I found many treasures during my travels last week.
This one has inspired me very much.
It was an herbarium on display in the Island in the Sky, Canyonlands Utah visitor’s center.
I inquired about it to a young ranger.
“Karen did it.” was his reply “She’s a legend.”
Is Karen here? I asked. “She died in the ’80’s.” he said.
Karen has been gone for almost forty years and I am enjoying her legacy.
It was beautifully done. The flower cards had color-coded margins.
Each plant specimen had a whole plant photo and plant description with it.
I can do this! Maybe this will be my next project for a North Carolina park.
This is good stuff. This is how people learn to identify plants.
Thank you Karen. You are a legend.
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floweralley 
The flowers cards really are beautiful, what a thoughtful and loving way to catalog!
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As a former teacher, I know how important it is to have a photo and the actual plant. This was beautifully done and was holding up really well for its 40 years. I wish I knew how Karen did this. Thanks for appreciating this post.
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Very cool. I think herbariums were common in the Victorian age through the 1920s when they fell out of favor because the rise of personal photography. A great learning tool.
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I went back to my high school to teach biology in 1984. The backroom to the lab had drawers full of hundreds of plants on paper. We eventually had to toss them. I hated to do it.
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Oh, I can imagine!
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I worked briefly on a herbarium at a local arboretum. The plant material was not covered and broken pieces were put into little envelopes to be used for DNA testing in the future.
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Great idea.
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