Ada Hayden Herbarium
From Rofflehaus
Sample mounted specimen: Prunus virginiana collected in Story County by George Washington Carver in 1894 or 1895
The Ada Hayden Herbarium is a herbarium named after Ada Hayden whom created the initial 30,000 specimen collection which now numbers over 640,000 samples (as of October 2005) of vascular plants, bryophytes, fungi, and lichens.
The herbarium ranks (by size) in the top 12 US university herbariums and in the top 20 US herbariums (which includes botanical gardens and museums).
The grasses in the collected was started by Louis Pammel and continued by Richard Pohl and Lynn Clark.

