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Carmen Acedo at University of León, in León, Spain, has gracefully translated the manual The Naming of Plants into Spanish. We are making it available as a free…
Introduction to the manual Preparing a Press for a Plant Collection Assignment in a Remote Field Botany Course by Tobias Policha: Many of us include a collections assignment…
So much of documentation of biodiversity and educational projects today include digital images, but how do you take good photos of plants and features associated with plants (such…
Lena Struwe’s lab group at Rutgers University has developed several resources about common weeds of northeastern North America and these are shared with the public here. They were…
In this activity college students go outside and find ten street trees near their home or school, photograph them, identify them to species, and map them on a…
This is an assignment I use in my Plant Diversity and Evolution class the week before they start their iNaturalist project. The students learn how to take great…
The online college class Intro to Alaska Flora from University of Alaska Fairbanks includes fantastic components developed by botany professor Stefanie Ickert-Bond. These online resources are available for…
This activity uses the citizen science tool iNaturalist for a project for high school and college students that focus on species discovery and identification. Observations are uploaded to…
How did the word ‘herbarium’ come to be? It actually has ancient roots in the deep history of Indo-European languages, and its origin and formation in Latin is…
Looking for a non-technical beginners and intermediate users manual in plant nomenclature that explains scientific names, common names, cultivated and trade names, and what changes in plant classifications…
The manual Field identification of the 50 most common plant families in temperate regions by Lena Struwe is available for download below. (color pdf with images, 60 pages,…