Egbert Hamilton Walker

…who consistently signed his specimens as “E. H. Walker”. Without doubt we will find more specimens collected by E. H. Walker as we continue to catalog our collections. Most of…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

(12 October 1912 – 28 November 1991) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 180 vascular plant specimens collected by Mary E. Wharton. All

Ernest Gibbes Patton

(d. 28 August 2010) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 80 vascular plant specimens and 2 fungal specimens collected by E. Gibbes Patton….

William Willard Ashe

…served as Secretary of the National Forest Reservation Commission (1918-1924), vice-president of the Society of American Foresters (1919), and chairman of the Forest Service Tree Name Committee (1930-1932). In 1906…

James Heathman Horton

…A list of dissertations and graduate theses in botany completed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1912-2005. 3. History of Conference. https://www.wcu.edu/engage/professional-enrichment/conferences-and-community-classes/the-cullowhee-native-plant-conference/history-of-conference.aspx accessed on 9 April 2020….

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

(15 October 1905 – 2 April 1970)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates a single vascular specimen collected by Robert R. Brinker, a specimen of…

William Battle Cobb

…specimen labels as “W. B. Cobb.” Most specimens are fungi collected in Orange County, though a handful of vascular plant specimens have been cataloged as well. As more of our…

Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill

…plants, or fossils — is interpreting the information on the specimen’s label. Sometimes the collector has terrible handwriting (pointing at you, Dr. William Chambers Coker), sometimes the collector just puts…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…specimen on his family estate, home of McIlhenny Company and Tobasco Pepper Sauce. Other herbaria which curate fungal and lichen specimens collected by E. A. McIlhenny include the Farlow Herbarium…