The University of North Carolina
Herbarium
A Department of the North Carolina Botanical Garden

The following information was compiled by UNC's assitant curator, Carol Ann McCormick.

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The UNC Herbarium has databased several dozen specimens collected by Homer A. “Steve” Stephens. No doubt more will be found as the collection continues to be catalogued.

Steve Stephens was the first professional, full-time plant collector hired by the R. L. McGregor Herbarium at the University of Kansas. Between 1966 and 1976, Stephens gathered about 84,000 collection numbers. He collected plants throughout the Great Plains of North America. In fact, a 1975 issue of the Plant Science Bulletin claims that he collected in EVERY county of the Great Plains.

For more information on Steve Stephens and the R. L. McGregor Herbarium, see http://nhm.ku.edu/herbarium/herbinfo.html

      Curriculum                               North Carolina                                 UNC
       In Ecology                              Botanical Garden                   Biology Department

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University of North Carolina Herbarium
CB# 3280, Coker Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
phone: (919) 962-6931
fax: (919) 962-6930
email: herbarium@bio.unc.edu  

Last Updated: 31 October 2005