Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…tree, who collected them, and most importantly, how big were the cores? Would they fit in standard herbarium cases? Tyler Mitchell collects a tree core as part of his research…

Therapeutic Horticulture History and Staff

…surrounding communities have benefited from the dedicated leadership of several passionate program managers: Judy Carrier: 1978-1984 Bibby Moore: 1984-1992 Nancy Easterling: 1992-2009 Sally Haskett: 2009- 2021 Emilee Weaver: 2022-present Read…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…her family’s garden. From her grandmother she learned the parts of a flower, beginning an interest in plants that carried on throughout her life. At the University of Kentucky, Wharton…

John Robert Raper

…most frequent collecting locations included Chapel Hill and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and orchids seem to have been his particular interest. Although John Raper was a mycologist, we…

Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery

26 October 1911 – 8 August 1994 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has 15 specimens collected by Laura Jarrett. All came to NCU as part…

Richard Joel Reader

…Ecology doctoral thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   SOURCES: 1. Graduate Calendar 2002-2003. Botany. University of Guelph. https://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/calendars/graduate/2002-2003/programs/bota.html accessed on 8 May 2023.        …

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…225-229.   SOURCES: SERNEC Data Portal. 2023. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on December 04. Anderson, Lewis E. (1965) In memoriam: Hugo Leander Blomquist 1885 [sic]-1964. The Bryologist 68(2): 251-254. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3241029…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…NCU’s specimens collected by Walker are from the environs of the District of Columbia and from North Carolina (particularly Polk County). It seems likely that his collecting activities in Polk…