Type specimens are the original specimens used to determine the name of a plant. They act as the reference material for the original name designation and therefore are very important to botanist that ...

Does the word herbarium bring up the image of a lush garden filled with luxuriant plants? Think again. An herbarium actually serves as a type of natural history museum, an archive of preserved plant ...

AMES, Iowa – The offices on the perimeter of the third floor of Bessey Hall on the Iowa State University campus have windows. A complex of four adjacent interior rooms across the hallway from those ...

Duke Herbarium director Kathleen Pryer holds a specimen called the Gaga monstraparva. The Duke Herbarium contains over 800,000 specimens that can aid biodiversity research. Duke University is closing ...

Retired University of Colorado professor and botanist William A. Weber — who founded the university’s herbarium in 1946 — is receiving recognition for his years of dedication. The CU Museum of Natural ...

More than 58,000 plants, collected in all parts of the world, were received during the past year at the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, Merritt L. Fernald 1B, director, has announced in his ...

Researchers have built a DNA barcode library for the vascular plant flora of Canada based entirely on herbarium collections. DNA barcode libraries are important to facilitate plant identification for ...

Herbarium is to plants as library is to books, as museum is to artifacts, as gallery is to art. The Natural State's herbarium is housed in the south wing of the Department of Arkansas Heritage ...

Herbaria in North America are withering away. Collections of preserved plant specimens that have been accumulating for a century or more are being closed and consolidated as tight budgets and ...