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
69877 herbarium specimens have been documented so far.
We are currently concentrating efforts on sheets from Birmingham University, Bolton Museum and Charterhouse School.
We welcome new volunteers to document sheets. Please have a go and send feedback if you have any problems.
Chenopodium ficifolium
Documented on September 1st by nacs12.
Welcome to new members
- foeromeo
- alastairdunning
- helenwindyhills
- mandymac
- jaksi
- octodonta
My sheets
If you are already a member please log in.
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 sheets |
|---|---|
| British and Irish Flowering Plants | (53955 / 392 / 54373) |
| collection | complete/available/total sheets |
|---|---|
| University of Birmingham | (32195 / 1267 / 33477) |
| Bolton Museum | (3561 / 4 / 3565) |
| (other completed sets) | 27967 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Tullie House Museum | (38) |
| Shrewsbury School | (2585) |
| Oxford University | (382) |
| National Museums Liverpool | (569) |
| National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin | (231) |
| Manchester Museum | (6674) |
| Launceston Museum | (797) |
| Gloucester City Museum | (58) |
| Charterhouse School Herbarium | (272) |
| Cambridge University | (876) |
| Aberystwyth University Herbarium | (15485) |
