George Bowyer Rossbach
…George B. Rossbach. No doubt many more specimens collected by him will be found as we continue to catalog our collections. Though Rossbach collected worldwide, most specimens curated by NCU…
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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…
Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler
…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…
New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium
…a fold of newsprint, with a label tucked in with the plant. There were 35 plants in all; the collection of Carex cristatella, “crested sedge,” had enough material for two…
North Carolina Wildflower Week
…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…
Celebrating 20 Years: Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
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…
The Story of the Streamhead Lobelia, Lobelia batsonii
…“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…
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…
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…
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…