Or you can even help develop an herbarium for your school or county. Plant specimens will rot unless they are preserved properly. This must be done well if plants are to be identified, stored, displayed or used for research . As you make your collection and identify the plants in it, you will learn about the different kinds of plants that grow around you. You might like to start with a collection of the plants that grow around your home.
Botanists make collections for the same reason.
They use them to learn about the different kinds of plants in the world. They put their collections in herbaria so that other botanists can use them as well. Two such herbaria are the Intermountain Herbarium in Logan, Utah, USA and the National Herbarium of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. To find other herbarium websites click here . A well made plant collection requires good specimens and good field notes.