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Fairchild Tropical Garden Botanical Resource Center: The Virtual Herbarium

Hosted by the Botanical Resource Center at the Fairchild Tropical Garden (FTG), the Virtual Herbarium contains text and photographic data for specimens in the FTG Herbarium. The Virtual Herbarium currently houses "over 30,000 records with photos in the JPEG format and labels as gif images. These records are searchable by family, genus, collector and other fields." In the future, the Virtual...

http://www.virtualherbarium.org/
The D.C. Herbarium

The D.C. Herbarium, maintained by the Smithsonian Institution, is a collection of those plants found in the Washington, D.C. - Baltimore, MD region. This Web site allows users to query the online database for plants of interest and includes an image and distribution map for most species, and an estimated map location for most specimens. The site also contains an image gallery of D.C. area flora...

https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/botany
U.S. National Herbarium: Algal Collection

The Algal Collection of the U.S. National Herbarium, part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, "is represented by over 219,548 accessioned and inventoried herbarium specimens preserved on herbarium sheets." The Collection includes estuarine, marine, freshwater, airborne, and terrestrial algae; however, macroscopic and marine comprise the principal holdings. In...

https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/botany
University and Jepson Herbaria

The University of California Berkeley's "University Herbarium (UC) and Jepson Herbarium (JEPS) represent the largest collection of herbarium material west of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the largest at a public university in the United States." Visitors can discover the scientific uses of the many specimens held in the UC, which was established in 1895. The website describes the JEPS's...

https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/
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University of Florida Herbarium Collections Catalog

The University of Florida Herbarium collection contains over 450,000 specimens in the vascular plant and bryophyte and lichen collections. Currently, over 55,000 of these specimens are available on this searchable database. The project was sponsored by a range of institutions, including the United States Department of Agriculture, the Florida Museum of Natural History, and the Florida Center for...

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/herbarium/collections/abou...