Michel Georges Desire Lelong

…developments and habitat destruction of today’s time took place. He made the most of this opportunity by doing what he loved, exploring, collecting, and building the herbarium he established at…

William Chambers Coker

…a diverse group of plants that today comprises approximately 12,000 species and plays a major role in terrestrial ecosystems. Pteridophytes were even more important in the past, especially before the…

Display Gardens

…year round. Carnivorous Plant Collection The southeastern US is home to the world’s most diverse collection of insect-eating plants. Inside these raised beds, you will find insectivorous plants like sundews,…

Edward Willis Graves

…4. Ancestry.com World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Serive…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…gift of specimens from The Natural History Museum (BM) in London, United Kingdom in 2009; most of the specimens in that gift were collected by Ferdinand Rugel. Other herbaria in…

Elbert Thomas Bartholomew

…by his colleagues, lunched daily in the open sunlit patio of the “Main Building” where there was animated conversation, among fellow scientists and visitors alike, concerning plant and world problems….

Philip French-Carson Greear

…married on June 4, 1943. While Philip was in military training, they moved their residency to Helen, Georgia, to be near his parents. Philip was stationed in Japan post World

Walter Lane Barksdale

…the university records as having completed his graduate studies in 1941. Barksdale served in the United States military during World War II. He joined the United States Army in 1941…

The BGF Gets a New Name

…country to support a public garden, so a more descriptive name may have been deemed unnecessary at that time. But starting in the 1990s, the outside world started to change….