Katherine Augusta Taylor

…Museum. Mother of Katherine Augusta Taylor, botanist. Katherine Augusta Taylor was born to William Wallace Taylor, Jr. and Catharine Augusta Birckhead Taylor on 20 November 1850. 1,3 The family was…

Augustin Gattinger

…Natural Sciences (PH), Iowa State University (ISC), Auburn University Museum of Natural History (AUA), Austin Peay State University (APSC), Brigham Young University (BRY:V), Brown University (BRU), Canadian Museum of Nature…

Elam T. Bartholomew

…Science Foundation; a searchable database of those specimens can be found at www.mycoportal.org NCU also curates fungi collected by Elam Bartholomew’s son, Elbert Thomas Bartholomew (1878-1967), who usually signed his…

Garden Shop Now Online!

You can now order from our Garden Shop online! From botanical t-shirts to gardening books to native wildflower seeds to crafts by local artists, you’re sure to find an awesome…

Paul Wilson Titman

(30 August 1920 – 18 May 2000) The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has catalogued 17 vascular plant specimens and 8 fungal specimens collected by Paul W….

Stuck at Home, not Stuck Inside

…as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For University updates and advisories on the Coronavirus, please visit www.unc.edu/coronavirus. Check for our most recent Garden-specific updates at ncbg.unc.edu/coronavirus. Many…

Elizabeth Kathleen Goldie-Smith

…Goldie-Smith, who usually signed her labels as “E.K.G.S.” Our fungal collection is being cataloged into the searchable on-line database, www.mycoportal.org As we continue to catalog our fungi it is probable…