|
|
 |
Northern Ontario Plant Database |
|
| |
Who collects the plants in an herbarium?
Most of the herbarium specimens in our partner herbaria were collected by local botanists, researchers,
and university students, but some specimens were received as an exchange from other parts of Canada or
foreign countries. Due to time and monetary constraints, specimens from counties outside of North
America have not been included in this database.
At the Great Lakes Forestry Centre, many of the specimens were collected by former Canadian Forest
Service research scientists, such as Dr. F.E. Fye, Dr. John K. Jeglum, and Dr. Richard Sims. In addition
to voucher specimens collected from their research sites, specimens collected during their Ph.D. research
are also included in the herbarium. The Claude E. Garton Herbarium at Lakehead University has a large
number of plants collected by Claude Garton and other researchers involved in floristic studies of the
Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, and Clay Belt regions, including S.T.B. Losee, W.K.W. Baldwin, Bernard
Boivin, and Shan Walshe, who also collected many of the specimens in the Quetico
Herbarium. Student collections comprise most of the specimens in local university herbaria, except for Sault College, whose
nearly 1450 specimen vascular plant collection was contracted out to S.G. Newmaster. This recent herbarium collection,
which is used primarily in plant identification courses at Sault College, contains approximately 6-20+
replicates of 119 vascular plant species, all collected during the 2000 field season.
Information about botanists who have contributed substantial numbers of specimens to the herbaria in partnership with the Northern Ontario Plant Database Project can be accessed through the Collector Biographies link.
|
 |
| More >> |
|
|
|
|
|
