Battle Park Internship
A summer internship opportunity at Battle Park Note: This internship is open to current undergraduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill only. Applications due: 3/14/2021 Location: Battle Park and other NCBG natural…
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Martha Decker DeBerry Horticulture Internship
A summer internship opportunity at Coker Arboretum Note: This internship is open to current students at UNC-Chapel Hill only. Applications due: 2/28/2021 Location: Coker Arboretum Duration: 3 months (approximately mid-May…
Charles Fuller Baker
22 March, 1872 — 22 July 1927 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about one hundred vascular plant specimens collected by Charles Fuller Baker —…
Jesse Mason Cemetery and the History of the Garden
By Nick Adams, Battle Park Manager On November 17th, Ken Moore led a field trip of North Carolina Botanical Garden tour guides and a few community members to the Jesse…
Herbarium Student Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
By Angelica Edwards, Communications Intern Dan Meyers, a senior biology major and the Mary McKee Felton Intern at the Herbarium, was inducted in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and…
NEWSFLASH: Chip Cherry Update
The January, 2021 issue of the NCBG e-newsletter had an article about a fungus new to North Carolina, Leratiomyces ceres, or “Chip Cherry.” Herbarium Associate Dr. Van Cotter has gone…
Diane Elizbeth Wickland
(b. ca. 1951) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates well over 800 vascular plant specimens collected by Diane E. Wickland. Many were collected as vouchers…
William Chambers Coker
(1872-1953) The botanist who gave his name to one of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s biology buildings and its arboretum was born in Hartsville, South Carolina on October…
New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium
By Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium A few weeks ago, Herbarium director Alan Weakley and I received an email from a colleague in Virginia offering some plant specimens…