Dr. Jessica Budke @MossPlants is the @UTKnoxville Herbarium Director. @UTKHerbarium is a plant natural history #collection of over 640,000 #specimens from around the world. Our #flattenedflora is the largest collection from the southern Appalachians & the @GSMNP. #iamabotanist

Our most popular #SciComm @UTKHerbarium is #HerbMadness. Plant genera go head to head in a weekly vote with past winners including Quercus-2018, Azolla-2019, & Rhododendron-2020. Want your favorite plants to win? Nominate them this spring for #HerbMadness2021. #MarchMadness #NCAA

We encourage people to stop by @UTKHerbarium in-person using our colorful and pun-y #sandwichboard that sits on the #sidewalk outside. Last year it helped bring in 85 new student visitors who had never visited a #herbarium before! #HerbSign #sidewalksign #educationmatters

Want to come to the @UTKHerbarium to use our #specimens in your next #research project? Apply for our Visiting Researcher Fellowship sponsored by the L.R. Hesler Fund @UTK_EEB. https://herbarium.utk.edu/HeslerVisitingResearcherAward.pdf #SciFunding

We share info about TN #botany with our #FamilyOfTheWeek #SciComm. We highlight key features used to tell them apart & fun #botany facts! Check out https://herbarium.utk.edu/  for botanist-verified, color images of many TN vascular plants.

Want to learn more about us? @UTKHerbarium will be featured in The Vasculum, the @socherbcurators newsletter, in Aug 2020. Join the society to support #herbaria around the world! http://www.herbariumcurators.org/newsletter  #naturalhistory #PlantAppreciation #Botany2020 #BSASciComm