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.

Lisa Marie Giencke

the Couch Biology Library and the North Carolina Collection of Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. In 2007 Giencke moved to southern California to participate

Percy H. Gentle

Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden volume 85. (page 18 deals with Percy Gentle)                

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

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”

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,

Lewis Henry Lighthipe

Corundum Knob in Clay County, North Carolina collected by J. Dan Pittillo, Gary Kauffman, Alan S. Weakley, and Mike Schafale in 1994; this specimen is curated by Western Carolina University

John Robert Raper

for Alumni Records. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Information compiled by Carol Ann McCormick, September, 2013 from documents generously provided by Meredith Tozzer, University of North Carolina at