Carolina Moonlight Garden Party

“The Best Party in Town!” — Gail Perry, NCBGF Director and gala planning committee member Buy Tickets You are invited to dress in your best floral attire and join us…

Peggy-Ann Wetmore Kessler Duke

…identification of seedlings of some prominent woody species in eight forest types in Puerto Rico” (Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1965), included 182 of Peggy’s technical illustrations and reportedly…

Eloise Wicker Knight

…father, Rassie Everton Wicker, was also very interested in botany and deposited vascular plant specimens in NCU. Louisiana State University Herbarium (LSU) curates specimens collected by Eloise Wicker Knight. Eloise…

Plant Sales are Back!

…this time, we can only accept payment by check and by mail. Instructions will be included in your confirmation email. Pick up, plant, and enjoy! See the list of available…

Lisa Marie Giencke

…in the ecological restoration of San Clemente Island. San Clemente Island, the southernmost of the eight California Channel Islands. It lies 55 nautical miles (nm) south of Long Beach and…

Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!

for its 100th birthday it will get a name of its own.   For an example of a generic shift, Psilocybe cokeri Murrill, named in 1923 in honor of UNC-CH…

Abram Paschal Garber

…that it is impossible to read the inscriptions. The immediate family have all either died or removed to other parts the country, and, hence, his grave is thus neglected. It…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…Man’s Beard,” instead. It’s in the olive family! You can buy one at the Botanical Garden! I hope to have inspired at least a few acquaintances to Go Native.) Stewartia…

Rachel Milner Fell Treakle

…University to McCormick 27 October 2020. Illinois State Marriage Records. Online index. Illinois State Public Record Offices. . Ancestry.com. Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,…

Elizabeth Kathleen Goldie-Smith

…Goldie-Smith, who usually signed her labels as “E.K.G.S.” Our fungal collection is being cataloged into the searchable on-line database, www.mycoportal.org As we continue to catalog our fungi it is probable…