New Digital Image Search Tool

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Science Digital Image Search tool. Experience the beauty of our natural world through our collection of field photographs, microscopic images, SEMs and botanical illustrations. Browse a curated set of images taken...

Specimen Digitizer Position

The NYBG Tropical Africa Digitization project is seeking a Specimen Digitizer to help unlock the data of NY’s collection of 100,000 herbarium specimens from Africa as part of the Tropical Africa TCN (Award # 2223880). This two year position will...

We’re Hiring!

We’re Hiring! “The NYBG All Asia Digitization project is seeking to hire two interns to help digitize NY’s collection of herbarium specimens from Asia and the Malay Archipelago as part of the All Asia TCN (Award #2100755). Interns join a...

WeDigBio 2020

For the 5th consecutive year, NYBG’s William and Lynda Steere Herbarium is partnering with leading museums, universities, and environmental organizations around the world to engage the public in citizen science! During WeDigBio! 2020 (October 15–18), we invite your help to...

COVID-19: Herbarium Update

The New York Botanical Garden is a scientific and educational institution and an indoor and outdoor museum of plants with living collections arranged in gardens and landscapes across its 250-acre site, and it is subject to New York State’s time...

Terrific Pteridophytes! Crowdsourcing Project

Pteridophytes (including ferns and lycophytes) are one of the oldest groups of plants on Earth, with a fossil record dating back 420 million years. Unlike seed plants, they reproduce by releasing tiny, dust-like spores, so they completely lack flowers, fruits,...

Globe Spotter Crowdsourcing Project

Every year, tens of thousands of new botanical collections make their way into the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium from every corner of the globe. Often arriving pressed between sheets of newspaper from their country of origin, these precious biological...

Introducing Biotic Interactions VH Interface

For centuries we have viewed plants and fungi in isolation. Tried to understand a tree, a flower or a mushroom absent the rich context in which it lives. Recently, scientists have come to view interactions, whether between organisms (biotic) or...

Alpine Flowers and Climate Change

In the United States, alpine environments located above the trees on mountain peaks provide important habitat for Arctic tundra plants. Unique species grow under extreme conditions within these isolated “islands in the sky” which are rarely found elsewhere south of...

Herbarium #plantlove

Besides the daily love and care we show to our collections, the Herbarium has launched The Hand Lens as our way to tell the stories behind the specimens and to make the Virtual Herbarium more accessible to the public.  We...

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