Our Titan Arum started blooming on the Fourth of July!  Here is a live webcam link.  It emerged from its corm in Woods Greenhouse on June 1 and had reached a height of 7ft when it opened!  This is the first time this 8 year old plant has bloomed.  Native to the rainforests of Borneo, it was started from seed by Jonathan Ertelt and was part of the plant collection he arranged for us to receive from Vanderbilt.  Story of this co...

Happy Earth Day!   Latest issue of the Plant Press is out and in it Dr. Evans talks about what it is like teaching at Sewanee during the COVID-19 crisis.  Also, Mary Priestley reviews the history of Earth Day at Sewanee and Yolande Gottfried describes opportunities where you can view wildflowers on your own.  Normally the Herbarium staff would be busy this time of year leading walks in Shakerag and participating in Trails...

Looking for something fun to do with plants while you are sheltering in place.   Download Mary Priestley's wonderful new Virtual Natural Journal.  The following chapters are available:  Spring Wildflowers, Summer Wildflowers, Late Summer and Fall Wildflowers, and Wintertime.  Thank you Mary for putting this together!

The Herbarium Fellows were just getting acquainted with their new charges when they had to leave campus.  Thanks to Cade and George who watered over spring break.  Here are some pictures of plants that have been flowering recently in the Woods Lab Greenhouse for all to appreciate. 

Cade Sterling is our newest Herbarium Fellow.  Cade is a Biochemistry major and has been the student leader on the Sassafras spatial population genetics project that Jason Palagi and I started last summer.  We are fortunate that Cade was able wrap up most of his lab work on this project over spring break before the campus was closed to students in response to the COVID crisis.  Cade will be presenting work for this project in...

Dr. Evans represented Sewanee at the second meeting of Southeastern Partners in Plant Conservation (SePPCon) held at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, March 2-6, 2020.  The purpose of the meeting was to bring together government agencies, land managers, botanical gardens, university programs, and botanical experts to inform each other on best practices and topics relevant to rare plant conservation and form a cohesive network of r...

The second annual meeting of the Tennessee Plant Conservation Alliance (TPCA) was held at the Nashville Zoo on Febuary 11.  Dr. Evans continues to serve on the steering committee of the TPCA, which he helped to launch in 2017.  Mark Pistrang, botanist for the Cherokee National Forest, is show here giving a presentation in which he talks about the work of Shelby Meckstroth C'17.  As a Herbarium Graduate Fellow, Shelby assisted...

The Biology Department's Webb Greenhouse in Woods Lab is now home to a marvelous gift of over 200 species of tropical plants from the Vanderbilt University greenhouses formerly managed by Sewanee alum, Jonathan Ertelt.  Jonathan was tasked with redistributing the plants when it was announced by the Vanderbilt administration that the greenhouse space would be eliminated in the creation of new science research fac...

Sewanee Purple published an article about the history of the Sewanee Herbarium and the research students that have worked with Dr. Evans.  Article also gives the history of how Dr. Evans, as Director of the Landscape Analysis Lab at Sewanee, worked to promote the biological diversity of the Cumberland Plateau and end the conversion of native hardwood forests to pine plantations in the southeastern United States.

Sewanee's moon tree outside the Woods Greenhouse was featured the public television show Tennessee's Wildside.   Dr. Evans and the Herbarium Fellows were interviewed in the video.    See Cade Sterling at 6:32 and Sidnee Everhart at  6:50.