Amid an extinction crisis, dried plant collections capture how the world is changing. But Duke University is planning to shut down its world-renowned herbarium.

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Iowa State’s herbarium also is a powerful opportunity for hands-on student instruction. Biological and premedical illustration students use specimens as subjects, and students in Clark’s plant ...

Duke’s collection of more than 800,000 specimens of fungi, plants and algae makes the herbarium one of the largest in the country. The move to close it has drawn criticism from faculty and ...

The Agnes Marion Ayre Herbarium on Mount Scio Road in St. John's houses over 100,000 dried and pressed plant specimens from ...

For example, Andrew Griebeler, assistant professor of art, art history and visual studies, utilizes the herbarium’s resources in his research — studying botanical illustration and providing ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

The herbarium at the Denver Botanic Gardens houses 100,000 collections of arthropods, plants, and mushrooms.