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Herbarium Specimens of Tennessee

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Contact

Joey Shaw

Organization

Tennessee Herbarium Consortium

Partners

The Southeastern Regional Network of Expertise and Collections

Funding Source

National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation

Description

Digitizing the herbaria of Tennessee

Tennessee is centrally located in a geologically and botanically diverse region, making it critically important to understanding eastern North American biogeography and floristics. Our state spans ecologically variable environments from mountains to barrens to the Mississippi River floodplains. Due to a complicated evolutionary history, TN is a botanical crossroads for floristic elements from the Gulf Coastal Plain, the eastern temperate forests, and the Midwestern prairies. There are 11 herbaria in TN, yet our current understanding of the distribution of plants comes only from the three largest collections. Nine smaller herbarium collections, collectively containing over 125,000 specimens, have traditionally been underutilized in botanical studies. We have created this digitization project to begin the process of databasing Tennessee's collections.

Incentives

Support Research and Conservation by Improving Information Resources

Geographic Scope

Tennessee!

Taxonomic Scope

Fern and Fern Allies

Expeditions

36 Expeditions 166592 Digitizations 3184 Participants
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Plants of Coffee County, Tennessee

This expedition will be used to help a graduate student gather data for a Flora of Bark Camp Barrens WMA, Coffee County, Tennessee.

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Plants of Dade and Walker Counties, Georgia

This expedition will be used to aid a graduate student collecting floristic data in Cloudland Canyon State Park, Dade County, Georgia

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Plants of the Southern Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee

Plant specimens collected in Sequatchie, Grundy, and Marion counties of Tennessee

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Plants of North Central Tennessee (Robertson, Sumner, Macon, Trousdale, and Smith Counties)

Plants of North Central Tennessee

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Plants of Tennessee’s Northeastern Extent of the Ridge and Valley and Cumberland Plateau

Digitizing herbarium specimens from Hancock, Claiborne, Union, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Anderson, Scott, and Campbell counties

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Ferns and Fern Allies of Tennessee, Part 1

A Sneak Peak Into Tennessee's Herbaria. Let's get started with Fern and Fern Allies!

5989 Digitizations

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Ferns and Fern Allies of Tennessee, Part 2

A Dive Into Tennessee's Ferns and Fern Allies.

5717 Digitizations

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Plants of Western Tennessee

Western Tennessee's flora is the most under represented in Tennessee, lets fill these knowledge gaps!

5677 Digitizations

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Tennessee Invaders

Help a graduate student gather data for her thesis research on Tennessee's most unwanted plants.

4066 Digitizations

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Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains - Sevier County

A selection of specimens from Sevier County

5797 Digitizations

99.86% Completed

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Tennessee Invaders Part II

Continue to help a graduate student gather data for her thesis research on Tennessee's most unwanted plants.

3408 Digitizations

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Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains - Blount County

A selection of specimens from Blount County Tennessee

8185 Digitizations

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Tennessee Invaders Part III

Help a UTC graduate student compile a large database to further her research on the distribution and spread of these Tennessee invaders.

2833 Digitizations

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Tennessee's Carter County

A selection of specimens from Carter County Tennessee

7081 Digitizations

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Tennessee Invaders Part IV

Help a UTC graduate student compile a large database to further her research on the distribution and spread of these Tennessee invaders.

3525 Digitizations

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Tennessee Buttercups and Friends - Spring Refresher

Refresh your memory of the names of buttercups in Tennessee before spring arrives by transcribing specimens from across the state.

6439 Digitizations

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Spring Mustards of Tennessee - Spring Refresher

Transcribe records of the Tennessee mustards commonly seen during spring

6526 Digitizations

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Showy Trees of Tennessee - Spring Refresher

Transcribe records of Tennessee's showy trees appearing in spring

8781 Digitizations

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Tennessee Invaders Part V

Help a UTC graduate student compile a large database to further her research on the distribution and spread of these Tennessee invaders.

4286 Digitizations

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Ferns and Conifers of Tennessee - Spring Refresher

Discover the gymnosperms and ferns of Tennessee by transcribing herbaria specimens

6483 Digitizations

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Spring Trilliums, Lilies, and Irises - Spring Refresher

Help us transcribe the spring trilliums, lilies, and irises of Tennessee!

5798 Digitizations

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Spring Phloxes and Relatives - Spring Refresher

Explore the spring-flowering phloxes and relatives of Tennessee

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Spring Poppies, Jacks, Sedums, Beauties, Valerians, and Violets - Spring Refresher

Delve into these colorful plants before they pop up this spring in Tennessee!

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Spring Unfriendlies - Spring Refresher

These "unfriendlies" may be off-putting during spring, yet they need transcription too!

4422 Digitizations

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Flora of Tennessee Prairies and Savannas

Explore the flora of the TN prairies and savannas, increasingly rare landscapes across the Southeast

5237 Digitizations

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Tennessee Invaders Part VI

Help a graduate student gather data for her thesis research on Tennessee's most unwanted plants.

6027 Digitizations

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The Flora of Tennessee's Jackson County, Pt. 1

Help us digitize the records of Jackson County, one of the remaining places where native American Chestnut trees are found.

4882 Digitizations

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The Flora of Tennessee's Jackson County, Pt. 2

Help us transcribe the specimens of Jackson County, one of the remaining locations where native American Chestnut trees are found.

4976 Digitizations

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Metal Accumulating Species of Chattanooga, TN

Transcribe metal-accumulating plants from the most polluted city in the 1960s, Chattanooga, TN

2971 Digitizations

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Grab Bag I

All specimens in this expedition have less than 200 specimens! Help UTC students grow the online database for undergrad research!

7673 Digitizations

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Grab Bag II

All specimens in this expedition have less than 300 specimens! Help UTC students grow the online database for undergrad research!

5679 Digitizations

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Grab Bag III

All specimens in this expedition have less than 100 specimens! Help UTC students grow the online database for undergrad research!

20469 Digitizations

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Plants of Big South Fork, Tennessee

Help us better understand the beautiful and diverse flora within Big South Fork by digitizing specimens in and around the park

6640 Digitizations

100.00% Completed

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Digitizations

Heat Map Digitized Specimens

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