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Scientific publications by Rutgers researchers facilitated by collections and activities in Chrysler Herbarium (selected):

  • Rothfels, C., et al. [c. 70 authors]. 2025. The PteridoPortal: A publicly accessible collection of over three million records of extant and extinct pteridophytes. Applications in Plant Sciences 2025; 13:e70003 http://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.70003
  • Schmidt, R., K. Saban, L. Struwe. & C. Davis. 2025. The collector practices that shape spatial, temporal, and taxonomic bias in herbaria. New Phytologist . https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70297
  • Waters, D., L. Struwe, & J. Lendemer. 2025. The lichens and allied fungi of Wickecheoke Creek Preserve, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, U.S.A.: A Baseline Pre-Hurricane Ida. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 152: 402-423. https://doi.org/10.3159/TORREY-D-24-00049.1
  • Young, B., B. Thiers, J. White, & L. Struwe. 2025. Endophytic bacteria discovered in oil body organelles of the liverworts Marchantia polymorpha and Radula complanata. American Journal of Botany 112: e70017. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70017
  • Schmidt, R.J., J.M. Johnston, & L. Struwe. 2024. Waif to invasive: Transatlantic migration and survival of grasses introduced to North America with pre-20th century ship ballast. International Journal of Plant Sciences 105:  https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/730539
  • Zuntini, A. et al. [over 100 authors). 2024. Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms. Nature 629: 843–850. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07324-0  [angiosperm phylogeny of all 64 orders, all 416 families, and 58% of genera in the world – based on 353 nuclear genes]
  • Schmidt, R.J., M.R. King, M.F.J. Aronson, & L. Struwe. 2023. Hidden Cargo: the impact of historical shipping trade on the recent-past and contemporary non-native flora of northeastern United States. American Journal of Botany 110: e16224. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16224  
  • Poster, L.S., J.S. Pringle, & L. Struwe. 2015. Identification and descriptions of the Gentianaceae in New Jersey. Bartonia 67: 1-34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43233851
  • Pringle, J., L.S. Poster, & L. Struwe.2015.Nomenclature and typification of the Gentianaceae in New Jersey. Bartonia 67: 35-57.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/43233852
  • Eisenman, S.W., H.R. Juliani, L. Struwe, & J.E. Simon. 2013. Essential oil diversity in North American wild tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus L.) with comparisons to French and Kyrgyz tarragon. Industrial Crops and Products 49: 220-232. doi:10.1016/j.indcrop.2013.04.037 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926669013002100
  • Struwe, L. & M. Kinkade. 2013. Revision of Tachia (Gentianaceae: Helieae). Systematic Botany 38(4):1142-1159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1600/036364413X674797
  • Eisenman, S.W., A.O. Tucker, & L. Struwe. 2012. Voucher specimens are essential for documenting source material used in medicinal plant investigations. Journal of Medicinally Active Plants 1: 30-43. doi 10.7275/R50K26HC  http://scholarworks.umass.edu/jmap/vol1/iss1/8
  • Eisenman , S.W, D.E. Zaurov, & L. Struwe (eds.). 2012. Medicinal Plants of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Springer, New York. 340 pp. http://www.amazon.com/Medicinal-Plants-Central-Asia-Uzbekistan/dp/1461439116
  • Molina, J.E., J. Wen, & L. Struwe. 2012. Systematics and biogeography of the non-viny grape relative Leea (Vitales). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 354-376. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01320.x http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01320.x/abstract
  • Popovkin, A.V., K.G. Mathews, J.C. Mendes Santos, M.C. Molina, & L. Struwe. 2011. Spigelia genuflexa (Loganiaceae), a new geocarpic species from the Atlantic forest of northeastern Bahia, Brazil. PhytoKeys 6: 47-56. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.6.1654 http://phytokeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=1384
  • Mathews, K.G., N. Dunne, E. York, & L. Struwe. 2009. A phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Bartonia (Gentianaceae-Gentianeae), based on molecular and morphological evidence. Systematic Botany 34: 162-172. doi 10.1600/036364409787602320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1600/036364409787602320
  • Struwe, L., V.A. Albert, M.F. Calió, C. Frasier, K.B. Lepis, K.G. Mathews, & J.R. Grant. 2009. Evolutionary patterns in neotropical tribe Helieae (Gentianaceae): evidence from morphology, chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences. Taxon 58: 479-499.
