Spring Native Plant Sale on May 7

…local conservation organizations in Reeves Auditorium. The organizations include the New Hope Audubon Society, the North Carolina Native Plant Society, the Orange County Master Gardener program. NCBG corporate sponsors Leaf…

March Madness: Botanical Sports Mascots

…Zealand flags: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Zealand Delta State University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_State_University Scottsdale Community College: https://www.scottsdalecc.edu/students/student-experience-leadership/mascot Minor League Baseball team names: https://www.milb.com/about/teams Hillsboro Hops: https://www.milb.com/hillsboro/fans/information Modesto Nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesto_Nuts Indiana State University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_State_Sycamores ; https://www.indstate.edu/university-marketing/brand-toolbox/logos University…

The Paper Garden

…native plants found in North Carolina, including pitcher plants, trout lilies, and Venus flytraps. She is a student in NCBG’s Botanical Art & Illustration program, which helps her strengthen her…

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…

Carroll Emory Wood, Jr.

…in the Salem, Virginia school system.”2 Carroll Emory Wood, Jr. earned Bachelor of Science degree from Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia in 1941.1 “During college Carroll had a strong interest…

Virtual Webinar – Pine Tree Pharmacy

…Mr. Arvis Boughman will discuss plants and herbal remedies, including those of the longleaf pine ecosystem, that members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina have used for centuries in…

Ellsworth Bethel

…University fungi CHRB Rutgers University fungi BPI United States National Fungi Collection fungi ARIZ University of Arizona fungi UBC University of British Columbia fungi UC University of California, Berkeley fungi,…

Charles Clinton Lindley, Jr.

…Inc., 2012. http://woodlin.net/merged%20pedigree/3533.htm?fbclid=IwAR2plHtxLudWw3LCpYAGy3hn7nJv_h-kTXIKaLwQiN5zSdJXydyDXWD0Af8 accessed on 14 September 2020. Yackety yack, 1954. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (College yearbook; page 86.)   Many thanks to Terri Buckner and to…

Richard J. LeBlond

…12(1): 58-59. LeBlond, R. J. (2018) Coleataenia longifolia subsp. combsii (Poaceae: Paniceae) in Canada. In: Weakley et al., Taxonomic innovations in the southeastern U.S. flora. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas…

Josiah Hale

…senis, subconvexis; aperture magna, subovata, intus albida. Hab. Alexandria, Lou. – J. Hale, M.D. Paludina Haleiana. Testa laevi, ventricoso-conoidea, subtenui, rufo cornea, imperforate, spira brevi; suturis valde impressis; anfractibus quaternis,…