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Websites and search portals for herbarium data
- iDigBio: digitization specimens from US collections
- GBIF : global biodiversity database based on specimens and observations
- Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium Portal
- Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium
- Pteridophyte Collections Consortium
- Consortium of North American Bryophyte Herbaria (CNABH)
- Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria (CNALH)
- Mycology Collections Portal
- USDA-Plants: federal government website in USA, with information about native and naturalized plants
- Bionomia: information about collectors of specimens, worldwide
Organizations
The Value of Herbaria
American Society of Plant Taxonomists’s statement of herbaria (108k PDF)
Publications and Posters about Chrysler Herbarium
- Poster Chrysler Herbarium (1mb PDF)
- Poster David Fairbrothers (979k PDF)
- Poster Fungal Collection (276k PDF)
Plant systematics (taxonomy, classification, floristics, and phylogeny)
- A Checklist of the Mosses of New Jersey by Kerry Barringer 2021
- A Checklist of the Hornworts (Anthocerotophyta) and Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) of New Jersey by Kerry Barringer 2021
- A Preliminary List of the Plasmodial Slime Molds (Myxomycota)of New Jersey by Kerry Barringer 2008-2009
- AlgaeBase: global database about algae
- Index Fungorum
Floras, Checklists, and Identification Keys
- Flora of Southeastern United States: New Jersey by Alan Weakley et al. (website, app, and pdf download from UNC website)
- Field Guide to the Moss Genera in New Jersey by Keith Bowman (download, 16MB PDF)
- Flora of New Jersey Project
Apps and digital tools for species identification and observation
- iNaturalist – community scientist online and app tool, database, and discovery machine for rare and common species of all organismal groups.
- SEEK (app to identify species using real-time live camera on your phone, can be linked to iNaturalist)
- FloraQuest (the app linked to Flora of Southeastern United States, covers about 5,000 wildflowers, trees, shrubs, grasses, and other vascular plants that occur outside of cultivation)