For the Colorado region folks

Here is a link that might be useful: CU Bolder Botany database tools

For midwestern folks. Over 600,000 specimens in the collection at Iowa State University.

Here is a link that might be useful: Iowa State Univ. Herbarium

"An herbarium is a collection of dried plants ... a plant morgue if you will..."

i personally like to think that its more like a plant library than a morgue:)

and if ya'll didnt already realize it, im quite fond of them.

froggy

Hello Froggy ...

I too am very fond of them too ... use to work very late nights in a herbarium ... so I felt like I was in kind of a "Morgue" .. rolling plants back and forth to my office LOL ... a library is certainly a better description.

Any links you can add ??

Good Day ....

I saw one specimen supposedly collected by a C. Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle ... on loan from Kew.

Here is a link that might be useful: The Eyes of Texas are Upon You

Any links to where I can find out how to gather/preserve, mount, label, etc?

And the conditions necessary to hold such a collection as an individual rather than an organisation? Fridge? Silica gel? The wine cellar? (Just kidding!)

What are the features most important to a future researcher - in addition to the plant material?

Guidance, please.

Vetivert
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Here is a link that might be useful: dried plants & plowers forum

This may help a bit ...

http://www.herbariumsupply.com/nu_dynamicIndex.asp

Good Day ...

Rosa, Your herbarium info and other info/links on dried flowers forum is so helpful for us amateur botanists... Thanks so much.

-blushing-Thanks, Ginny...
Too bad I can't spell worth a darn, "dried plowers" (hahaha)

I was a dried Plower once...

But, I drank some water and I'm doing Much better now. :)

*runs from the thread just ahead of the rotten fruit being flung*

Thank you,'gourmet de-hy(drated)' folk. Link information appreciated and kept for future reference.

Here is a nice site and a great garden / herbarium ...

http://www.mobot.org/

Good Day ...

If I lived closer to Boston I might be hanging out here:

Here is a link that might be useful: Harvard University Herbaria

An online herbarium for the Chicago region is listed below.

V.

Here is a link that might be useful: vPlants

This North Carolina site sponsored by the NC Botanical Garden, the UNC Herbarium, and the UNC School of Library and Information Science is great. It includes a virtual herbarium as well as other resources.

Shelley

Here is a link that might be useful: Plant Information Center