The University of North Carolina
Herbarium
A Department of the North Carolina Botanical Garden

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The University of North Carolina Herbarium (NCU) is Bruce Sorrie's primary repository for specimens that he has collected for the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program and other botanical projects throughout the Southeastern United States. With approximately 10% of the specimens in the Herbarium databased, we have catalogued approximately 3,300 of Sorrie's specimens.
Other herbaria that hold Sorrie's botanical specimens include GH, US, FSU, AUA, NCSC, DUKE, MISS, and DOV.

Bruce Sorrie was born in Andover, Massachusetts 11 July 1944, graduated from Phillips Academy 1963, and Cornell University 1967 with a B.S in Vertebrate Zoology. After military service as a photographer and various positions as an ornithologist, it became clear that my deepening interest in plants was pointing towards a career in botany.

In 1979 I accepted a position as Botanist with the Natural Heritage Program in Boston, Massachusetts and remained there for 12 years, studying the rare flora of that state. In 1999 a colleague and I published the first complete catalogue of the flora of Massachusetts. Increasing interest in the flora of the southeastern U.S. coastal plain led to a move to North Carolina in 1991. Through natural area inventories and rare species surveys, I have studied coastal plain phytogeography from Virginia to Texas, primarily within the longleaf pine ecosystem. North Carolina natural areas inventoried include Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall (US Army), Sandhills Game Land, Holly Shelter Game Land, plus Richmond, Cumberland, and Hoke Counties.

Selected publications:

Sorrie, Bruce A. and Alan S. Weakley. 2007. Notes on the Gaylussacia dumosa complex (Ericaceae). Journal of the Botanical Research Insitute of Texas 1 (1): 333-344.

Sorrie, Bruce A., Brian R. Keener, and Adrienne L. Edwards. 2007. Reinstatement of Sagittaria macrocarpa (Alismataceae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1 (1): 345-350.

Sorrie, Bruce A. and Alan S. Weakley. 2007. Notes on Lechea maritima var. virginica (Cistaceae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1 (1): 367-368.

Sorrie, Bruce A. and Alan S. Weakley. 2007. Recognition of Lechea pulchella var. ramosissima (Cistaceae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1 (1): 369-372.

LeBlond, Richard J., Edward E. Schilling, Richard D. Porcher, Bruce A. Sorrie, John F. Townsend, Patrick D. McMillan and Alan S. Weakley. 2007. Eupatorium paludicola, sp. nov. (Asteraceae): A new species form the coastal plain of North and South Carolina. Rhodora 109 (938): 137-177.

Schilling, Edward E. , Richard J. LeBlond, Bruce A. Sorrie and Alan S. Weakley. 2007. Relationships of the New England Boneset, Eupatorium novae-angliae (Asteraceae). Rhodora 109 (938): 145-160.

Sorrie, Bruce A. 2005. Alien vascular plants in Massachusetts. Rhodora 107 (931): 284-329.

Sorrie, Bruce A. 2004. The status of rare vascular plants that bear Michaux's name. Castanea Occasional Papers 2: 158-168.

LeBlond, R. J. and B. A. Sorrie. 2003. Status survey for Thorne’s beaksedge (Rhynchospora thornei Kral). Report to North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, Raleigh, and to Endangered Species Office, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Raleigh, NC.

MacRoberts, M. H., B. R. MacRoberts, B.A. Sorrie, and R. E. Evans. 2002. Endemism in the west Gulf Coastal Plain: importance of xeric habitats. Sida 20: 767-780.

LeBlond, R. J. and B. A. Sorrie. 2002. Status survey for Carolina bog-mint (Macbridea carolinaina (Walter) Blake). Report to North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, Raleigh, and to Endangered Species Office, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Raleigh, NC.

Skinner, M. W. and B. A. Sorrie. 2002. Lilium pyrophilum M. Skinner & B. Sorrie, a new species in Liliaceae from the Sandhills of the Carolinas and Virginia. Novon 12: 94-105.

McMillan, P.D., R. K. Peet, R. D. Porcher, and B. A. Sorrie. 2002. Noteworthy botanical collections from the fire-maintained pineland and wetland communities of the coastal plain of the Carolinas and Georgia. Castanea 67: 61-83.

LeBlond, R. J. and B. A. Sorrie. 2001. Additions to and noteworthy records for the flora of the coastal plain of North Carolina. Castanea: 66: 288-302.

Sorrie, B. A. and A. S. Weakley. 2001. Coastal plain vascular plant endemics: phytogeographic patterns. Castanea 66: 50-82.

Sorrie, B. A. 2000. Status survey for southern three-awned grass (Aristida simpliciflora) in Florida. Report to Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee.

Sorrie, B. A. 2000. Rhynchospora leptocarpa (Cyperaceae), an overlooked species of the southeastern United States. Sida 19: 139-147.

Sorrie, B. A. and S. W. Leonard. 1999. Noteworthy records of Mississippi vascular plants. Sida 18: 889-908.

Kral, R. and B. A. Sorrie. 1998. Proposal to conserve the name Eriocaulon lineare (Eriocaulaceae) with a conserved type. Taxon 47: 741-742.

Sorrie, B. A. 1998. Distribution of Drosera filiformis and D. tracyi (Droseraceae): phytogeographic implications. Rhodora 100: 239-260.

Sorrie, B. A. 1998. Noteworthy collections from Georgia. Castanea 63: 496-500.

Sorrie, B. A., B. Van Eerden, and M. J. Russo. 1997. Noteworthy plants from Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall, North Carolina. Castanea 62: 239-259.

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University of North Carolina Herbarium
CB# 3280, Coker Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
phone: (919) 962-6931
fax: (919) 962-6930
email: herbarium@bio.unc.edu  

Last Updated: 7 June 2006