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History of UT Botany, Part 2: the Herbaria

History of UT Botany, Part 2: the Herbaria

This is an updated post that originally ran on March 13, 2017 in the Integrative Biology History Project    Lundell Herbarium 1964 specimen of Hibiscus lasiocarpus Cav. Few landmarks on the UT campus are as iconic as the Tower, visible to thousands daily as part of the Austin skyscape. Yet, not many people realize that eight diffe...

Citizen-Scientists Project at Stengl Lost Pines

image 1 web L to R: Kathy Cox, Susan Schroeder, Kathy McAleese, Megan Lowery, Nancy Rabensburg, Betty Henley, Carolyn Turman – Displaying newly mounted plant vouchers for the herbarium By Kathy McAleese It all started in the fall of 2018.  A group of friends were beginning a project to remove invasive and aggressive plants from an old pastur...

Through the Herbarium Cabinet: a Student View of the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center

Sarah 2 webby Sarah Hunter This summer, through the ongoing haze of the COVID-19 global pandemic, I had the unique opportunity to explore the inner workings of the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center at UT. The Herbarium Curation Summer Graduate Fellowship program allowed me three months of hands-on training in the varied aspects of herbarium curat...

New Grant Funding for the UT Herbaria

Sarracenia alata web  Herbarium specimen of Sarracenia alata, a species of pitcher plant also known as yellow trumpets.  This unusual species grows in nutrient poor, acidic wetlands from eastern Texas through the Gulf Coastal Plain to westernmost Florida. Natural history museums and other biodiversity collections hold millions of historically and scie...

The History of UT's Herbaria

SpecimenThis article first appeared in the History Project for the Department of Integrative Biology on March 13, 2017    Lundell Herbarium 1964 specimen of Hibiscus lasiocarpus Cav. Few landmarks on the UT campus are as iconic as the Tower, visible to thousands daily as part of the Austin skyscape. Yet, not many people realize that eight...