filter_framesUniversity of Michigan-Dearborn Environmental Study Area Herbarium

This herbarium was created by University of Michigan-Dearborn students for the purpose of recording and preserving the species located in the Environmental Study Area located behind the campus’s main grounds, and was digitized to allow easy access to the herbarium’s records. The Environmental Study Area is a 120-acre patch of natural land that is used by the school to study ecosystems, encounter nature, and conduct biological research.

Beginning in the 1970s, students in a Field Biology course cataloged many species in the Environmental Study Area to create a record of what species were found there. Over 200 different species were cataloged then, with several having more than one entry. This database showcases digital images of the plant specimen located in the herbarium at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. It is still being updated to ensure it contains the most accurate representation of the species located at the Environmental Study Area today. Having a collection of specimens from the period of around the 1970s and today allows us to compare the two time periods and study the changes that occurred.

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These materials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. This means you are free to share and adapt the digital objects for any non-commercial purpose, so long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. The license does not in any way limit your rights under copyright law, such as fair use. Please read the license before using this work and be sure to attribute individual items appropriately. When reusing and attributing items in the collection, please note the source as University of Michigan Library Digital Collections, courtesy of Dearborn Environmental Interpretive Center. © 2024 Regents of the University of Michigan.