by Bryan England Preserve Manager, Annie Louise Wilkerson, MD Nature Preserve Park In the summer of 2021, the UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium received an unexpected specimen, a rare native wildflower…
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates only a handful of specimens collected by William Frederick Hinton, who always used “Fred Hinton” on his specimen labels. …
( 9 January 1912 – June 1967 )1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 60 specimens collected by Mildred Gant Stites Reed. All…
(August 1857 – 1932) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has about a dozen specimens collected by Alfred Cuthbert. About half are from Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia,…
Five undergraduate students — some new, some returning — will be working in the Herbarium during the 2021-2022 academic year. In addition, throughout the year we will welcome undergraduate classes…
by Guy Nesom, Ph.D. Research Associate, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The ‘weakley’ of Alan Weakley now also belongs with a species in the sunflower…
(b. 2 October 1907 – 18 November 2001) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 20 vascular plant specimens and 11 bryophyte specimens collected by…
(16 March 1888 – 30 April 1964) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates 19 fungal specimens and 3 vascular plant specimens collected by Eugène Poilane. As our…
(10 November 1865 – 17 January 1947)8 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates few specimens collected by John Lewis Sheldon, who usually signed his labels…
(8 November 1851- 18 December 1892) “Earth is so full of things to know and see From Northern Lights to animanculae” The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium…