Ivey Foreman Lewis

(3 August 1882 – 16 March 1964) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged less than a dozen botanical specimens collected by Ivey Foreman Lewis….

Wildflower Resource Guide

  Welcome to our Wildflower Resource Guide! We hope you can explore the resources below and that you can learn more about planting wildflowers and get answers to the questions…

Don Edgar Eyles

(4 September 1915 – 4 October 1963) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about a dozen specimens collected by Don E. Eyles; most were…

Laurie M. Stewart Radford

(1910 – 2004) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates over 1200 vascular plant specimens collected (or co-collected) by Laurie M. Stewart Radford. NCU also curates…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

by R. Haven Wiley, Ph.D. Biology Department (retired), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Orchids are more than just flowers! In fact, most of them don’t have flowers to…

Joseph Austin Holmes

(1859-1915) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 60 vascular plant specimens collected by J. A. Holmes. The earliest ones (1877-1880) were collected around…

Elbert Thomas Bartholomew

(1878-1967) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 20 mycological specimens collected by Elbert Thomas Bartholomew, who typically signed his specimen labels “E. T. Bartholomew”….

Elam T. Bartholomew

(9 June 1852 – 18 November 1934) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 80 fungal specimens collected by Elam Bartholomew. As we continue…

Clinton Osborne Houghton

(7 April 1873 – 8 November 1967) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about a dozen vascular plant specimens collected by Clinton Osborne Houghton, who…