Herbarium
Plant Library
at White Feather Farm
White Feather Farm presents a unique opportunity for plant preservation; 60 plus acres of woods and wetlands, a pond, two merging tributaries and newly established, organic farm fields. Land with plenty of biodiversity full of native, naturalized, and invasive species. Thanks to our founder, Sarah Johnson, we are offered this beautiful terrain to learn and explore and have a direct lens on the beauty and complexity of nature.
Plants observed, collected and preserved at White Feather Farm
Listed in alphabetical order by common name
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A
allegheny monkey flower
alsike clover
american bur-reed
american black elderberry
arrow-leaved tear thumb
azure bluet
B
bird’s foot trefoil
bittersweet nightshade
black knapweed
bladder sedge
blue-eyed grass
blunt broom sedge
bladder-pod lobelia
blunt spike rush
boneset throughwort
bristly aster
broad leaf arrow head
brown knapweed
B
dark green bulrush
deer tongue
deptford pink
dotted smartweed
C
calico American aster
common arrowhead/water plantain
common bull thistle
common buttonbush
common cattail
common dewberry
common milkweed
common quick weed
common wood sedge
cut-grass
cypress
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D
dark green bulrush
deer tongue
deptford pink
dotted smartweed
F
field dodder
field horsetail
field mint
field pennycress
fox glove beard tongue
fox sedge
fringed loosestrife
fringed sedge
frost aster
G
giant chickweed
grass-leaved goldenrod
H
halberd-leaved smartweed
heal all
heart-leaved aster
hop clover
hop sedge
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L
lance-leaf american-aster
lakeside sedge
M
meadow sweet
mountain mint
N
northern blue iris
O
oval sedge
P
pasture rose
path rush
poke weed
pointed broom sedge
purple loosestrife
purple stem aster
purple verbena
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R
rattlesnake manna grass
red-top bent grass
robin’s plantain
rough fleabanes
S
sallow sedge
sensitive fern
slender false foxglove
slender vetch
smaller forget-me-not
spotted St. John’s wort
starwort
steeplebush
stiff three-petaled bed straw
squarrose sedge
swamp smart weed
swamp milk weed
sweet flag
sweet pepper bush
T
tall meadow rue
tear thumb
three-petaled bedstraw
three-way sedge
timothy grass
towering rock cress
tufted sedge
V
vetch
virginia marsh st. john’s wort
W
white avens
white meadowsweet
white wood aster
wild bee-balm
wrinkle leaf goldenrod
wood lily
Y
yellow water lily
2023 Collection
2022 Collection
2021 Collection
Creation for Future Generations.
Because of our changing climate, the ecological, geographical and evolutionary shifts that will continue to occur over time will result in either land resilience or depletion, our human footprint is encroaching on natural and untouched spaces. With all of this happening, some plant species may not make it, it is important that we have a record of as many species as we can!
The plants collected have been identified in the field, noting their habitat and general morphology. They are pressed, frozen, preserved on acid free herbarium sheets using PH neutral adhesive, stitched with cotton thread when needed, numbered, labeled, photographed and safely stored.
The plants in a region give us such valuable information and tell us a story.
A preserved plant is a record that links it to a specific time and place offering precious information.
Genetic information can be obtained from the DNA of pollen and seeds
A preserved plant holds both scientific and historical information and becomes a gift for future generations.
Meet Kris Garnier
Kris is the Head Gardener and Land Steward at White Feather Farm as well as a local herbarium artist & educator living just outside Woodstock , NY. She has been a a plant fanatic for the 25 plus years since she moved to the Hudson Valley. Her goal is to collect a record of as many plants as possible in our local landscape. She has collected over 180 plants just from her 5 acre property in Woodstock alone! Kris was awarded a grant through the Susanna Meyer Creative Arts Award in 2020 that culminated in a 2021 plant collection exhibit at The Lamb Center in Saugerties, NY. She is excited to offer hands on herbarium workshops at with White Feather Farm this summer, workshop dates coming soon!
Meet Matt Sorrano
Matt holds a Master's in Natural Science from New York State University of Plattsburgh. He has been field collecting wild plants at White Feather Farm since 2023, is currently managing our orchard, and works reverently in our many growing fields.