As one of the largest herbaria in the southeastern United States, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) loans thousands of specimens to researchers around the world…
Category: UNC Herbarium
Charles “Chuck” Lewis McCartney, Jr.

(25 April 1947 – 11 October 2020) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 61 vascular plant specimens collected by Charles “Chuck” Lewis McCartney, Jr. …
Rachel Milner Fell Treakle
(6 April 1856 – 14 March 1938) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 10 fungal specimens collected by Rachel Milner Fell. NCU seems to…
Diane Elizbeth Wickland

(b. ca. 1951) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates well over 800 vascular plant specimens collected by Diane E. Wickland. Many were collected as vouchers…
William Chambers Coker

(1872-1953) The botanist who gave his name to one of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s biology buildings and its arboretum was born in Hartsville, South Carolina on October…
Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler

(7 November 1876 – ca. 24 August 1956) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 25 specimens collected by Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler, who went by “Cloyd”…
Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery

26 October 1911 – 8 August 1994 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has 15 specimens collected by Laura Jarrett. All came to NCU as part…
2020 Edition: Flora of the Southeastern United States

The Flora covers the biogeographic region of the moist, relictual, unglaciated southeastern North America: south of the glacial boundary and east of the “dry line” to the west that marks…
Nathan Barrows

(20 February 1830 – 3 March 1900) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 35 vascular plants collected by Nathan Barrows, who signed his herbarium…
Charles Henry Hitchcock

(1836-1919) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 68 vascular plant specimens collected by Charles Henry Hitchcock. Most are from Florida, with a few from…