PH (the botanical herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences) is the oldest institutional herbarium in the United States. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850. The diatom herbarium (ANSP) is managed separately.

The Agnes Marion Ayre Herbarium (NFLD) is located in St. John's, NL, Canada and is part of the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Agnes Marion Ayre (1890-1940) of St. John's, though an amateur botanist, made remarkable contributions to documenting the flora of the province through her field notes, preserved specimens and botanical illustrations. She is particularly well known for her botanical drawings, which were meticulous. Unfortunately, much of her work was lost following her death; however, what remains is housed at NFLD and in the Archives and Special Collections of the Queen Elizabeth II Library. The herbarium houses 40,000 vascular plant specimens collected mostly in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and representing over 3,300 species from more than 1,000 genera within 176 families of angiosperms, 26 of pteridophytes and six of gymnosperms. 60,000 bryophyte specimens mainly from the province, but also from other Holarctic regions of the world. And 35,000 marine algae specimens of eastern Canada and the Arctic. The lichen collection is currently being digitized and represents collections both within and outside of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The CPH Lichenarium is a collection of regional lichenized fungi from the Northern California Coastal Range and Klamath Mountains bioregion numbering over 700 specimens. These specimens have been curated by Dr. Steve Sillett, the Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology, along with his graduate students. This collection includes a full set of vouchers from a published study in The Bryologist on the epiphytic communities of Sequoia sempervirens completed by Dr. Sillett and Cameron B. Williams. Specimens are available for study by outside researchers and specimen loans. Digitization of the collection has begun as of 2021 with the goal of digitizing the collection entirely over the coming years.

The herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) holds around 5000 specimens of lichen. This is just a small portion of the largest collection of plants in the western U.S. and the sixth largest in the country. Together with the Herbarium of the University of California at Berkeley (UC) the San Francisco Bay area is regarded as a National Resource Center for systematic botany. These two major collections have an informal agreement to avoid duplication, thus providing botanists with a rich and varied resource for research.

Founded in 1945 by Dr. Carl Sharsmith, the herbarium at San Jose State University houses a collection of more than 18,500 dried plant specimens. Many specimens were collected over Dr. Sharsmith's long career as a university professor and natural history ranger at Yosemite National Park. The collection is actively curated with approximately 500 new specimens being added every year.

El Herbario Nacional del Ecuador (QCNE) del Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), conserva el Fungario gubernamental más representativo del país con cerca de 7.000 ejemplares de macrohongos y líquenes (hongos liquenizados), provenientes de las cuatro regiones naturales del Ecuador, incluye 12 holotipos y paratipos. El Fungario del QCNE constituye una enorme reserva de información que se procura esté accesible a la comunidad científica y público en general a través de la Plataforma Symbiota del INABIO.

La colección de Hongos y Briófitas del Herbario CORD contiene alrededor de 50.000 ejemplares de los siguientes grupos de organismos. ALGAS (Chloroplastida, Rhodophyceae, Stramenopiles, Xanthophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Diatomea, Euglenozoa), HONGOS (Fungi), HEPATICAS (Embryophyta), ANTOCEROS (Embryophyta), MUSGOS (Embryophyta), MIXOMICETES (Myxogastria,Ceratomyxa) y OOMICETES (Peronosporomycetes). Algunas de estas colecciones datan del siglo XIX, esta colección histórica tiene gran cantidad de ejemplares (ca. 35000). Esto convierte a esta colección en una de las mayores de su tipo en el País en cuanto a cantidad de ejemplares.

CUP's Lichen Herbarium contains historical and recent, local and worldwide lichens, totaling about 10,000 specimens.

The William Louis & Chicita F. Culberson Lichen Herbarium consists of about 107,000 lichen specimens including over 850 lichen types. It is focused mainly on collections of Cladoniaceae and Parmeliaceae, although collections of crustose lichens are increasing due to the activities of members of the Lutzoni lab. About 12,000 specimens of the Harmand's collection are exsiccates of Arnold, Desmazieres, Faurie, Flagey, Fries E., Fries Th., Funck, Harmand, Hepp, Leighton, Lojka, Malbranche, Mereschkowsky, Nylander, Olivier, Roumeguere, Schaerer, Zahlbruckner, and Zwackh.

The Farlow Herbarium houses nearly 1,400,000 specimens of lichenized and non-lichenized fungi, bryophytes, and algae. The collections are world-wide in scope; particular strengths are in bound, indexed exsiccatae, bryophytes and fungi from Asia, entomogenous fungi, Antarctic lichens, and special "authors" herbaria which contain many type specimens.

Additional electronic access to F database is available at: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/Query.php. Specialty: Phanerogams worldwide with emphasis on tropical and North America, especially rich in collections from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru; pteridophytes worldwide with emphasis on Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru; bryophytes worldwide; mosses of North America, Central America, Andean South America, and Australasia; hepatics of north temperate, South America, and south temperate; all groups of fungi, especially basidiomycetes with emphasis on New World and lichenized fungi of north temperate and Central America; algae worldwide, especially Cyanobacteria; economic botany.

