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"Wildflowers of New England," with images by Edwin Hale Lincoln, and a smaller show of work by Lindsey Beal and May Babcock are on view.
Each botanical illustration of a species is paired with a diagram, all different and depicting the properties she perceived ...
The Agnes Marion Ayre Herbarium on Mount Scio Road in St. John's houses over 100,000 dried and pressed plant specimens from across the province.
Julissa Roncal is the curator of the Agnes Marion Ayre Herbarium at Memorial University. (Sarah Antle/CBC News)In a room full of tall metal cabinets, Julissa Roncal carefully flicks through stacks of ...
This is the herbarium at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. It's one of the largest collections of dried plant specimens in the world.
Herbarium Labels and Spatial Software During the pandemic, Krupnick spent time sifting through herbarium sheets on the museum’s online collection database. While in-person access to the herbarium ...
These efforts yielded thousands of dried specimens and data-rich labels that are housed in herbaria around the world, including the museum's United States National Herbarium.
Iowa State University herbarium director Lynn Clark points to a handwritten label on a plant specimen collected by famous botanist George Washington Carver.
The 1.5 millionth specimen, Rhododon ciliatus, is commonly known as Texas sandmint, a plant that grows only in Texas. The addition of this specimen positions the BRIT Herbarium as the ninth largest in ...
By Abhishyant Kidangoor How can dried plant specimens protect a rainforest? In myriad ways. Kept in collections known as herbariums, they store critical data on the physical characteristics, or ...
Though it’s little known to most Atlantans, the Emory University Herbarium is marking its 75th year as the home of over 25,000 plant specimens, neatly dried, labeled, and organized in filing ...