…gold rush of 1849. By the 1830s, gold Hairy rubber cup fungi (Galiella rufa) on Uwharrie Trail near Little Long Mountain, Uwharrie National Forest prospectors and miners had moved into…
…in Lake Geneva called Horticultural Hall where gardeners from the lakeshore and local farmers would bring their produce and flowers to market. He also helped to form the Lake Geneva…
Photo by Matthew Westmoreland for UNC Research 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP), the largest ex situ plant conservation effort in the world. Led…
…local natural area, donate to support plant conservation or start your own wildflower garden, anyone can support and observe North Carolina Wildflower Week. Staff Wildflower Favorites We’re excited to share…
…“the new lobelia is close to L. glandulosa which is distinctly hirsute [hairy] in the throat of the corolla…the new species completely lacks hairs inside the flower.” When the news…
…one with the surname of “Cave” or “Caves” — but that did not rule out that these hypothetical troglodytes lived in rural Orange County or Durham County. Neither of these…
…found in US. Blue Ridge Three-lobed Coneflower, Rudbeckia rupestris Chick. was published in 1881 in Coult. Bot. Gaz.vi: 188. This plant is found in Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, and…
…high-road and byway, bog and mountain peak, ever on the look-out for floral strangers, whom they ruthlessly sacrifice to the glue-and-paper deity.” — Gerald McCarthy The University of North Carolina…
…Today, selected specimens of North Carolina plants collected by Holmes are archived at the UNC Herbarium, examples being Lycopodium alopecuroides (L.) Cranfill and Woodwardia areolata, both collected in Duplin County,…
…Calypso, North Carolina. He wrote a weekly column, “Botany with Bullard” for the Mount Olive Messenger published by the Goldsboro News-Argus. “Lived to learn it!“, one of Ken Moore’s “Flora”…