Small collection of ~50 specimens from Arkansas, Oregon, and California.

The Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Herbarium (USCG), created in 1923 by the Guatemalan botanist Ulises Rojas, is the oldest in the country. The USCG Herbarium contains more than 47,000 specimens from Guatemala, grouped in 273 families, 1,959 genera and 6,842 species of hepatics, mosses, ferns, vascular plants, lichens and macrofungi. / El Herbario Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USCG), instaurado por el botánico guatemalteco Ulises Rojas en 1923, es el más antiguo del país. La colección del Herbario USCG cuenta actualmente con más de 47,000 ejemplares que corresponden a 273 familias, 1,959 géneros y 6,842 especies de hepáticas, musgos, helechos, plantas con semillas, líquenes y macrohongos.

El Herbario Nacional Colombiano (COL), del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia fue fundado en 1936 por el Padre Enrique Pérez Arbeláez y posee cerca de 600.000 ejemplares, de los cuales cerca del el 10 % se encuentra en este recurso. La organización de los diferentes grupos taxonómicos presentes en el Herbario COL siguen a un autor con algunas modificaciones. En Gimnospermas y Angiospermas se sigue a Engler (1936). En Pteridófitas se sigue a Engler (1954). Briófitas (Hepáticas y Musgos) y Hongos Liquenizados se encuentran organizados en orden alfabético de géneros y especies; sin embargo, en la nomenclatura se sigue en Hepáticas a Yano & Gradstein (1997) y para los Musgos a Buck & Vitt (1986), en Hongos Liquenizados a Hanssen & Jahns (1974). En Hongos se sigue a Hawksworth et al. (1984). En la Carpoteca y la Palinoteca las familias, géneros y especies se encuentran organizadas alfabéticamente. Debido a esta organización, en algunos casos la taxonomía de este recurso no está actualizada a APG III. El número de catálogo puede tener duplicados. Para este caso se agrega una vocal al final, que no existe físicamente en el número sellado en el ejemplar, para poder diferenciar los números. El otro número de catálogo (otherCatalogNumbers) corresponde al código de barras que se le asigna a un ejemplar cuando es fotografiado. Adicionalmente, el Herbario Nacional Colombiano cuenta con un conjunto de Colecciones Especiales, organizadas independientemente, constituidas por: las Colecciones Históricas correspondientes a la Colección José Celestino Mutis (proveniente de la Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reyno de Granada, llevada a cabo entre 1783 y 1816) con 598 ejemplares, la Colección José Jerónimo Triana (1851-1857, con 5.000 ejemplares), a partir de la que cual se inicio al Herbario Nacional Colombiano y una pequeña colección del fundador del Herbario (Colección Enrique Pérez Arbeláez, realizada en Europa entre 1919 y 1922, con 175 ejemplares)

Taxonomic Coverage: Fungi worldwide, in particular corticolous, crustose lichens from the Holarctic.
Geography: Worldwide, Hesse, Europe, Mediterranean region, Atlantic islands, Asia, North America, southern South America, Antarctica.

Notes: Updated Dec 2017 (incorporated herbaria). This institute is part of a decentralized institution (Senckenberg Research Institutes and Natural History Museums) which also comprises botanical research departments and herbaria in Görlitz (GLM) and Weimar (IQW). For a survey of collections, see H. J. Conert (ed.), Index Collectorum Herbarii Senckenbergiani.- Courier Forschungsinst. Senckenberg 217: 1-201.

Taxonomic Coverage: Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi
Geography: Worldwide, Saxony, Brandenburg, Germany, Poland, Silesia, Czech Republic, Russia, Caucasus, East Asia, Africa.

Notes: Notes: This institute is part of a decentralized institution (Senckenberg Research Institutes and Natural History Museums) which also comprises botanical research departments and herbaria in Frankfurt (FR) and Weimar (IQW). For a survey of collections, see H. J. Conert (ed.), Index Collectorum Herbarii Senckenbergiani.- Courier Forschungsinst. Senckenberg 217: 1-201.

The Ray J. Davis Herbarium (IDS) is part of the Idaho Museum of Natural History (IMNH) at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho. The herbarium maintains collections of vascular plants (IDS), lichens (IDS-L), bryophytes (IDS-B) and macrofungi.

The herbarium contains 250,000 plant and 58,000 fungal specimens.
Specialty: Vascular plants and fungi of Illinois, southeastern and midwestern U.S., Great Smoky Mountains National Park; limited neotropical; recent Kyrgyzstan; Rosaceae subfamily Maloideae.
Date Founded: 1858.

A database of Lichens from India.

