Community science is a powerful tool to engage the public as contributors and as advocates for natural history collections. We developed the Armchair Botany program in 2020 to engage with community scientists for the purpose of digitizing herbarium specimens utilizing remote video-conferencing software, a digital transcription platform, and in-person events. The main focus of our program has been the digitization of specimens collected in Texas, as part of our National Science Foundation funded “American Crossroads: Digitizing the Vascular Flora of the South Central United States”. In 3 years, over 2479 unique users have transcribed  >58,000 Texas-collected herbarium specimen labels through 31 expeditions launched in the online Notes from Nature platform. Since the Armchair Botany program’s inception, herbarium staff have hosted over 120 virtual events, and delivered in-person events out of the herbarium or at community partner events –the Texas Master Naturalist Program being of particular note. Recruiting and engaging plant-enthusiast organizations has proven rewarding and successful in engaging community scientists with specimens to address resource and space limitations in herbaria.