(b. 1937) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged to date about a dozen vascular plant specimens (mostly ferns from Virginia) and 140 bryophytes (mostly…
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Andrew Clark Mathews
(24 September 1907 – 23 June 1994) Information for this post originally compiled by Lisa Giencke in December 2005; updated by Carol Ann McCormick in 2020. Special thanks to Dennis…
George Shuford Ramseur
(b. 19 July 1926) Portrait of George S. Ramseur, 1965, courtesy of the William R. Laurie University Archives & Special Collections, The University of the South The University of North…
Following in Botanical Footsteps at Rocky Face Mountain
By Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium One of the few good aspects of the restrictions on school, social, and business activities this past spring has been that people…
Charles Edward Raynal
(17 March 1877 – 1 December 1944) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has about three dozen specimens collected by Charles Edward Raynal. All are vascular…
William Battle Cobb
(23 November 1891 – 22 November 1933) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 170 specimens collected by William Battle Cobb, who usually signed…
Herbarium Research Shows Lost Wildflower Grew Only in NC
Thanks to research in the UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium, part of the Garden, we now know that Appalachian Barbara’s buttons (Marshallia grandiflora) was a distinct species that grew just in Henderson…
Louis Hermann Pammel
(1862 – 1931) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 130 fungal specimens collected by Louis Pammel. All NCU’s fungal specimens, including those collected by Pammel,…
George Washington Carver
(1860’s – 5 January 1943) Listen to Well Said: George Washington Carver’s fungal specimens, a podcast produced in 2017 by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The University of…
Max Hoyt Hommersand
(10 July 1930 – 16 December 2022) Max H. Hommersand was born in San Diego County, California on 10 July 1930. He received his B. A. at the University of…