(1912-2015) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 150 vascular plant specimens collected by Batson, who usually signed his herbarium labels “W. T. Batson”. …
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Goodwin LeBaron Foster
(4 June 1891 – March 1977) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 50 vascular plant specimens collected by Goodwin LeBaron Foster, who signed…
Bruce Alexander Sorrie
b. 1944 Bruce Sorrie with Taxodium ascendens in Moore County, North Carolina in 22 November, 2011. Photo by Kathy Ann Walsh. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium…
One Flower You Will Never Find in the Herbarium*
There is one flower that will never be found in herbarium, but not because of its rarity, habitat or toxicity. I first encountered frost flowers a decade ago along my driveway in southeastern Alamance County.
A New Fungus Among-Us: “Chip Cherry” makes first appearance in North Carolina
New plants, animals and fungi are not only found in far-away exotic locations. The Carolina campus might be a surprising place to find an fungus never before documented from North Carolina, but recently a Carolina Biology major did just that.
Helen Shedd Sherwin
(4 August 1921 – 23 November 1990 ) Helen Shedd Sherwin was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to Edith Sherwin nee Dodson and Melvin Ernest Sherwin. Her father was a professor of…
Luther Stanford Beard
(21 February 1929 – 22 November 2012) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates over 270 vascular plant specimens collected by Luther Stanford Beard. Without doubt…
Rachel Milner Fell Treakle
(6 April 1856 – 14 March 1938) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 10 fungal specimens collected by Rachel Milner Fell. NCU seems to…
Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler
(7 November 1876 – ca. 24 August 1956) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 25 specimens collected by Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler, who went by “Cloyd”…
Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery
26 October 1911 – 8 August 1994 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has 15 specimens collected by Laura Jarrett. All came to NCU as part…