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 ...

Plant specimens stored in herbaria are being used to explore important ecological questions. Researchers have now shown the effectiveness of herbarium specimens of herbaceous plants to track changes ...

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 ...

Even as botany has moved firmly into the era of "big data," some of the most valuable botanical information remains inaccessible for computational analysis, locked in physical form in the orderly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...