Enchantress along the Eno

North Carolina. Courtesy of North Carolina Biodiversity Project. LeGrand and Sorrie call Circaea canadensis “Broadleaf Enchanter’s-nightshade” and describe it as “a very widespread species of the Northeast, found over much

Allen Hierome Curtiss

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates over 600 specimens collected by A. H. Curtiss. Many were received as specimens distributed for “North American Plants [Curtiss, N.

Paul Otto Schallert

in teaching in 1955 from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught in Monterey for 21 years. She was active in the music and theater culture of Carmel and Monterey

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

2. LeGrand, H., B. Sorrie, and T. Howard. 2023. Vascular Plants of North Carolina [Internet]. Raleigh (NC): North Carolina Biodiversity Project and North Carolina State Parks. Available from https://auth1.dpr.ncparks.gov/flora/index.php. 3

Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill

by Carol Ann McCormick Curatrix of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU)   One of the challenges of cataloging herbarium specimens — algae, fungi, mosses, vascular

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,

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

to be carried out; and the lavish generosity of Mr. Durant’s nature caused him to find more pleasure in giving away the beautiful results of his labor than in exposing