2020: Year of the Wildflower
This year, we’re celebrating and advocating for biodiversity with a year-long focus on native wildflowers. In 2020: Year of the Wildflower, our classes, lectures, field trips, special events, educational exhibits,…
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2020 Wildflower of the Year
Marsh-pink Sabatia angularis A stunning biennial in the gentian family (Gentianaceae), marsh-pink (Sabatia angularis) is also known as rose gentian, rose pink, or bitter-bloom. Native to the eastern and…
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Thomas Fanning Wood
(1841 — 1892) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has found only a handful of Wood’s specimens in our collection. All specimens were collected in 1885…
Charles Wright
(29 October 1811 – 11 August 1885) “As a careful and indefatigable explorer and collector, and also an acute observer, he merits the highest praise,and will be long and honorably…
Raymond Louis Wyatt
(b. 23 November 1926) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium has cataloged about 40 vascular plant specimens collected by Raymond Louis Wyatt, who usually signed his labels…
Lawson Edwin Yocum
(10 August 1890 – 23 February 1977)1 In 2018 the University of North Carolina at Greensboro gave the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium several hundred herbarium specimens. We…
Mason Farm Microbes Make Fine Sourdough Bread
By Van T. Cotter, Ph.D., Herbarium Associate (and fungi expert!) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) A discovery While visiting Mason Farm Biological Reserve on March…
Frances Ernestine Silliman
14 February 1906 – 19 October 1976 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 70 botanical specimens collected by Frances Ernestine Silliman. Fellow graduate…