(1924-1981) Harry Ahles was among the last botanists to gain his position through pure knowledge of plants rather than through the usual system of academic advancement. He gained his first…
Harry E. Ahles
Category: UNC Herbarium
Donald Culross Peattie
(1898 – 1964) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 900 vascular plants, a dozen fungal specimens, and one lichen specimen collected by Donald…
Wendell P. Smith
(17 Sept 1892 – 11 April 1980) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 140 vascular plant specimens collected Wendell P. Smith. All were…
Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale
25 October 1916 – 5 July 1981 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates very few specimens collected by Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale. Our vascular plant…
Robert M. Downs
27 October 1935 – 12 November 2011 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged more than 2,200 specimens collected by Robert Marshall Downs. As we…
Rose Lorraine Peifer
b. 1993 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 60 specimens collected by Rose Peifer. She and co-collectors Mark Peifer, Lillian McCormick, and Carol…
Just when you think you know some plant…
By Derick B. Poindexter, Postdoctoral Plant Systematics Researcher, UNC Herbarium Relationships can be a fickle thing. You spend a tremendous amount of time building an understanding of what constitutes…
Madeline Palmer Burbanck
(27 October 1914 – 1 January 2007)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about a dozen vascular plant specimens collected by Madeline Palmer Burbanck. …
Florence Isobel Montgomery Givens
(19 April 1933 – 15 November 1990) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 25 vascular plant specimens collected by Florence Montgomery Givens. All specimens…
Anne Elizabeth Bowden McCrary
(25 October 1926 – 7 November 2011) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 120 vascular plant specimens and two bryophyte specimens collected by…