Staff and associated personnel

Director

Alexander Krings, PhD, FLS
Herbarium (NCSC)
Department of Plant Biology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7612

Correspondent for all herbarium related business, including loan inqueries and plant identification requests.  Contact: Alexander_Krings@ncsu.edu or 919.515.2700.

Specialists

Taxonomy and Systematics
Paul R. Fantz, PhD Taxonomy of cultivated plants
Professor Emeritus and legumes.
Department of Horticultural Science
Alexander Krings, PhD, FLS Taxonomy of New World
Assistant Professor and Director climbing plants, particularly
of the Vascular Plant Herbarium Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae
Department of Plant Biology rare plants; Poaceae.
Jenny Xiang, PhD Plant systematics and evolution of flowering plants
Professor with emphasis on the
Department of Plant Biology dogwood and buckeye families
and intercontinental disjuncts. 
Ecology and Floristics
William A. Hoffmann, PhD Tropical ecology, ecophysiology, global change
Associate Professor  
Department of Plant Biology  
   
Jon M. Stucky, PhD Experimental species biology of
Professor endangered plants; wetland plant biology.
Department of Plant Biology  
Thomas R. Wentworth, PhD Plant community ecology
Professor
Department of Plant Biology
Donna Wright Floristics and ecology
Teaching Technician
Department of Plant Biology
Medicinal and Ethnobotany
Robert Beckmann, PhD Ethnobotany
Associate  Professor
Department of Plant Biology
   
Deyu Xie, PhD Phytochemistry, metabolic
Associate  Professor engineering, medicinal botany
Department of Plant Biology  
Paleobotany
James E. Mickle, PhD Paleobotany
Associate Professor
Department of Plant Biology
Other affiliates
Janice Coffey-Swab, PhD Taxonomy; Juncus
Professor
Department of Biology
Meredith College