    doi: 10.3417/2008040 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/iapt/tax/2009/00000058/00000002/art00013
  • Molina, J. & L. Struwe. 2008. Revision of ring-gentians (Symbolanthus, Gentianaceae) from Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, with a first assessment of conservation status. Systematics & Biodiversity 6: 477-501. doi:10.1017/S1477200008002740
  • Molina, J. & L. Struwe. 2004. Neuburgia novocaledonica, comb. nov. and the first record of domatia in the family Loganiaceae. Australian Systematic Botany 17: 399-406. doi:10.1071/SB03021
  • Bischoff, J.F., R.F. Sullivan, N.L. Hywel-Jones, L. Struwe, & J.F. White, Jr. 2003. Resurrection of Blistum tomentosum and its exclusion from Polycephalomyces (Hyphomycetes, Deuteromycota) based on 28S rDNA sequence data. Mycotaxon 86: 433-444. http://www.mycotaxon.com/vol/abstracts/86/86-433.html
  • Grant, J.R. & L. Struwe. 2003. De Macrocarpaeae Grisebach (ex Gentianaceis) speciebus novis III: Six new species of moon-gentians (Macrocarpaea, Gentianaceae: Helieae) from Parque Nacional Podocarpus, Ecuador. Harvard Papers in Botany 8: 61-81. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41761781
  • Struwe, L. 2003. Revision of Bolivian Symbolanthus (Gentianaceae – Helieae). Harvard Papers in Botany 8: 19-24. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41761777
  • Struwe, L. 2003. Two new winged species of Symbolanthus (Gentianaceae: Helieae) from Colombia. Novon 13: 133-140. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3393578

Scientific Publications by non-Rutgers researchers based on collections in Chrysler Herbarium (selected articles; this research has recently been facilitated by the increasing availability of digitized specimens online through GBIF, iDigBio, and similar search portals creating worldwide access to herbaria)

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Educational publications based on collections and activities in Chrysler Herbarium (selected):

  • Campbell, L. G., B. Montgomery, M. King, J. Hall, & L. Struwe. 2025. Students in the wild: Safety instruction practices in distance-taught biological laboratory and field classes. American Biology Teacher 87(1):13-19. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2025.87.1.13
  • Frazee, L.J., S. Morris-Marano, J. Blake-Mahmud, & L. Struwe. 2016. Eat your weeds: edible and wild plants in urban environmental education and outreach. Plant Science Bulletin Summer 2016: 72-84.
  • Pollock, N.B., N. Howe, N.I. Irizarry, N. Lorusso, A. Kruger, K. Himmler, & L. Struwe. 2015. Personal BioBlitz: a new way to encourage biodiversity discovery and knowledge in k-99 education and outreach. BioScience 65 (12): 1154-1164. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biv140 
  • Shappell, L., J. Blake, B. Angell, & L. Struwe. 2015. Field guide to weedy plants of the Eastern US. Chrysler Herbarium, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ.
  • Shappell, L., J. Blake, B. Angell, & L. Struwe. 2015. Weedy grasses & grass-like plants of the Eastern US. Chrysler Herbarium, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ.
