Belinda Jacob

9:10 – 10:15 am | Wednesdays, June 11, 18, and 25

Though mostly unknown in the 2020s, French botanist André Michaux spent eleven years in North America (1785-1796), studying the flora of the Carolinas and Georgia, Spanish Florida and the Bahamas, and distant Québec and unsettled Illinois Territory. Jefferson tapped him to find the source of the Missouri River, and his trek served as a dress rehearsal to the Lewis and Clark expedition. The peripatetic botanist whom no one has heard of introduced more than 700 plants to science.

Belinda Jacob is a scholar and cultivator of camel­lias, enjoying affiliations with the camellia group of the Bonaventure Historical Society and the Coastal Georgia Camellia Society. She lectures frequently on plants and horticultural history.