Eugène Poilane

…herbaria curating Poilane’s specimens include Harvard University Herbaria (A), Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem (B), National Botanic Garden of Belgium (BR), Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada (DAO), Royal Botanic Garden…

William Chambers Coker

…Coker’s seminal works: Coker, William Chambers. 1923. The Saprolegniaceae, with notes on other water molds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Coker, William Chambers. 1923. Clavarias of the United…

Digging into the Science

…edition of October 2020. North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. Weakley, Alan S., Derick B. Poindexer, Hannah C. Medford, Bruce A. Sorrie,…

Richard J. LeBlond

…primary repository for specimens. As we continue to catalog our collections, without doubt more specimens collected by LeBlond will be found. Other herbaria curating specimens collected by LeBlond include Auburn…

Norton G. Miller

(4 February 1942 – 7 December 2011) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 40 lichen and moss specimens collected by Norton Miller. As…

Frederick William Gray

…Dr. Gray’s collections of lichens and ferns contained in NCU’s collections to my attention. The Herbarium welcomes more information (particularly a photograph) on Rev. Gray. Please contact mccormick@unc.edu with any…

Alpheus Wesley Blizzard

…College in Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina from 1926 until 1934. The photo (left), courtesy of Coker College, is from the College’s 1933 yearbook. The 1930 US Federal Census lists…

School’s Out Camp: Plant Superpowers!

…the wild and wonderful ways that plants meet the challenges of their environment through hands-on outdoor exploration, experiments, and games, and then create their very own super plant. Camp features…