Walking with Walter and William

…genera. Today, 88 of these species and one genus (Amsonia) still bear the valid names provided by Walter in his Flora. Walter died on 17 January 1789, shortly after the…

Don Edgar Eyles

…in Atlanta, Georgia, and consisting of parents Francis L. (age 37), Mory A. (35), Francis L. (11), Don E. (4), and Ruth (1 month). “In 1937 [Fort Pulaski National Monument…

Richard Halsted Ward

…the American Medical Association, and was a delegate to the International Congress, held in London in 1881. Several of his papers on medical subjects have been published in the transactions…

Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill

…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…

Gerald McCarthy

…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…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…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…

Joseph Austin Holmes

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,…

Amos Jones “AJ” Bullard

…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”…

Botanical Art Fundamentals Program

…the natural world Have an understanding of the botany of the native plants of the southeastern U.S. as a foundation for accurate botanical representation Enroll Today Jump to: ➢ Program…