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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

image: A specimen of Plantago rugelii collected in 2015 for comparison of heavy metal accumulation with historical specimens from the Brown University herbarium collection. view more Humans have long ...

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 ...

The gathering included the University of Wyoming trustees as well as staff, faculty, volunteers and students working at the Rocky Mountain Herbarium. All eyes were on UW student, Madison Dale, as she ...

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 ...