The University of North Carolina Herbarium
is Misty Franklin Buchanan’s primary repository for specimens collected for
her work with the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program. Thus far, she has deposited approximately
230 specimens at NCU.
Misty Franklin was born in an elevator in
Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1975, moved to Marion, NC at age 8, and graduated
from high school at NC School of Science and Math in Durham in 1993. She
graduated from Smith College with a major in Biology in 1997 and later
received a M.S. in Botany from NC State University. Her M.S. research focused
on the pollination ecology of the endangered plant Lysimachia
asperulifolia, with field work at the Croatan National Forest, Camp Lejeune,
and the Green Swamp.
She is currently a botanist for the Natural Heritage Program, where she
studies rare flora across the state and surveys natural areas. She serves on
the boards of the NC Exotic Pest Plant Council, the NC Native Plant Society,
and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the NC Plant
Conservation Program.
