A herbarium houses a collection of pressed, dried
plants. Each herbarium specimen contains actual plant
material as well as label information detailing attributes
of the specimen such as the collector/s, date of collection,
and collection site details (e.g., geopolitical location,
GPS coordinates, locality).
A herbarium records the past, providing users with
documented occurrences of plants in specific locations
over time. Users of a traditional herbarium include
the following:
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