Carnivorous Conservation

…Carl Linnaeus, a famous 18th-century botanist who developed the modern method of assigning species scientific names, dubbed flytraps “against the order of nature as willed by God.” But Charles Darwin…

George Andrew Christenberry

(3 September 1915 – 21 April 2009) Photo: Augusta College Yearbook, 1978 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates 36 specimens collected by George Andrew Christenberry,…

John R. Bozeman

…tree. Tipularia (November 1986): 9. SOURCES 1. Radford, Laurie Stewart. 1998. The history of the Herbarium of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 1908-1998. Chapel Hill: The…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…Year Award; 1976, Education Conservationist of the Year by South Carolina Wildlife Federation; 1982, Order of the Palmetto Award presented by Governor Richard Riley who hosted his Retirement Party at…

New boardwalk open at Mason Farm

We’re thrilled to announce the completion of a 450-foot boardwalk at Mason Farm Biological Reserve that enables visitors to again travel the full 1.8-mile Old Farm Trail. Mason Farm Biological…

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. 1929 Pine Needles, yearbook of the North…

Carol Enarson, CCCG, Master Gardener

…Gardener course at the Orange County Extension Office in Hillsborough in order to expand her knowledge relating to horticulture. Enarson explained that by becoming an Orange County Extension Master Gardener…

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…As a sand stabilizer, American Beach-grass is known for its extensive rhizome system that links plants and holds sand from readily drifting.”2 Carol Ann McCormick admiring a clump of sugarcane…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…F. Whigham, and John P. O’Neill. 2012. Limitations on orchid recruitment: not a simple picture. Molecular Ecology 21: 1511-1523. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05468.x https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2012_mccormick001.pdf Top photo: Aplectrum hyemale by Alan M. Cressler…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

(12 June 1899 – 10 March 1991)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 90 vascular plant specimens collected or co-collected by Egbert Hamilton Walker,…