UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HERBARIUM

CHAPEL HILL, NC

Spring beauty with bee Virginia Spring Beauty - Claytonia virginica These were just barely started on 5 March 2024. With pollinator--does not appear to be the Spring Beauty Andrenid (Andrena erigeniae), but I am not sure.
Spring beauty with bee Credit: cotinis

The University of North Carolina Herbarium is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is a repository for plant specimens collected from throughout the state and beyond. Established in 1908, the herbarium is part of the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and serves as a resource for research, education, and outreach.

The herbarium houses over 800,000 plant specimens, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and algae, as well as a collection of fungi. These specimens are preserved and stored in a climate-controlled environment, and are used by researchers and students to study plant diversity, taxonomy, and ecology.

The herbarium also maintains a library of botanical literature and resources, and hosts workshops and outreach events for the public. In addition, the herbarium is part of a network of herbaria that share data and specimens, allowing researchers to study plant diversity on a global scale.

Overall, the University of North Carolina Herbarium is an important resource for the study of plant biodiversity and ecology, and plays a vital role in advancing our understanding of the natural world.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HERBARIUM is a Uncategorized or General Museum in CHAPEL HILL NC. US MID #8403700004

The museum is classed as GMU (Uncategorized or General Museums). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia).

Spring beauty with bee Virginia Spring Beauty - Claytonia virginica These were just barely started on 5 March 2024. With pollinator--does not appear to be the Spring Beauty Andrenid (Andrena erigeniae), but I am not sure.
Leaf hider Putty Root - Aplectrum hyemale Foliage present mostly in winter and early spring, like the much more common Cranefly Orchid, Tipularia discolor. I cannot recall seeing so many Aplectrum in a clump like this previously.
Leaf hider Putty Root - Aplectrum hyemale Foliage present mostly in winter and early spring, like the much more common Cranefly Orchid, Tipularia discolor. I cannot recall seeing so many Aplectrum in a clump like this previously.
Early bloomer Round-lobed Hepatica - Hepatica americana (sometimes listed as Hepatica nobilis) A botanist friend of mine has seen it blooming in the Triangle area as early as Christmas!
Bee likes toothwort Bee on Cute-leaves Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata). Posted at: <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/203852156" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.inaturalist.org/observations/203852156</a> ID as Andrena sp.
E. umb Dimpled Trout Lily - Erythronium umbilicatum Parks and Hardin
Spicebush party Spicebush - Lindera benzoin Pretty display that day.
Spicebush party Spicebush - Lindera benzoin Pretty display that day.
Japanese Bridge and Cherry Blossoms
Small stag beetle Platycerus quercus - Oak Stag Beetle (female, 9 mm)
Small stag beetle Platycerus quercus - Oak Stag Beetle (female, 9 mm) I found a female and a male under the loose bark of a rotting log, likely an oak. They were quite near each other. Males, apparently, are sometimes found on spring flowers. The Dillons tell us "Mandibles of male as long as head and with about six teeth near apex, in female much smaller". It was nice to find a male and a female together for comparison. Also posted at (female): <a href="https://bugguide.net/node/view/2339429" rel="noreferrer nofollow">bugguide.net/node/view/2339429</a> References - BugGuide <a href="https://bugguide.net/node/view/17091" rel="noreferrer nofollow">bugguide.net/node/view/17091</a> - Dillon and Dillon, A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America (Row, Peterson, and Company, 1961), p. 569, plate 56(1)--P. virescens, a synonym for P. quercus - Evans, Beetles of Eastern North America (Princeton University Press, 2014), p. 144 - Ratcliffe and Paulsen, The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska (Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum, Vol 22, 2008), pp. 106-108, fig. 153
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CHAPEL HILL
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MID # 8403700004
Name UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HERBARIUM
Alternate Name UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HERBARIUM
Classification Uncategorized or General Museums, , Southeastern
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LAT/LONG 35.903139, -79.05096
CODES FIPS State Code: 37
FIPS County Code: 135
US Census Tract: 011602
US Census Block: 2006