Notes from Nature

Team

All contributions to this project are archived permanently in the C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium, and made available to the world through our open-access online database: www.nybg.org/vh.

You can learn more about the fascinating stories told by the specimens we uncover by checking out [The Hand Lens](+tab+http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/the-hand-lens/)

Results

Research

Discover historic specimens and drive global plant research at one of the world's largest herbaria!

Notes from Nature - NYBG

Follow the links below to our active virtual expeditions! While viewing photographs of preserved plant specimens, you’ll be asked to decipher typed and handwritten labels, then answer questions about the geographic and historical origin of each plant collection.