Herman Harrison Braxton

…signed his specimen labels “H. H. Braxton.” Most of Braxton’s specimens were collected in the Crawford Creek area of Haywood County, North Carolina. To date, only a single specimen collected…

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You can now order from our Garden Shop online! From botanical t-shirts to gardening books to native wildflower seeds to crafts by local artists, you’re sure to find an awesome…

Walking with Walter and William

…collection it may be that we find additional specimens Coker collected on his pilgrimage, as perhaps he collected plants which he did not mention in his manuscript. In the “they…

Clinton Osborne Houghton

…likely we will find more of his collections. NCU has found a single specimen collected by Frederic Courtland Houghton, Clinton’s son. The specimen label has “F.C.H.” as the collector, but…

Ivey Foreman Lewis

…Find A Grave Memorial # 83056299. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83056299/ivey-foreman-lewis accessed on 20 January 2021 Special thanks to Bill Burk, retired librarian, Couch Library, Botany Section, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill….

Edwin Huey Bullington

…first CCC company occupied Devil’s Den State Park on October 20, 1933. The main goal of this unit, made up of men from North Dakota, was to construct a good…

Welcome, new Herbarium students!

…will be involved in all aspects of the Herbarium including making digital images of specimens for our online catalog and preparing specimens for loans to other herbaria. During her first…

Richard Glenn Bowmer

…labels as “R. G. Bowmer”. The specimens at NCU were collected in 1957, most are from the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Other herbaria curate specimens collected by Dr. Bowmer,…

Edward Willis Graves

…4. Ancestry.com World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Serive…