Modern Art
Herbarium specimens play an important part in plant science research. But the specimens themselves can…
Label Appreciation: Borders
Labels are as important to a herbarium specimen as the plant, alga, or…
Greetings from Camp
Even if you have never attended a sleepaway summer camp, chances are you've gotten a…
Brown and Beautiful
Whether naturally brown, or turning brown during the preservation steps needed to create herbarium…
Polka-dot Ferns
Unlike flowering plants, ferns reproduce with spores instead of seeds. Fern spores…
Label Appreciation: Favorites
Labels are as important to a herbarium specimen as the plant, alga, or…
Bigelow's mushroom photographs
In the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden there are over 30,000…
Season it with Leaves
Culinary herbs are plants with aromatic properties and that are used for…
Fruits of Rosaceae
Flowering plants differ from all other plants by producing seeds within fruits;…
For the duration: The safekeeping of American herbaria…
The bombing of the military complex at Pearl Harbor, on December 7,…