The Missouri Botanical Garden now boasts the largest herbarium in North America, with more than 7-million plant samples, or specimens. And taxonomist Charlotte Taylor has her own special distinction.

An Herbarium is an archive of pressed and dried specimens that allow students ... We have cones from sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana), that produce the largest cones in North America and tiny alpine ...

The Clifford herbarium contains over 3,000 specimens collected by George Clifford (1685-1760), a wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant. The herbarium is built with plants from Clifford's own garden - many of ...