The Petersburg Garden Club

Name

The Petersburg Garden Club

Herbarium Code

PGC

Current Status

Active

Correspondents

Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, jwoody@lewisginter.org

Contact

[1] 804 262 9887 ext. 332
Fax: [1] 804 262 0048
Email: janetw@lewisginter.org

Address

Petersburg Garden Club Lee Park Herbarium
The Petersburg Garden Club
1800 Lakeside Ave.
Richmond, Virginia 23228
U.S.A.
www.leeparkpetersburg.org

Specialty

Taxonomic Coverage: Wildflowers

Geography: Virginia

Notes

Updated Feb 2016. The Lee Park Herbarium was begun in 1937 as part of a WPA project to create a wildflower sanctuary. In addition to clearing land and planting native plants, the WPA workers were taught to collect and preserve specimens. This part of the collection comprises 325 specimens; collection ended about 1940. In the 1990s, Donna M.E. Ware, botanist at the College of William and Mary, began collecting in Lee Park anew. Her goal was to determine if the original 325 species still grew there, and then expanded her project to collect other plants in the Park and watershed. The Ware portion of the herbariam comprises 800 specimens and collection continues on this portion. The herbarium collection includes 238 corresponding watercolors exquisitely painted by Bessie Neimeyer Marshall during the depression era in the 1930’s. The botanical renderings are showcased in With Paintbrush and Shovel: Preserving Virginia’s Wildflowers.

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