University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina Herbarium is a world-wide collection of vascular plants (750,000; of those ~525,000 from southeastern United States), non-vascular plants (11,000 primarily southeastern United States), fossils (especially plants of Devonian), red marine algae (temperate zone), fungi (25,000 macrofungi, 18,000 microfungi), and lichens (4,000 primarily southeastern United States). NCU is the primary repository for collections of Albert Radford, Harry E. Ahles, C. Ritchie Bell, Bruce A. Sorrie, Richard LeBlond, Patricia Gensel, Max Hommersand, Paul Gabrielson, William C. Coker, John N. Couch, and Gary Perlmutter. Vascular plants of southeastern U.S., especially Carolinas; red marine algae (temperate, worldwide); bryophytes of southeastern U.S., especially North Carolina; fungi (especially southeastern U.S.); plant fossils (especially Devonian). Fungi, Lichens, Algae, Bryophytes, Vascular Plants, Plant Fossils