For 500 years, we’ve documented the science and beauty of the natural world by pressing plants. It’s a tradition that anyone can join. ... That’s how herbarium specimens, ...

The Agnes Marion Ayre Herbarium on Mount Scio Road in St. John's houses over 100,000 dried and pressed plant specimens from ...

Like many of the mounted specimens of George Clifford's herbarium sheets, prepared in the 1730s, these two appear to be growing out of decorative, engraved paper urns. On the right is the first ...

How are you celebrating Mes CHamoru? Whether on or off island, homegrown Marianas islanders are probably cooking their favorite local dishes, maybe listening to their favorite CHamoru singers or even ...

The word “herbarium” sounds a bit ... Students were expected to collect at least 300 different specimens. ... A Granddaughter’s Memoir,” has recently been published by White River Press.

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in places that felt like home, according to a new study from the University of ...

The Rocky Mountain Herbarium is the fourth-largest public university herbarium and is ranked 14th out of 873 herbaria in the United States. With over 1.4 million total specimens, its collections are ...

Digitally cataloguing, or digitizing, a herbarium specimen involves recording the species name and original location and uploading that record to a digital repository that is publicly accessible.

Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in ...