Conference Logo:
The pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) is Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial flower. It is the only species of pitcher plant in Canada and can be found in bogs and fens all across the country. The CBA/ABC 2025 meeting logo borrows a drawing of the pitcher plant by Agnes Marion Ayre, courtesy of Memorial Libraries' Archives & Special Collections. Agnes Marion Ayre was co-founder of MUN’s herbarium which is named after her. With this logo we honor this amateur botanist for her remarkable contributions to documenting the flora of the province through her book Wildflowers of Newfoundland, field notes, preserved specimens and botanical illustrations. Logo design by Elizabeth Mack.
The Agnes Marion Ayre Herbarium
The Agnes Marion Ayre herbarium houses 40,000 vascular plant specimens collected mostly in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and representing over 3,300 species from more than 1,000 genera within 176 families of angiosperms, 26 of pteridophytes and six of gymnosperms. It also contains 60,000 bryophyte specimens mainly from the province, but also from other Holarctic regions of the world. 35,000 marine algae specimens of eastern Canada and arctic.
Only 15% of our collection is digitized. You can check out our online database here: https://portal.neherbaria.org/portal/collections/search/index.php?db=33
During the CBA-ABC2025 we will have an herbarium open house on Thursday June 12th from 2 to 5 PM and on Saturday June 14th from 10 AM until 4:00 PM. No transportation will be provided, you can get there by taxi or Uber. Address is 297 Mt Scio Road Research facilities, St John’s (just across MUN Botanical Garden, 306 Mount Scio Road, St John’s).
Herbarium curator is Dr. Julissa Roncal. Email: jroncal@mun.ca
Ayre Herbarium
297 Mount Scio Road, in St. John's, Newfoundland
(just across MUN Botanical Garden, 306 Mount Scio Road, St John’s)