Seeds of Discord: How Asa Gray’s Exit Bloomed Into Botanical Greatness

Asa Gray, circa 1870s

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 10, 1838 On this day, dear readers, the esteemed botanist Asa Gray resigned from the Wilkes Expedition, a decision that would alter the course of American botanical history as surely as a…

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