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…

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…

Josiah Hale

…Sagittaria calycina maxima Engelm. collected in Louisiana is the type specimen. Jared G. Smith re-named it Lophotocarpus calycinus in 1900 (6). Josiah Hale was also interested in cryptogams (7). He…

Louis Hermann Pammel

…Ecology 10(2): 251-256. Pammel, Louis H. and Charlotte M. King (1930?) Honey Plants of Iowa. Iowa Geological Survey [incomplete citation]   Sources: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~isu150/history/pammel.htmlaccessed on 19 July 2017. 2. http://www.waysofenlichenment.net/lichens/Bacidia%20coprodes accessed…

New Species of Foamflower

…home using its Latin name, which means “little crown.” Others would call it “foamflower.” It’s easy to recognize and a beautiful plant growing in beautiful places. Perhaps fewer know that…

Budd Elmon Smith

…support. New recruitment strategies were implemented that aimed to increase the student body from its tenuous level of about 400. In 1955, Dr. Smith interested Mr. Charles A. Cannon of…

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…