Enchantress along the Eno

Carolina and adjacent Tennessee…This is a species of cool and somewhat damp places, Range of Circaea alpina in North Carolina. Courtesy of North Carolina Biodiversity Project. most frequent in spruce-fir

Albert Commons

aquaticum “marsh rattlesnake master” Eupatorium resinosum “pine barren boneset” Gentiana autumnalis “pine barren gentian” Lachnanthes caroliniana “Carolina redroot” Myriophyllum pinnatum “cutleaf water-milfoil” Oclemena nemoralis “bog aster” Paspalum dissectum “Walter’s paspalum”

Random Walk through the Herbarium

By Carol Ann McCormick, Curatrix, UNC Chapel Hill Herbarium and Michael Lee, NCBG Data Scientist With 800,000 botanical and mycological specimens (give or take) in the University of North Carolina

Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill

or grottoes. There are numerous surface mines throughout the County, including Piedmont Minerals Company Mine near Hillsborough which yields pyrophyllite and the American Stone Company near White Cross which yields

Discovering the Campus-to-Garden Trail

Creek originates somewhere near the Carolina Inn. From there it is con- tained within a cavernous subterranean culvert through campus, pops out for a short stretch near the Bell Tower,

Thomas Fanning Wood

261-262. in William S. Powell (editor), Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, vol. 6. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. NCSA. North Carolina State Archives, Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood

Alpheus Wesley Blizzard

search of sernecportal.org in October, 2022 revealed that the University of Minnestoa (MIN) is the only other herbarium curating specimens collected by Blizzard. MIN’s single specimen was also collected in

Ferdinand Blanchard

by Carol Ann McCormick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) in collaboration with Sarah Hartwell & Joshua Shaw of Rauner Special Collections, Dartmouth College Library    

Charles Ferson Durant

nearly stationary for several minutes, when it again moved towards the west. Every few minutes the sand was distinctly seen showering down, and finally the balloon was observed to descend

One Flower You Will Never Find in the Herbarium*

works of art. Tallahassee Magazine 26(1): 81-85. Mims, Forrest M., III. 2003. Frost Flowers. www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2003-12-19/mimsci/body.html . Accessed 2006. Wikipedia contributors. “Needle ice.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,