Information
compiled by Carol Ann McCormick, March 2007
The University of North Carolina Herbarium has
catalogued approximately 50 specimens that were collected by Steve Furr, and
many others that were annotated by him as part of his doctoral work. As
cataloguing of the collection continues, more will be found. Most of Furr's
specimens in NCU's collection date from 1966 - 1969 and are from the
mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia.
Steve Furr was born in Stanly County, North
Carolina and received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Pfeiffer
University (Misenheimer, NC). He earned an M.S. in genetics from North
Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) in 1966, and a Ph.D. in botany from
the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN) in 1971. The title of his Ph.D.
thesis was "A biosystematic study of the subsections Villosae and
Micranthae of the genus Heuchera from the southeastern United
States."
Furr taught at Missouri Valley College for two
years (1969 - 1971). From 1971 until his retirement in 2000 he taught at Lake
Superior State University in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. At LSSU he taught
Botany, Field Botany, Environmental Biology, and supervised many
undergraduate projects in floristics. He did several floristic surveys for
the United States Forest Service and is an expert in the flora of Northern
Michigan.
PUBLICATIONS (incomplete list):
Furr, Richard Steven (1966)
Interspecific incompatibility in Rumex
crosses involving females of dioecious species. North
Carolina State University. [incomplete citation]
