by Bryan England Preserve Manager, Annie Louise Wilkerson, MD Nature Preserve Park In the summer of 2021, the UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium received an unexpected specimen, a rare native wildflower…
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Duane Francis Houck
(February 9, 1929 — July 21, 2003) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 170 specimens collected by Duane F. Houck. His specimens are…
John Adolph Shafer
(February 23, 1863 – February 1, 1918)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 20 vascular plant specimens collected by John Adolph Shafer,…
Henry Ashby Rankin
(15 June 1872 – 21 June 1947) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has, to date, cataloged about 50 specimens collected by Henry Ashby Rankin. He typically signed…
Paul Otto Schallert
(5 March 1879 – January 1970) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 170 vascular plant specimens, 100 lichen specimens, and 140 moss specimens , and…
William Frederick Hinton
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates only a handful of specimens collected by William Frederick Hinton, who always used “Fred Hinton” on his specimen labels. …
Mildred Gant Stites Reed
( 9 January 1912 – June 1967 )1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 60 specimens collected by Mildred Gant Stites Reed. All…
Alfred Cuthbert
(August 1857 – 1932) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has about a dozen specimens collected by Alfred Cuthbert. About half are from Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia,…
Welcome, new Herbarium students!
Five undergraduate students — some new, some returning — will be working in the Herbarium during the 2021-2022 academic year. In addition, throughout the year we will welcome undergraduate classes…
Weakley’s goldentop –– newly recognized, but of course, it’s been there all along!
by Guy Nesom, Ph.D. Research Associate, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The ‘weakley’ of Alan Weakley now also belongs with a species in the sunflower…