Duane Francis Houck

…Conservation Foundation’s website: http://www.tcf-barc.org/index.html and http://www.tcf-barc.org/barcgeninfo.htm Hurricane Iris October 8-9, 2001 in Belize: Our first priority was recovering the herbarium. For those of you who have not seen it, Duane…

Luther Stanford Beard

…an alternative in order to make his or her own choice… Such balances of Christian commitment and scientific expertise is seldom found, and with Dr. L. Stanford Beard we find…

2021 Wildflower of the Year

…planted in a group to give a fuller appearance, at the back of a shrub border, or in a naturalistic woodland garden where it can stretch out. Read more about…

Edwin Lynn Bridges

…Robert D. and Edwin L. Bridges. 2015. Xyris chapmanii, an overlooked Xyris species of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Bartonia 67: 58-74. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43233853 Weakley, Alan S., Derick B. Poindexter, Richard…

CCG Volunteer Spotlight: Simone

…our compost leaders and even continued to volunteer when she was back during breaks from college! When the stay-at-home order began in the spring and Simone had to return home,…

Ferdinand Blanchard

…to ask the name of the author of the day’s piece; then he would give a little offhand talk about the author. One day the author was Tomas Babington Macaulay….

Egbert Hamilton Walker

(12 June 1899 – 10 March 1991)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 90 vascular plant specimens collected or co-collected by Egbert Hamilton Walker,…

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…

Visitation

…of the Collection: Visitors are welcome to use the collections as long as they abide by these general use guidelines: Please close herbarium cases when not in use. Keep specimen…

Abram Paschal Garber

…Fanny.4 In some sources his name is “Abram Paschal Garber,” in others “Abraham Pascal Garber.” There is also inconsistency in his birth month, variously listed as January3, July6, or February5….