Welcome
Welcome to Herbaria@home, a ground-breaking new approach to digitising and documenting the archives of the UK's herbaria. This site provides a web-based method for documenting herbarium sheets. We welcome participation in the project, so please read more about the project and if you would like to help then get involved!
We will keep participants informed with regular progress updates and statistics and all specimens docmented are immediately made available and searchable on the web.
Current progress
30234 herbarium specimens have been documented so far.
We are currently concentrating efforts on sheets from Aberystwyth University, Launceston museum and Birmingham University.
We welcome new volunteers to document sheets. Please have a go and send feedback if you have any problems.
Pyrola rotundifolia subsp. maritima
Documented on November 16th by qgroom.
Welcome to new members
- bob ellis
- lizzit
- horse28good@...
My sheets
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New Users:
We welcome new volunteers! You can join here or if you want to try documenting straight away then please click here to be allocated a set, or choose from the lists below.
This is the list of sheet photos which have currently been allocated to you to document or edit. If you have finished with these then please release them back into the pool.
Sheets to document
The allocation link above will pick a set of specimens automatically, alternatively you can choose to document sheets from a particular project or herbarium from the list below or search by genus for a particular set of sheets to work on.
| project | complete/available/total |
|---|---|
| British and Irish Flowering Plants | (24201 / 16992 / 41454) |
| UK Aliens | (2213 / 230 / 2448) |
| collection | complete/available/total |
|---|---|
| University of Birmingham | (4437 / 16028 / 20586) |
| Aberystwyth University Herbarium | (12164 / 2485 / 14794) |
Search for a particular genus or species to document.
Alternatively, click here to search amongst the specimens that have already been documented.
Completed sheets
Sets of sheets that have been fully documented.
| collection | sheets |
|---|---|
| Manchester Museum | (6472) |
| Shrewsbury School | (2372) |
| Cambridge University | (765) |
| Launceston Museum | (723) |
| National Museums Liverpool | (424) |
| Oxford University | (347) |
| National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin | (213) |