  • Struwe, L., L.S. Poster, N. Howe, C.B. Zambell, & P.W. Sweeney. 2014. The hands-on, online learning project Flora of Rutgers Campus: campus floras as a student learning tool for plant systematics. Plant Science Bulletin 60: 159-169. doi: 10.3732/psb.1400008 http://www.academia.edu/24172013/The_making_of_a_student-driven_online_campus_flora_an_example_from_Rutgers_University
  • Kellogg, J., G. Joseph, K. Andrae-Marobela, A. Sosome, C.G. Flint, S. Komarnytsky, G. Fear, L. Struwe, I. Raskin, & M. Lila. 2010. Screens-to-nature: opening doors to traditional knowledge and hands-on science education. NACTA Journal Sept 2010: 41-48. http://www.nactateachers.org/attachments/article/409/Kellogg_September_2010_NACTA_JOURNAL-10.pdf
  • Peters, W., M.P. Kinkade, A.M. Pohlit, & L. Struwe. 2005. Tachia field guide. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, & Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônica (INPA), Manaus, Brazil. http://gentian.rutgers.edu/reffiles/Tachia_brochure_English.pdf
  • Peters, W., M.F. Calió, M.P. Kinkade, A.M. Pohlit, & L. Struwe. 2005. Guia de Campo para Tachia. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, & Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônica (INPA), Manaus, Brazil. http://gentian.rutgers.edu/reffiles/Tachia_brochure_Portuguese.pdf
  • Peters, W., R. Cortés-B., M.P. Kinkade, A.M. Pohlit, & L. Struwe. 2005. Guía de Campo de Tachia. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, & Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônica (INPA), Manaus, Brazil. http://gentian.rutgers.edu/reffiles/Tachia_brochure_Spanish.pdf

Posters, abstracts, and talks based on education and outreach related to Chrysler Herbarium by Rutgers staff and faculty (selected):

  • Struwe, L. 2025. The painter Hilma af Klint and botanical education in 1800s Sweden. Botany 2025 conference, Palm Springs, CA, July 26-30, 2025.
  • King, M. & L. Struwe. 2024. A Model for Experiential Learning and Broader Educational Impacts in Collections: Creating an Herbarium Army for Rutgers University’s students., SPNCH-TDGW conference, September 2-6, 2024, Okinawa, Japan.
  • Struwe, L., M. King, R. Schmidt, A. Weeks, E. Manzitto-Tripp. 2024. The true value of herbaria – an interdisciplinary and updated summary why natural history collections will help save the world. SPNCH-TDGW conference, 2-6 September 2024, Okinawa, Japan.
  • Struwe. L., & A. Ivarsson. 2024. AI-squared: Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence in Botanical Education, Risks and Opportunities in a Changing World. Botany 2024 conference, Grand Rapids, MI, June 16-19, 2024.
  • Struwe. L., M. King, S. Krosnick, R. Schmidt, A. Weeks, & E. Manzitto-Tripp. 2024. An assessment of the true value of herbaria: An updated version of Vicki Funk’s list of 100 uses for herbaria, 20 years later. Botany 2024 conference, Grand Rapids, MI, June 16-19, 2024.
  • Vaccaro, N., L. Struwe, & M. King. 2024. Specimen Stories: Using Herbaria to Explore Time with Plants, Places, and People. Botany 2024 conference, Grand Rapids, MI, June 16-19, 2024.
  • Vaccaro, N., L. Struwe, & J. White. 2024. Improving Biological Education: Using Bryophytes to Expand Scientific Learning. Botany 2024 conference, Grand Rapids, MI, June 16-19, 2024.
  • Struwe, L. & M. Nucci. 2023. Seeing and questioning plants – a botanical perspective on nature journaling at the college level. Botany 2023 conference, Boise, ID, July 23-26, 2023.
  • Struwe, L. 2021. Specimen Stories: Student exploration of places, plants, and people using herbaria. Botany 2021 virtual conference, July 19-23, 2021.
  • King, M. & L. Struwe. 2020. How collections-based undergraduate research adapted to a pandemic: A case study of the Herbarium Army at Rutgers University. Botany 2020 virtual conference. July 27-31, 2020.
  • Struwe, L. 2020. Remote active learning in botany using your students’ homes and neighborhoods – an opportunity and a challenge. Botany 2020 virtual conference. July 27-31, 2020.
  • Helsel, R., N. Howe, M. King, L. Struwe, & D. Waters. 2019. The life after digitization: examples from the lichen and bryophyte collections at Chrysler Herbarium (Rutgers University, New Jersey. Third Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, New Haven, CT, June 10-12, 2019.
