MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A rare collection of plant specimens dating back to the 1840s and originating from the southeastern United States has arrived at the herbarium at Virginia Tech.

Does the word herbarium bring up the image of a lush garden filled with luxuriant plants? Think again. An herbarium actually serves as a type of natural history museum, an archive of preserved plant ...

The old plants are doing new work, and they're a large and beautiful collection in a small space. Upstairs in a corner of the Natural Sciences building on campus, curator Shannon Kimball watches over ...

AMES, Iowa – The offices on the perimeter of the third floor of Bessey Hall on the Iowa State University campus have windows. A complex of four adjacent interior rooms across the hallway from those ...

A new Atlas of Living Australia grant will help digitise 16,000 plant specimens at Macquarie University, filling critical ...

There’s a new effort underway make hundreds of thousands of dried and preserved plants collected along the East Coast available through a digital database. For centuries, explorers, scientists, and ...