Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood was a self-taught Canadian-American botanist. After graduating from high school…
Art Cronquist's Hat
If you spend time looking at herbarium specimens collected by Arthur Cronquist,…
Becoming a mountain woman
Marie Mooar spent a lot of time in the wilds of western…
Good grief, Charles Geyer
Charles (Karl) A. Geyer was a pioneer botanical collector of the Northwestern…
John Muir
John Muir (1838–1914) was an influential naturalist and conservationist, and co-founder of the…
John Torrey on Gray's Peak
In 1861 Charles Parry was the first explorer to ascend Gray's Peak…
John Torrey’s Trip to California and Colorado, 1872
In July of 1872, John Torrey and his daughter Margaret departed on…
Life in Slot Canyons
Cabinet of CuriositiesExpeditions
Slot canyons are deep channels eroded into rock. They are often ten…
Oro City – A Colorado Ghost Town
Oro City was a gold placer (stream-bed) mining town in Colorado, founded…
Sugar pine
Called "the most princely of the genus" by David Douglas, sugar pine…
The Atomic Specimen
Working with specimens from New Mexico for the Southern Rocky Mountain Digitization…
The Lackluster Major William Rich
Major William Rich was selected to be the botanist on the U. S.…
The Lemmons: Partners in Botany
Sara Plummer met John Gill Lemmon in 1876 when he came to…
The Saguaro Cactus: Emblematic Plant of the American…
Specimen StoriesWhat's in a name?
With its tall, columnar shape and upward-bending branches, the cactus we know…
The Tecate Cypress: What a Tangled Web
While working as a digitization intern, one of the most pleasing features…
Tumbleweeds
Tumbleweeds aren’t restricted to one species or plant family, but are an…
Typical: Astragalus cusickii var. packardiae
Covered in flower dissection illustrations by Rupert Barneby — we should all…