(1924-1981) Harry Ahles was among the last botanists to gain his position through pure knowledge of plants rather than through the usual system of academic advancement. He gained his first…
Donald Culross Peattie
(1898 – 1964) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 900 vascular plants, a dozen fungal specimens, and one lichen specimen collected by Donald…
Oliver Myles Freeman
(16 July 1891 – 13 February 1979 ) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates over 800 specimens collected by Oliver Myles Freeman. As our collection continues…
Wendell P. Smith
(17 Sept 1892 – 11 April 1980) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 140 vascular plant specimens collected Wendell P. Smith. All were…
Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale
(25 October 1916 – 5 July 1981) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates very few specimens collected by Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale. Our vascular plant…
Robert M. Downs
27 October 1935 – 12 November 2011 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged more than 2,200 specimens collected by Robert Marshall Downs. As we…
Rose Lorraine Peifer
b. 1993 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 60 specimens collected by Rose Peifer. She and co-collectors Mark Peifer, Lillian McCormick, and Carol…
North Carolina Wildflower Week
Across North Carolina, wildflowers and other native plants grow beside highways, in fields and gardens, or wherever they can take root and astound us with their natural beauty. They give…
The value of volunteers
By Margo MacIntyre, Curator, Coker Arboretum The Coker Arboretum’s corps of volunteers, the Coker Nuts, have been furloughed since March 17, but I never had to experience a pandemic…
Just when you think you know some plant…
By Derick B. Poindexter, Postdoctoral Plant Systematics Researcher, UNC Herbarium Relationships can be a fickle thing. You spend a tremendous amount of time building an understanding of what constitutes…