While digitizing the family Apocynaceae for the Plants on Edge/Endless Forms Project, I made a surprising discovery. Pressed and dried in the corolla of a Stemmadenia litoralis... Read more about Specimen Spotlight - A surprise within a Stemmadenia litoralis

Dr. Donald Pfister, Asa Gray Research Professor of Systematic Botany and Emeritus Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium, and Dr. Michael Bradshaw, Harvard University Herbaria Research Fellow, were recently awarded a $1 million grant ... Read more about Pfister and Bradshaw receive NSF grant

This public seminar, organized by Prof. Donald Pfister, former director of the Harvard Herbaria and curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium, and Dr. Veronica Vargas, a Research Affiliate at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, addresses the potential for developing new therapeutics from Latin America's biota.... Read more about "Global Health, Biodiversity, and Therapeutics" Seminar June 9, 2023

Anthony Brach is a Senior Curatorial Technician for the vascular collections. From 1993 until joining the HUH staff in 2012... Read more about Staff Spotlight - Anthony Brach