Phenological Scoring of Herbarium Specimens
A key goal of the California Phenology Network was to develop data standards and tools to enable capture, storage, and dissemination of phenological data from herbarium specimens. This page documents the developed phenological schema and serves as a repository for scoring protocols and cheatsheets as they are developed.
  • ​Terms and definitions
  • Scoring tools
  • Protocols
  • Taxon-specific cheatsheets
  • Downloading phenological data

Data standards
The general phenological scoring schema is shown below. Each term is linked to a corresponding term in the Plant Phenology Ontology (see last column). The schema can be downloaded by clicking the button below.

Scoring specimens

Using the Phenological Scoring Tools in CCH2
This guide describes the general use of three tools in CCH2 that enable scoring of phenological traits from specimen images and text.

Family protocols/cheatsheets

Genus and species protocols/cheatsheets

Output