Pressed Plant Vouchers for Identification and Art
with Margaret Bloomquist
Wednesday, November 18th, 2026 • 4:00pm EST/1:00pm PST
Pressed and mounted dry plants (voucher specimens) serve as botanical art and identification.
Did you know that vouchers are a verified botanical document of a plant's identification and can tell the story of the place and time the plant was collected? Vouchers are important for small and large growers, harvesters, stewards, and plant based businesses. Keep on file for potential buyers, reposited in your home collection or with an herbarium, or mount as art on your wall!
Materials, methods, examples, and guided presentation from plant pressing through mounting and storying pressed plant vouchers will be covered.
Margaret Gove Bloomquist is a Research Scholar in Dr. Jeanine Davis’ NC Alternative Crops & Organics Program, Department of Horticultural Science, NC State University, since 2012. She is based in western North Carolina and specializes in medicinal herbs, woodland botanicals, organics, and other specialty crop research and extension efforts. A frequent invited speaker on the above. Margaret is a leader of the western NC Medicinal Herb Growers Groups and the Western NC Woodland Stewards, co director for the Appalachian Forest Farmer Coalition and professionally serves the Association for Temperate Agroforestry, the Agroforestry Coalition, and the Lilium Initiative.