Eloise Wicker Knight

…(b. 1919), who earned his degree in Pharmacy from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1951. The Knights had two sons and one daughter: Alan Wicker Knight (b. 1958), Kevin Richard Knight, and…

William Wirt Calkins

…Lucy V. born 1859 and Jennie born 1862. Both had the surname Calkins, so perhaps were adopted by Calkins after marrying their mother.) William Wirt Calkins, Louisa Hossack Calkins, and…

Richard Joel Reader

…of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reader earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. He then earned a Master of…

Mordecai Elisha Hyams

…Society 117(4): 240-248.   ——————————————————————————————- Selected Publications Authored by Mordecai Elisha Hyams Hyams, M.E. (1885) A preliminary list of additions to Curtis’ catalogue of indigenous and naturalized plants of North…

Elam T. Bartholomew

…classify flowering plants. By 1885 he had in his herbarium a specimen of every phanerogam [flowering plant] growing in that part of the state. As head of a rapidly enlarging…

Therapeutic Horticulture

…We have also developed an Online Certificate in Therapeutic Horticulture for students who need the flexibility to take classes at the pace, timing, and location of their choosing. The online

New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…to locate potentially special habitats and plant communities. The advent of SERNEC.org and other online herbarium databases has opened up many new possibilities for these kinds of research and made…

Steven Worth Leonard

…Plant of the Week: Big-leaf witch-hazel (Hamamelis ovalis). https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/hamamelis_ovalis.shtml accessed on 20 February 2021. Obituary: Steven Worth Leonard. The Lexington Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina. Posted online 18 August, 2022. https://www.the-dispatch.com/obituaries/plex0281187…