The McGill University Herbarium is an important repository of Canada's biodiversity.
Thanks to the efforts of many people over the past 200 years, the herbarium has become the home to over 140,000 pressed plants, with strong arctic, subarctic, and North American collections. Sedges and other grasslike plants are particularly well represented. Many collections date from the mid-nineteenth century and document places that are now very urban and hold particular significance to Canadian environmental history.
The herbarium is also an educational resource for plant identification and specimen vouchering for the McGill community and records the plant diversity of McGill's many nature reserves.
Our collection of library books can be found in the library catalog. Please contact the frieda.beauregard [at] mcgill.ca (curator) if you would like to voucher your specimens or make use of the collections for your research.