From rare specimens to everyday favorites, why these collections are essential for gardeners, scientists, and plant lovers ...

An extensive botanical reference library that’s a growing resource for documenting and doing research has been on the Iowa State University campus for more than one-and-a-half centuries. The Ada ...

Digitizing the records of our herbarium specimens is important for expanding our scientific reach, but safely securing museum specimens is essential for current and future botanical research. Gary ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mike Vincent is in search of coffee — but not the kind to fill his cup. He’s on the hunt for a dried plant from the genus Coffea arabica. The curator of the Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium in Upham ...

Matthew Austin, curator of biodiversity data at the Missouri Botanical Garden, looks through Dogwood tree samples in the herbarium.. Austin’s research shows Dogwood trees are blooming earlier in the ...

Indigenous readers are advised that this article contains some disturbing historical information. On the fringes of Sydney, just as the suburbs taper out into farmland and bush, there's a shiny new ...