Biospex Projects

Build the historical baseline for plant diversity and distribution in Florida.

• 63 Expeditions
• 344712 Digitizations
• 6427 Participants

Ants are essential to the life of over 11,000 plant species worldwide. Help us learn more about this remarkable partnership in Virginia.

• 2 Expeditions
• 4033 Digitizations
• 170 Participants

Explore plant biodiversity of the southeastern United States!

• 6 Expeditions
• 31723 Digitizations
• 714 Participants

Releasing 150 years of accumulated biodiversity knowledge in the Natural State.

• 49 Expeditions
• 366416 Digitizations
• 3518 Participants

Nearly two-thirds of flowering plant species depend on animal pollinators. Help us learn more about this critical partnership in Virginia.

• 2 Expeditions
• 29116 Digitizations
• 610 Participants

Crowdsourcing for Conservation & Climate Change Research @ NYBG

• 46 Expeditions
• 377635 Digitizations
• 2354 Participants

Specimens belonging to the Vanderbilt University Collection (VDB) at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT)

• 1 Expeditions
• 3471 Digitizations
• 145 Participants

The Gulf Coast of Mississippi is one of the richest areas of the state biologically. Help us to document this amazing flora!

• 1 Expeditions
• 7821 Digitizations
• 216 Participants

Herbaria full of information but few have access to what's hidden within. Help us move into the digital world & uncover herbaria wonders.

• 3 Expeditions
• 5233 Digitizations
• 160 Participants

Digitizing the herbaria of Tennessee

• 38 Expeditions
• 199671 Digitizations
• 3184 Participants

Vascular plants sustain herbivorous insects. Help us learn more about this important ecological relationship in Virginia.

• 1 Expeditions
• 13493 Digitizations
• 273 Participants

Help us celebrate warmer weather and longer days by seeking out these short-lived wonders.

• 1 Expeditions
• 2660 Digitizations
• 72 Participants

Vascular plants of West Virginia with seed dispersal by ants.

• 1 Expeditions
• 6773 Digitizations
• 63 Participants

Fungus Among Us considers the 19th-Century fungi collected in South Carolina by Henry William Ravenel

• 1 Expeditions
• 1801 Digitizations
• 111 Participants

Please help us transcribe our herbarium specimens!

• 2 Expeditions
• 6005 Digitizations
• 117 Participants

More trilobites and some Burgess Shale beauties!

• 2 Expeditions
• 3209 Digitizations
• 210 Participants

Help us understand how plants respond to climate across the Southeastern United States!

• 2 Expeditions
• 17349 Digitizations
• 674 Participants

Vascular plants are masters of microbial mutualisms. Help us learn more about this important ecological interaction in Virginia.

• 1 Expeditions
• 13276 Digitizations
• 302 Participants

Please help us transcribe our herbarium specimens!

• 1 Expeditions
• 6070 Digitizations
• 123 Participants

The figworts (formerly Scrophulariaceae) are colorful members of the Virginia flora that sometimes parasitize other plants.

• 1 Expeditions
• 4412 Digitizations
• 50 Participants

Please help us transcribe our herbarium specimens!

• 1 Expeditions
• 7477 Digitizations
• 250 Participants

Wetland plants protect water quality and comprise a unique flora in Virginia. Help us learn more about them – hip-waders not required!

• 1 Expeditions
• 12925 Digitizations
• 174 Participants

Please help us transcribe our herbarium specimens!

• 3 Expeditions
• 12062 Digitizations
• 448 Participants

The flora of Virginia is still being discovered. Help us bring all the species to light!

• 4 Expeditions
• 15683 Digitizations
• 156 Participants

Ferns and lycophytes from the R. Dale Thomas Plant Collection at BRIT

• 6 Expeditions
• 30425 Digitizations
• 477 Participants

Transcription of specimen label data from the Georgia's Columbus State University Herbarium

• 2 Expeditions
• 15051 Digitizations
• 314 Participants

"Sedges have edges" is a helpful mantra in plant ID to spot this tricky group. Try learning Virginia's sedge diversity with this expedition!

• 1 Expeditions
• 13279 Digitizations
• 175 Participants

New and historical specimens from across Texas

• 3 Expeditions
• 21552 Digitizations
• 303 Participants

Specimens belonging to the Vanderbilt University Collection (VDB) at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT)

• 6 Expeditions
• 13668 Digitizations
• 252 Participants

This project will help create data sets to train and test a machine learning algorithm that will detect anomalies in specimen data

• 3 Expeditions
• 52998 Digitizations
• 1695 Participants

Capturing California's flowers: Using digital images to investigate ​phenological change in a biodiversity hotspot​

• 35 Expeditions
• 170392 Digitizations
• 9288 Participants

Pictures worth a thousand words - give or take a few. Specimen images without any data.

• 1 Expeditions
• 2914 Digitizations
• 100 Participants

A wide variety of specimens from Texas and Oklahoma

• 40 Expeditions
• 189398 Digitizations
• 4852 Participants

Ferns and lycophytes from the R. Dale Thomas Plant Collection at BRIT

• 1 Expeditions
• 1934 Digitizations
• 58 Participants

Discover the diversity of plants in the genus Physalis, the ground cherries and tomatillos.

• 1 Expeditions
• 1223 Digitizations
• 85 Participants

Join us for an expedition to document ferns, gymnosperms, and monocots of Texas.

• 4 Expeditions
• 11296 Digitizations
• 445 Participants

Join CU Boulder's Herbarium as we aid the effort to digitize the biocollections of the world!

• 2 Expeditions
• 20019 Digitizations
• 575 Participants

Trees from the R. Dale Thomas Plant Collection at BRIT

• 2 Expeditions
• 12580 Digitizations
• 242 Participants

Help us digitize our 170,000 plant and animal specimens from around the world!

• 2 Expeditions
• 2838 Digitizations
• 132 Participants

Help uncover the diverse specimens of the Lord Fairfax Community College Herbarium, a regional collection with an international flair.

• 1 Expeditions
• 12193 Digitizations
• 359 Participants

Help the S.M. Tracy Herbarium discover their collection contents.

• 2 Expeditions
• 4 Digitizations
• 0 Participants

The goal of this project is to digitize specimens collected near the Walls of Jericho protected area.

• 1 Expeditions
• 5652 Digitizations
• 61 Participants

Expand the publicly accessible database on plant specimens of SC

• 3 Expeditions
• 8394 Digitizations
• 91 Participants

Help us uncover the life's work of Lena Artz, a hidden figure of mid-20th century Virginian botany.

• 3 Expeditions
• 2771 Digitizations
• 88 Participants

Transcribing vascular plants collected in Knox County, Tennessee, U.S.A.

• 1 Expeditions
• 3119 Digitizations
• 0 Participants

Help uncover the Virginia Military Institute Herbarium, a collection with deep roots in the botanical history of the state.

• 1 Expeditions
• 31830 Digitizations
• 0 Participants

Assist graduate students in databasing plant occurrence records found in counties of Southern Tennessee and Northern Alabama

• 3 Expeditions
• 27831 Digitizations
• 0 Participants

Pictures worth a thousand words - give or take a few. Specimen images without any data.

• 1 Expeditions
• 5021 Digitizations
• 127 Participants

Digitizing specimen records for reservoirs along the Tennessee River

• 2 Expeditions
• 15754 Digitizations
• 738 Participants