The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates only a handful of specimens collected by William Frederick Hinton, who always used “Fred Hinton” on his specimen labels. …
Mildred Gant Stites Reed
( 9 January 1912 – June 1967 )1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 60 specimens collected by Mildred Gant Stites Reed. All…
Alfred Cuthbert
(August 1857 – 1932) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has about a dozen specimens collected by Alfred Cuthbert. About half are from Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia,…
Welcome, new Herbarium students!
Five undergraduate students — some new, some returning — will be working in the Herbarium during the 2021-2022 academic year. In addition, throughout the year we will welcome undergraduate classes…
Weakley’s goldentop –– newly recognized, but of course, it’s been there all along!
by Guy Nesom, Ph.D. Research Associate, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The ‘weakley’ of Alan Weakley now also belongs with a species in the sunflower…
Hounds and Weevils: Herbaria in Pest Management and Conservation Research
by Carol Ann McCormick*, John Gaskin, Ph.D.#, and Mark Schwarzlaender, Ph.D. % In late May 2021, Suzanne Cadwell, all-around naturalist and avid contributor to iNaturalist, got a message from Dr….
Rebecca Ward Reynolds
(b. 2 October 1907 – 18 November 2001) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 20 vascular plant specimens and 11 bryophyte specimens collected by…
Eugène Poilane
(16 March 1888 – 30 April 1964) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates 19 fungal specimens and 3 vascular plant specimens collected by Eugène Poilane. As our…
John Lewis Sheldon
(10 November 1865 – 17 January 1947)8 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates few specimens collected by John Lewis Sheldon, who usually signed his labels…
Restoring Glade Blue Wild Indigo at Penny’s Bend
This week, Garden staff and interns joined Duke environmental management master’s student Lydie Costes at Penny’s Bend Nature Preserve to plant 750 seedlings of glade blue wild indigo (Baptisia aberrans)…