Actual sites and websites: Happy herbarium records
If you are a botanist past the undergrad level, chances are that you have used herbarium data. Pretty much every botanical experiment that relies on wild populations starts with searching some database for GPS locations. Time is precious and we are all busy people. We don’t have the luxury of being a Banks or a Brown, strolling the landscape and sampling what we find interesting. These days the limited scientific funding available has made it imperative that we get out there,