(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…
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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…
Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!
By Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, and Dr. Van Cotter, Herbarium Associate, UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates hundreds of thousands of botanical…
Sarah “Sadie” Frances Price
(1849-1903) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NCU) has cataloged ten vascular plant specimens and two fungal specimens collected by Sarah “Sadie” Frances Price. She usually signed her…
Abbé Auguste Barthelemy Langlois
(24 April 1832 – 31 July 1900) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has about a dozen vascular plant specimens collected by Abbé Langlois – all are from Louisiana…
Ruby Deaton Harbison Pharr
30 September 1929 – 8 March 2015 (1) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 50 specimens collected by Ruby Deaton Harbison Pharr. Most…