For those interested, you can search through the collections of herbariums all over north America through portals such as the Consortium of Midwest Herbaria[0], in Europe through digHerb [1], and throughout the rest of the world through many other symbiota portals [2].
You can find your nearest brick and mortar herbarium globally through Index Herbariorum[3]. Though these resources are incomplete, they are pretty extensive regardless.
Also for those in the States, contact your local state University extension office. They know of local resources like this that aren't widely advertised/don't have an online presence.
It is very important that we treat the natural world like data that needs a backup. The environment changes so fast that we will lose the history of these plants if we do not save them in a digital format. This collection gives us a way to check the past against the future so we can see what has been lost.
tl;dw: Knowing the name of something gives you no knowledge of that thing even if you can name it in every language but it's super useful to know when communicating with others.
For those interested, you can search through the collections of herbariums all over north America through portals such as the Consortium of Midwest Herbaria[0], in Europe through digHerb [1], and throughout the rest of the world through many other symbiota portals [2].
You can find your nearest brick and mortar herbarium globally through Index Herbariorum[3]. Though these resources are incomplete, they are pretty extensive regardless.
[0]https://midwestherbaria.org/portal/collections/search/index....
[1]https://digiherb.symbiota.org/
[2] https://symbiota.org/symbiota-portals/
[3]https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/
Also for those in the States, contact your local state University extension office. They know of local resources like this that aren't widely advertised/don't have an online presence.
It is very important that we treat the natural world like data that needs a backup. The environment changes so fast that we will lose the history of these plants if we do not save them in a digital format. This collection gives us a way to check the past against the future so we can see what has been lost.
Neat to see doi implemented as intended, where identifiers link to items that not articles.
Missed opportunity to name it “The Hibernian Herbarium”.
Not a very user friendly website IMHO. Surprised it doesn't list the Irish language names of many of these plants (as far as I could see).
scientifically the only names that matter are the botanic binomials (ICN or ICNafp)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Nomencla...
I was specifically interested in the Irish names, because they are related to some research I have been doing for a number of years.
The Latin names are available in numerous other sources.
Richard Feynman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_7j72CVlc
The names of birds.
tl;dw: Knowing the name of something gives you no knowledge of that thing even if you can name it in every language but it's super useful to know when communicating with others.
Scientifically, communication matters. Therefore, other names do also matter.
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