(24 August 1918 – 26 September 2012) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 70 vascular plant specimens collected by Philip French-Carson Greear, though as…
Josiah Hale
(1791 ? -1856) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has less than a dozen specimens collected by Josiah Hale. All found to date were a gift from…
Carolina Community Garden Food Scraps Find New Home
We’re delighted to have a new outlet for veggie scraps from our Carolina Community Garden: the pigs at the Chapel Hill Creamery farm (and soon, pigs from Small Potatoes Farm…
Ken E. Rogers
(ca. 1936 – 2017) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged over 1,000 vascular plant specimens collected by Kenneth Edward Rogers. He usually used “Ken E….
Richard J. LeBlond
(b. 19 July 1941) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has accessioned over 1,100 specimens collected by Richard J. LeBlond and it continues to be the…
Samuel B. Jones, Jr.
18 December 1933 – 9 February 2016 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 750 vascular specimens for which he was the primary collector. …
Carolina Moonlight Virtual Party May 22
The North Carolina Botanical Garden is making final preparations for its Carolina Moonlight Virtual Party, an entertaining celebration of the region’s biodiversity with a focus on carnivorous plants on Saturday, May 22 from 7 – 8:30 p.m. Derek Haynes (The Crazy Botanist) will join Garden Director, Damon Waitt, as a co-host of this year’s program.
Restoring the Rare Sensitive Jointvetch
Our conservation department is growing sensitive jointvetch (Aeschynomene virginica) for restoration at Lake Mattamuskeet, in cooperation with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This wildflower is a Federally Threatened member of the pea family that occurs in fresh and brackish tidal marshes from New Jersey down to North Carolina.
Henry Roland Totten
(1892-1974) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates over 1500 vascular plants, 1400 fungi and 20 bryophytes collected by Henry Roland Totten, who usually signed his…
New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium
By Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium A few weeks ago, Herbarium director Alan Weakley and I received an email from a colleague in Virginia offering some plant specimens…