Haru (Francia) Chisaki Hommersand

…The Phycodrys franiae was named in her honor. Opera was another great love as was reading, and she enjoyed meeting a group of friends for coffee to talk about and…

Ferdinand Blanchard

…could be printed; also that he was such a wonderful talker that people called him a “conversationalist.” No boy or girl who heard these district school talks ever forgot them,…

Albert Commons

…tomentosa “hairy snoutbean” Rhynchospora knieskernii “Knieskern’s beak-rush” Rhynchospora torreyana “Torrey’s beak-rush” Schoenoplectus etuberculatus “Canby’s bulrush” Smilax pseudochina “long-stalk greenbrier” Viola pedata “bird’s-foot violet” Xerophyllum aspholdeloides “eastern turkeybeard” SEPTEMBER 10, 1875…

Walking with Walter and William

…from his paper. Thomas Walter’s legacy is an example of the issues we face when we talk about the foundational botanists in our region. Some of the original botanists working…

Mary Steed Stipe Eyles

…writer Matthew Porter of Decatur, Class of ’81. “For instance, I’m a gay man, and she helped me through that out of high school and into college. I’d talk to…

Welcome, new Herbarium students!

…of his home state, Mississippi, this coming academic year. John took advantage of Carolina classes going virtual during the academic year 2020-21 by returning to Mississippi and making hundreds of…

A Toast to Polk County, Galax, and Bigleaf Scurfpea

…Jul. 2021. Web. 27 Nov. 2021. 3. “Polk Place” The Carolina Story: A Virtual Museum of University History, June 2016. Web. 27 Nov. 2021. https://museum.unc.edu/exhibits/show/architecture/polk-place—s-new-classroom-b 4. “Orbexilum macrophyllum” NatureServe. 2021….