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by R. Haven Wiley, Ph.D. Biology Department (retired), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Orchids are more than just flowers! In fact, most of them don’t have flowers to which most people would give a second look. Some have flowers so inconspicuous that they almost never get even a first look. But the other…
by Van Cotter, Herbarium Research Associate, UNC-CH Herbarium (NCU); Suzanne Cadwell, Director, ITS-Educational Technologies; Dan Meyers, Corbin Bryan, and Davis Upchurch, Undergraduates UNC-CH On April 17-18, the North Carolina Botanical Garden is co-hosting the annual Mid-Atlantic States Mycology Conference (MASMC) along with the UNC-CH Herbarium (NCU) and the UNC-CH Biology Department. Due to continued pandemic…
by Van Cotter, Herbarium Research Associate, UNC at CH Herbarium (NCU) and John S. Gibbs, Willow Spring, North Carolina Thanks to the dedicated mycological exploration by the junior author, who is 13 years old and has an avid interest in mycology, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) now has the first…
If you visit our display gardens in the next few months, you’ll notice some construction underway. We’re making improvements to the main entrance walkway from our parking lot down to the Allen Education Center. Both the walkway and breezeway will be paved, stone seating will be installed, and more.
On November 17th, Ken Moore led a field trip of North Carolina Botanical Garden tour guides and a few community members to the Jesse Mason Cemetery, just within the boundary of the Chatham County line near its intersection with Orange, Durham, and Wake Counties.
Dan Meyers, a senior biology major and the Mary McKee Felton Intern at the Herbarium, was inducted in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most honored college honorary society. Fewer than 1% of college students qualify.
Since the mid 1990s, references have been made to an undescribed lobelia in the Sandhills region of North and South Carolina. Albert B. Pittman of the South Carolina Heritage Trust was first to note that this lobelia was very similar to savanna lobelia (Lobelia glandulosa Walter) but differed in several points.
American beautyberry Callicarpa americana Once again, we are bending the definition of a wildflower to offer American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) as our 2021 Wildflower of the Year. This deciduous understory shrub is native to woodlands, open forests, and disturbed areas throughout the central and southeastern United States. Beautyberry has pale green leaves along graceful…
New plants, animals and fungi are not only found in far-away exotic locations. The Carolina campus might be a surprising place to find an fungus never before documented from North Carolina, but recently a Carolina Biology major did just that.
The southeastern United States is home to incredible biodiversity, and new plants are discovered in this area every year. Plant lists for this region, or Flora, evolve and change, making the most recent edition vital for professionals working in conservation and natural resources management. On the cutting edge of the research to identify plants and their ranges are herbaria. Herbaria are collections of…