Difference between revisions of "Plant Collection"

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[[Sandberg Collection Families|John Sandberg Plant Database]]
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鶹Ƶ is home to a large collection of plants, both living and preserved.
  
*John Sandberg was a Swedish born botanist who collected extensively in the Northern Midwest and Rocky Mountains of North America during the the 1880s. The Minnesota portion of his collection is housed here. Some other places where his collections are housed include: New York University, Harvard University, and the Smithsonian Museum.
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The [[The 鶹Ƶ Greenhouse|鶹Ƶ Greenhouse]] was renovated in 2020 and holds 100s of plant species at any given time. The greenhouse is maintained by the biology department and various student workers. The greenhouse is found on the third floor of the Nobel Science Building.  
  
[[Swedish Collection Families|Swedish Plant Collection]]
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The [[The 鶹Ƶ Herbarium | 鶹Ƶ Herbarium]] is a collection of preserved plant specimens found in Nobel. The herbarium contains many local and international specimens collected by various students, faculty and researchers. The oldest specimen in the collection was collected in 1880 and new specimens are being added almost every year. Two herbarium collections that have been partially digitized are the [[Sandberg Collection Families|John Sandberg Plant Database]] and the [[Swedish Collection Families|Swedish Plant Collection]].
  
*This collection contains many specimens collected in Sweden by Swedish and American collectors in the 1880s. 
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The [[Families]] page is the full digitized collection of both living and preserved specimens.
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Herbarium is in Nobel 333.
 
 
 
*The oldest specimen is 1880.
 
 
 
*The most recent acquisition is 2016
 
 
*You might be surprised to know that we have several specimens from Sweden.
 
 
*Local specimens include species found in the Saint Peter Area.
 
 
 
*We have many collections from John Sandberg a well-known collector, who collected throughout Minnesota and the Western United States.
 
 
 
Clicking on the following link will bring you to the Families page of the Systematics Website [[Families]]
 

Revision as of 13:30, 14 November 2022

鶹Ƶ is home to a large collection of plants, both living and preserved.

The 鶹Ƶ Greenhouse was renovated in 2020 and holds 100s of plant species at any given time. The greenhouse is maintained by the biology department and various student workers. The greenhouse is found on the third floor of the Nobel Science Building.

The 鶹Ƶ Herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens found in Nobel. The herbarium contains many local and international specimens collected by various students, faculty and researchers. The oldest specimen in the collection was collected in 1880 and new specimens are being added almost every year. Two herbarium collections that have been partially digitized are the John Sandberg Plant Database and the Swedish Plant Collection.

The Families page is the full digitized collection of both living and preserved specimens.