Botanical Liaisons is an ethnobotanical consulting firm providing botanical standards to industry, academicians and government agencies; international botanical sourcing; sustainable development of botanical ingredients; products offering intellectual property rights; guidance on the development and implementation of botanical quality assurance programs; and botanical research that results in unique products. The firm collaborates with scientists on all continents. Botanical Liaisons’ founder, Trish Flaster, developed the first virtual herbarium for economic plants and continues to implement quality programs for customers that are unique systems to qualify plant identity, establish sustainability and transparency of ingredients and to introduce new plants that offer intellectual property for the client.