Today was a lab day, where we ID’ed plants we brought back from the field that we hadn’t been able to figure out, after which we pressed them so we can continue to look at them in the coming weeks. For some IDs we looked through the Garden’s herbarium, which is stacks of pressed plants ranging from local (Cook County) to very foreign (international) and any distance in between! We found pressed plants from as far back as the 1930s too!
Herbarium stack (they roll!)
Example of a herbarium page, dated 1977
