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Category: UNC Herbarium
Mary Williams Ward Shanor
22 April 1916 – 19 September 2011 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 20 vascular plant specimens and three fungal specimens collected by…
Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium
By Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, UNC Herbarium In January, I got a phone call asking if the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) could curate tree cores…
Lewis Henry Lighthipe
24 January 1843 — 14 December 1927 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 60 specimens collected by Lewis Henry Lighthipe. Of those, about 2/3…
Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott
14 April 1903 – 18 May 1955 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has about 20 plant specimens collected by Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott. Most specimens…
When Hairy Met the Herbarium
Genea hispidula, a tiny truffle, an Exciting Discovery in Battle Park! By Van T. Cotter, Dan Meyers, Ezra Knight, and Corbin Bryan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium…
Thomas Fanning Wood
(1841 — 1892) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has found only a handful of Wood’s specimens in our collection. All specimens were collected in 1885…
Charles Wright
(29 October 1811 – 11 August 1885) “As a careful and indefatigable explorer and collector, and also an acute observer, he merits the highest praise,and will be long and honorably…
Raymond Louis Wyatt
(b. 23 November 1926) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium has cataloged about 40 vascular plant specimens collected by Raymond Louis Wyatt, who usually signed his labels…
Lawson Edwin Yocum
(10 August 1890 – 23 February 1977)1 In 2018 the University of North Carolina at Greensboro gave the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium several hundred herbarium specimens. We are still…