This is the category for research related posts from the herbarium and conservation.
The GO-TO GUIDE forWildflower Hunting in Your State Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast describes and illustrates 1,250 species commonly encountered in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Washington D.C.,…
By Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, UNC Herbarium. On a recent Sunday in late March, my husband and I left a neighborhood potluck and headed to RDU for Mark’s 3 p.m….
This month’s shout out is Emma Wilson, the 2018-19 Fred and Virginia Houk Sustainability Intern! Emma has helped to keep the Garden on track with sustainability goals and has jumped…
Hannah Medford, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Class of 2019 majoring in Biology and English, is the Charles T. Mohr Intern in the University of North Carolina Herbarium…
Dan Meyers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill class of 2021, is majoring in Quantitative Biology, and minoring in Chemistry & Entrepreneurship. He is from Holly Springs, Wake County,…
Now that there is safe passage for pedestrians at the Old Mason Farm Rd./Fordham Blvd. intersection in Chapel Hill, we invite you to experience the Campus-to-Garden Trail through our Coker…
by Carol Ann McCormick, Herbarium Curator While Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill may experience… ahem… friendly competition during March Madness on basketball courts, the staff of the Sarah P. Duke…
It seems I am overdue in describing the many exciting goings-on at the UNC Herbarium—so let me remedy that situation with this letter! As I write, on May 12th, the…
By Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, University of North Carolina Herbarium My daughters claim there are no famous botanists. I have tried to refute this claim, but never to their satisfaction….