Stuck at Home, not Stuck Inside

…year! Did you know chickweed is edible? So are columbine flowers! Youngia japonica (oriental false hawksbeard) is in flower. The good news is this makes it easier to see and…

Wishlist

the Carolina Campus Community Garden if you have tools, seeds or other items that may be helpful to our community effort. All gift-in-kind contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and may…

APPLES interns grow in garden

…her internship, she was initially the satellite garden manager at Edible Campus, but COVID altered her internship experience. The first few weeks of her internship were completely online, and to…

New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…for the Herbarium. “It’s a small batch of interesting taxa, mostly things out of a personal herbarium I’ve kept over the years. I plan to distribute the rest of it…

James Arthur Doubles, Jr.

…Carolina at Chapel Hill in September, 1931. He earned an A.B. in Botany in 1935, then continued at Carolina to earn an M.A. in Botany in 1938 studying with Dr….

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…be found as our collection is catalogued. Bain’s specimens in NCU’s collection date from 1891-1893 and all were collected in Tennessee. NCU has an isotype of Helianthus verticillatus collected by…

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…Tyler J., Paul A. Knapp, and Jason T. Ortegren (2019) Tropical cyclone frequency inferred from intra-annual density fluctuations in longleaf pine in Florida, USA. Climate Research 78: 249-259. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01573  …

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…give courses in the sciences in Eagleville School, where he showed great proficiency and ingenuity in the construction and handling of apparatus in teaching chemistry and physics. In 1890 he…

Steven Worth Leonard

…While in Mississippi he completed a biological inventory of Camp Shelby Training Site. In 2006 Leonard described a new species of Witch-hazel, Hamamelis ovalis. (The holotype of this species is…