Dr. Dennis J. Werner

J.C. Raulston Distinguished Professor
Director, JC Raulston Arboretum

JC Raulston Arboretum
Department of Horticultural Science
Box 7522
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7522

Office Phone: 919.513.7006
Fax: 919.515.5361
E-Mail: dennis_werner@ncsu.edu

Teaching responsibilities in plant propagation, herbaceous perennials, and breeding asexually propagated crops. Research focuses on breeding of peach, and herbaceous and woody ornamentals. Efforts in peach have focused on development of late-flowering and late-ripening cultivars.

Efforts in ornamental taxa have focused on breeding and genetic studies in Stokesia, Cercis, Buddleia, Clethra, and Berberis. Current efforts are focused on the following traits in these genera: Stokesia (flower color, plant architecture), Cercis (leaf variegation, leaf and flower color, weeping growth habit), Buddleia (flower color, inflorescence morphology, compact growth habit, leaf color), Clethra (compact growth habit, flower color), and Berberis (leaf color, spinelessness).

Germplasm released