Information compiled by
Carol Ann McCormick (August 2005)
The University of North Carolina Herbarium has catalogued
about 50 specimens collected by Mildred Gant Stites
Reed. All were collected between 1933 and 1935, and most were co-collected
with her spouse, John Frederick Reed. Most specimens in the NCU collection
came as a gift from the Jesup Herbarium of
Dartmouth College in 2002.
Mildred Stites Reed
earned a M.S. degree Duke University in 1935. Her advisor was Dr. H. L. Blomquist, and her thesis was entitled “A taxonomic and
floristic study of the genus Cyperus in North America.”
Mildred Stites Reed
died in 1967, and was survived by spouse John F. Reed and sons John, Robert,
and James.
Publication:
Mildred Stites Reed
(1936) The genus Cyperus
in North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 52:
295-306.
