The online resource for Plants and Fungi offering:
* Description Pages, Features in production / Keys
Currently the site contains data for 72,000 plant specimens from three institutions with rich Chicago Region collections: the Field Museum of Natural History, The Morton Arboretum, and the Chicago Botanic Garden. Species descriptions for plants and the fungus content are now being added.
Specimen data from additional institutions such as the Chicago Academy of Sciences and the Illinois Natural History Survey will be added. We have also been in contact with other herbaria in the Great Lakes area such as the University of Wisconsin and University of Michigan regarding the possibility of adding or linking their Chicago Region specimen data through vPlants. This project is a first step towards building a larger online database for plants and fungi that occur in the Great Lakes area and beyond.
Why focus on the Chicago Region?
Information provided on this page applies to the Chicago Region and may not be relevant or complete for other regions.
Funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Citation: The vPlants Project. vPlants: A Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region. http://www.vplants.org
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The Morton Arboretum, The Field Museum, Chicago Botanic Garden, Additional Partners