 |
The U.S. National Arboretum Herbarium is a facility for research on the systematics, nomenclature, and history of cultivated plants. Worldwide in scope, it serves as a national repository for voucher material of economically important plants and their wild relatives, including plants used for food, forage, industrial, medicinal and drug purposes, ornamentals, weeds; and forest trees.
The herbarium contains named cultivars, hybrids and other elite materials covering a wide diversity of cultivated plants worldwide – azaleas to zoysia, beets to magnolias, daylilies to economic legumes, and cotton, wheat, alfalfa, carrots, holly, crapemyrtle, turfgrass, African violets and a host of others.
The Herbarium contains approximately 650,000 specimens of which some 120,000 to 130,000 document cultivated plants. A working inventory of cultivars for which Standard Portfolios are being established is included on this web site. The Horticultural Cultivated Standards provide documentation of the diagnostic characteristics of named cultivars.
Clicking on a highlighted/linked name below will open the specimen image
[usually a ~200kb, 1000x1500 pixel jpeg image file].
Click your browser's "back" button
to return to this page.
Horticultural Cultivated Standards Portfolio
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
|
Abies 'Amaral Franco' |
Ilex 'Miss Courtney' |
 |
||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
||||||
|
Research Unit Home Page ||
Mission & Goals ||
History ||
Locations
Scientists & Specialties ||
Postdoctorals & Support Scientists ||
Technical & Support Staff
Recent Accomplishments ||
Publications & Patents ||
New Plant Introductions
Woody Landscape Plants Germplasm Repository ||
National Herbarium
Back to the Arboretum Home Page
Last Updated June 14, 2004 4:28 PM
URL = http://www.usna.usda.gov/Research/Herbarium/HortCultStd.html
