Many of the earliest Canadian plant collectors contributed to the 海角社区 herbarium, making it a unique historical record and providing a window into our botanical past.听Image of a cotton plant grown circa 1820, collection location unknown.
海角社区 staff and students alike have been cataloguing natural history at the herbarium for over a century and a half, preserving vouchers essential to understanding both past and present patterns of听plant biodiversity. There are currently about 140,000 sheets in the collection; specimens from Quebec, Ontario, and the circumpolar Arctic, including Greenland and Siberia, form the core of the collection. About 20,000 specimens have been digitized, and this dataset can be freely downloaded.