Saving Our Savannas Resources

…NCBG Herbarium   News Articles & Stories Longleaf Pine Restoration—a Major Climate Effort in the South—Curbs Its Ambitions to Meet Harsh Realities Marianne Lavelle, and Sarah Whites-Koditschek and Dennis Pillion…

Miklos Treiber

…http://www.sossomanfh.com/obituary/5913-dr-miklos-treiber accessed on 2 April 2020. 2. Chang, Julien. 2011. After 4o years, bookstore’s story near the end. The News Herald, 3 Feb. 2011. https://www.morganton.com/news/after-years-bookstore-s-story-nears-the-end/article_be05eb4e-ec68-5ef1-96ec-a47148e45502.html accessed on 2 April 2020….

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…speech entitled “The Present Devotedness of Genius to the Amusement of the World.”8 In the autumn of 1827 he moved to Claiborne, Alabama ** and worked as a private teacher….

Leva Belle Walker

…University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1946. Following [World War II], Dean C. H. Oldfather recommended the Chancellor and the Board of Regents of the University place both Elda and Leva on…

Jumping the Gap with Northern Wireweed

…the gap between states. Ruth’s golden-aster (Pityopsis ruthii in the Aster Family) has been documented from southeastern Tennessee, but never found in neighboring North Carolina. Dwarf greenbriar (Smilax pumila in…

Peggy-Ann Wetmore Kessler Duke

…Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, UNC, and the USDA. She was a part-time staff illustrator at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. In 1989, she held a…

Anne Elizabeth Bowden McCrary

rutilus (Coquillett). M.A. Thesis, Zoology Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. SOURCES: 1. Steelman, Ben. November 8, 2011. Wilmington naturalist McCrary leaves local legacy. StarNews Online. https://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20111108/wilmington-naturalist-mccrary-leaves-local-legacy accessed…

Haru (Francia) Chisaki Hommersand

…to see one of the world’s largest and rarest eagles, a Steller’s sea eagle. She hiked and searched for plants wherever she was, and loved the Chapel Hill botanical garden….

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…says Scott Ward, research botanist at NCBG. “Many of us in the botanical world have taken little time to learn the various ecologies, habitat requirements, and tedious scale architectures of…