NAACP member J. E. Spingarn and the Clematis…
Joel Elias Spingarn (May 17, 1875 - July 26, 1939) was a…
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Joel Elias Spingarn (May 17, 1875 - July 26, 1939) was a…
Amid the tragedy of the Australian fires, the Wollemi Pine is a…
Bassett Maguire (1904–1991), a botanist who spent the majority of his career…
Plant specimens come in all shapes and sizes, but they are usually…
Specimen StoriesWhat's in a name?
One of the common names for the genus Erythronium is the dogtooth…
Some characters are altered in the drying process used to create herbarium specimens.…
Biltmore, a Gilded Era mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, is America’s largest…
Astragalus osterhoutii M. E. Jones (or Osterhout milkvetch) is an herbaceous plant known…
Cabinet of CuriositiesSpecimen Stories
In the museum world, there's a sort of joke that you never…
With 7,800,000 specimens in our herbarium, reaching 4,000,000 specimens catalogued in our…
A herbarium's version of a double rainbow — a double type specimen.…
One of the earliest and most impactful scientific expeditions led by the…
When a researcher names a new species of algae, fungi, or plant,…
This type specimen is like a postcard from Hawaii reading "Wish you…
Covered in flower dissection illustrations by Rupert Barneby — we should all…
George Washington Carver (1860s–1943) was an inventor, teacher, botanist, and mycologist (a…