In May, the museum completed a groundbreaking digitization process that brought nearly four million pressed plants online. Jack Tamisiea With the help of a conveyor belt and high-speed camera, members ...

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 ...

The New York Botanical Garden is home to the world’s second-largest herbarium, a vital archive in an era of vanishing botanical collections. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you ...

The Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium (MU) is a broad collection, both taxonomically and geographically. Holdings include specimens of vascular plants, mosses, fungi, and algae, along with our special ...

David Tank, a botany professor and director of UW’s Rocky Mountain Herbarium, examines a specimen of Wyoming paintbrush. Herbarium specimens are central to his research program. (UW Photo) Thanks to a ...

I am shocked and saddened by the plan to close the Duke Herbarium — one of the most important resources in my Duke experience from 2002 to 2013. For my honors thesis, I collected mosses in the North ...

Volunteer Madison Dale, of Laramie, shows the 1 millionth plant specimen -- a Wyoming Indian paintbrush -- mounted at UW’s Rocky Mountain Herbarium in 2020. Phenomenon-based lessons that use the ...

Duke University is closing its herbarium, which is among the largest herbaria in the country, housing more than 825,000 plant species. The decision comes amid budget cuts and staff shortages, ...

Duke Herbarium leaders allege that the recent decision to close the facility was motivated by resource insufficiency within the biology department, as department leaders and administration decided to ...