Denver Botanic Gardens

This planning grant will include Botanical Garden partners Colorado State University, the University of Wyoming, and the University of Colorado in the development of an online herbarium of plants of the Rocky Mountain area. This project will engage in the planning to make this shared institutional information available to a wider audience. The digital model created through the grant project will provide a plan for other institutions that wish to combine shared resources and physical specimens into an online tool. When the online herbarium about the Rocky Mountain region is created, users from all arenas—scientist to hobbyist—will report a measured increase in ease of access to desired specimen information.