British and Irish Herbarium

The herbarium contains around 98% of the British and Irish native flora and covers a time-span of over two hundred years. It includes the collections from J. H. Balfour (1808-1884) and G. C. Druce (1850-1932). This collection is particularly rich in the local flora, containing the collections of prominent northwest botanists such as J. A. Wheldon (1862-1924), Fred Holder, Vera Gordon (1916-2003) and Eric Greenwood (1938 -2022).