The GO-TO GUIDE forWildflower Hunting in Your State Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast describes and illustrates 1,250 species commonly encountered in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Washington D.C.,…
We’re honored to be one of 20 public gardens nationwide selected to create a demonstration garden in the U.S. Botanic Garden’s Gardens Across America exhibit, which runs from now through…
Floras & Field Guides Published floras have traditionally been the main means of synthesizing information on the species of plants in an area—their habitats, phenology, classification, common names, and practical…
Visitation The herbarium is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday – Friday. However, because we may be in the field, elsewhere on campus, or interacting…
Loan and Accession Policies Our mailing/shipping address is: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) CB #3280 Coker Hall 120 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, U.S.A. Telephone:…
Search Herbarium Specimens Specimen portals are user-friendly, web-based data access technologies that aid taxonomists, field biologists, ecologists, educators, and citizen scientists in the study of biodiversity. The data are derived…
North Carolina’s abundant, diverse, and colorful native wildflowers will teach us many lessons, if we only listen. One of those lessons is that plant species differ in their tolerance to…