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Specimens contained in the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium represent the endless…
J. K. Small's exploration in Southern Florida, 1915
John Kunkel Small, botanist and herbarium curator at the the New York Botanical…
Granite outcrop specialists
Plants are amazing and can adapt to live in the most unlikely…
Before & After: P. F. Zika 28277
The unmounted herbarium specimen, as it arrived at the garden in the…
Greetings from Camp
Even if you have never attended a sleepaway summer camp, chances are you've gotten a…
Floral Fireworks
When fireworks are needed, no matter the reason, these herbarium specimens will help…
Chock-full of chromosomes
Cabinet of CuriositiesFocus on Science
Behold this fern which has the highest recorded chromosome number of any living…
Escapes from cultivation
Humans have a long history of moving and cultivating plant species. But…
Brown and Beautiful
Whether naturally brown, or turning brown during the preservation steps needed to create herbarium…
Women in Genera
What's in a name?Women in Science
For as long as we've been using binomial nomenclature to name species,…
Polka-dot Ferns
Unlike flowering plants, ferns reproduce with spores instead of seeds. Fern spores…