  • King, M., J. Borden, D. Jaikumar, G. Donato, R. Helsel, E. Popp, K. Svoboda, E. Tillett, M. Furci, & L. Struwe. 2019. The broadest impacts: The inadvertent and unexpected building of life skills from biodiversity collection digitization in Rutgers’ undergraduate Herbarium Army. Third Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, New Haven, CT, June 10-12, 2019.
  • Struwe, L. 2019. iNaturalist as a tool for biodiversity engagement, formal and informal education, and campus species inventories. Botany 2019 conference, Tucson, AZ, July 27-31, 2019.
  • Struwe, L., M. Aronson, T. Besancon, M. Heberling, N. Howe, & M. King. 2019. Fostering engagement and discovery using digital data: examples from iNaturalist and other observation platforms and herbarium specimen data. Third Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, New Haven, CT, June 10-12, 2019
  • King, M., M. Aronson, S. Irelan, & L. Struwe. 2018. The MAM project at Rutgers University – Digitization of the Mid-Atlantic Flora to investigate urban floristic changes. Botany 2018 conference, Rochester, MN, July 21-25, 2018.
  • Struwe, L. 2018. The love and hate of dandelions: The botanical background for symbolism of dandelions in contemporary society. Botany 2018 conference, Rochester, MN, July 21-25, 2018.
  • Struwe, L. 2017. Teaching about biodiversity in the age of digital distraction and opportunity – learning how, when, and what? BioSyst-EU 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden, 17 August 2017.
  • Struwe, L. & N. Howe. 2017. Discovery and learning of everyday biodiversity using iNaturalist-driven bioblitzes and campus inventories. 4th Life Discovery – Doing Science Education conference, Norman, OK, October 19-21, 2017.
  • Struwe, L. & M. King. 2017. How to create opportunities in research, education, and outreach through the formation of an undergraduate Herbarium Army. Association of Southeastern Biologists Meeting, Montgomery, AL, March 29-31 – April 1, 2017
  • Ray, J., R. Artigues, J. Azzolini, R. Buczynski, V. Cusimano, R. Fastige, G. Hess, N. Howe, M. King, T. Lin, C. Olivares, R. Rodriguez, A. Sun, & L. Struwe. 2016. The undergraduate Herbarium Army at Rutgers University: Promoting interaction between students and scientific collections in teaching, research, and outreach.  Botany 2016, Savannah, GA, July 30-August 3, 2016. [poster]
  • Mumich, M.M., K. Reeds, & L. Struwe. 2016. Women of the Chrysler Herbarium: Barbara F. Palser and Erica M. Frank. Botany 2016, Savannah, GA, July 30-August 3, 2016. [poster]
  • King, M., R. Buzcynski, J. White, & L. Struwe. 2016. It Takes an Army: How a legion of undergraduates is updating the Chrysler Herbarium. Consortium of Northeastern Herbaria meeting, Providence, RI, June 29, 2016
  • Blake, J. & L. Struwe. 2015. #notthatkindofweed: Using spontaneous weedy plants in elementary to college level education. Botany 2015, Edmonton, Canada, July 25-29, 2015.
  • Struwe, L. 2015. Teaching botany skills to a new student generation formed by our digital and instant world – learning how, when, and what? Botany 2015, Edmonton, Canada, July 25-29, 2015.
  • Struwe, L., N. Howe, I. Irizarry, N. Lorusso, A. Kruger, N. Pollock, & S.R. Loarie. 2015. Personal BioBlitzing increases biodiversity awareness, excitement of science, and engages people at all educational and age levels. Botany 2015, Edmonton, Canada, July 25-29, 2015.
  • Struwe, L., A. Anholt, J. Baumgarten, N. Howe, & N. Pollock. 2014. Personal Bioblitz: a new way to encourage biodiversity knowledge in K-99 education and outreach. Botany 2014, Boise, ID, July 26-30, 2014 [poster]
  • Spitz, L., C.B. Zambell, P.W. Sweeney, & L. Struwe. 2012. FoRC: Flora of Rutgers Campus as an educational research project. Botany 2012, Columbus, OH, 7-11 July 2012. [poster]