[PCA] Fwd: Local herbarium specimens looking for a home (Silver Spring, MD)

[De Angelis, Patricia]

FYI: See message below. Please do not reply to this email but contact the
Park Naturalist listed below.
-Patricia
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Silver Spring, MD Herbarium Looking for a Good Home!


50 years ago, students and staff from Howard University collected plants
from Wheaton Regional Park in Silver Spring, MD and carefully preserved
them according to botanical protocol, as herbarium sheets.  The total
collection now fills three large plastic bins.  The sheets are still in
good condition, and the plants accurately identified.  They include trees
and forbs, woodland flowers and shrubs.  Most seem to be native.

Three years ago, another plant survey was made in the 500 acre park by
Howard University students.  It may be possible to compare the results of
the recent and past survey.

The collection is an invaluable resource for assessing how the plant
population in the park has changed over time due to various influences.  It
also may be used to identify extant species.  The naturalist staff at
Brookside Nature Center would be very happy to see this collection
preserved digitally and used thereafter by those who can appreciate the
stories it has to share.

If interested in viewing the collection and/or acquiring it, please contact
Park Naturalist Geri Drymalski at 301-962 -1486 <(301)%20962-1486>.

Thank you!


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