The Tom S. and Miwako K. Cooperrider Herbarium was founded in 1921, and currently holds approximately 93,000 accessions of vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens. The strength of the collection is primarily in the flora of Ohio (especially the northeastern portion of the state), but other regions of North America are represented. Significant collections include those of T. S. Cooperrider and his students, and late 19th and early 20th century collections of Almon Rood and his contemporaries.

Lichen specimens deposited in the Ibaraki Nature Museum

The lichen herbarium of Kerry Knudsen hosted at Prague National Museum (PRM)includes many specimens collected in Europe and North America, particularly from New Mexico. The herbarium focuses particularly on species in the Acarosporacae.

The Claude Garton Herbarium is located on the third floor (CB3027) of the Centennial Building at Lakehead University. It was established in 1967 and given the universal herbarium code of LKHD. We recently celebrated 50 years of its existence, and 150 years of botanical research in our region. The present and future focus is to keep it as a regional herbarium of Northwestern Ontario. However, through exchanges in the past, the herbarium has specimens from other regions of Canada and many other parts of the world. Currently the accessioned specimens number over 110,000 and of these there is an almost complete collection of the vascular plants of the Thunder Bay area, of which there are about 1000 species. These include the conifers, flowering plants, ferns, clubmosses and horsetails. The herbarium also contains a good representation of the local non-vascular plants: approximately 300 species of mosses; about 100 species of liverworts and approximately 200 species of lichens (which represent only about half of the local species). Substantial exchanges in the past with Finland, in particular, have added more boreal specimens of lichens and bryophytes. The vascular plant specimens of the districts of Thunder Bay, Rainy River, Kenora, Sudbury, Algoma and Cochrane that are stored in the herbarium are being entered into our computer database. All NW Ontario records are being checked, barcoded and digitally photographed for posting on Lakehead University Library Archival website. These records will be gradually linked to our herbarium's Collections tab and made available world-wide. In the past, through a partnership program with Algoma University College, records from our herbarium (to about 2005) could be accessed through the Northern Ontario Plant Database from Sault Ste. Marie. This older partial database may still be available. The Claude Garton Herbarium is open to the public (call to confirm hours of operation). Kristi Dysievick is the present curator, having replaced Emma Lehmberg (2016-2018) and previously Erika North, who resigned from a long engagement with the herbarium in 2016. Loans of specimens are usually reserved for institutions that are carrying out research such as plant distributions and taxonomic revisions. The herbarium is currently limiting its intake of physical specimen and strongly encourages submissions of new observations on the iNaturalist platform.

The Dr. Laurie L. Consaul Herbarium (UWO) comprises over 42,000 specimens of vascular plants, with best representation of the plants of southwestern Ontario, and sparse coverage of the remainder of Canada, the United States and other parts of the world. In addition there are several thousand specimens of Crataegus (Rosaceae) from all parts of North America including Mexico as well as small bryophyte, fungi and lichen collections.

Welcome to the Lichen Herbarium of the Patuxent Research Refuge

Established in 1936 by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Patuxent Research Refuge is the nation's only national wildlife refuge established to support wildlife research. It is located between Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD. At the time of the Refuge's establishment in 1936, botanist Neil Hotchkiss and other scientists surveyed the flora on the 2,650 acres which made up the Refuge. Lists of plants found on the Refuge were published in 1940 and 1947.

Lichen specimens of Saitama Museum of Natural History

This database contains label information for about 102,000 specimens (anno 2013) of lichens preserved in the herbarium of the Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, acronym B. It represents about one third of the lichen holdings and contains mainly recent acquisitions, in particular such resulting from own fieldwork. Added are about 13.000 specimens of fungi. It is designed to allow search for specimens for DNA research and to trace specimens renamed after publication.

The Louis-Marie Herbarium contains a high quality collection of plants that is adapted to the needs of researchers in the fields of systematics, biogeography, genetics, and molecular ecology. The herbarium places an emphasis on Canada’s arctic-alpine, subarctic, and boreal species. The herbarium is making its collection available to both researchers and students with the creation of an interactive electronic database HERCUL (Herbier catalogué de l'Université Laval). Currently 31% of the herbarium collection (770 000 specimens) are catalogued in the HERCUL database.

The MSU Herbarium was founded in 1863 with the donation of a large collection of plants from Michigan and the eastern U.S. Today, we remain focused on plant and fungal diversity from Michigan, but the collection is also rich in plants from Mexico and southeast Asia, and lichens from the Caribbean and the subantarctic region. With over half a million specimens, the MSU Herbarium is among the 50 largest herbaria in the United States, whereas the lichen collection, with 120,000 accessioned collections, is among the 10 largest in North America and, because of its geographical scope, of international importance.

The Morton Arboretum is an internationally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to the planting and conservation of trees. Its 1,700 acres hold more than 222,000 live plants representing nearly 4,300 taxa from around the world.

PTBG houses about 5,500 specimens of bryophytes and 1430 lichens primarily from Hawaiʻi, and the broader tropical Pacific region, which includes the Polynesia-Micronesia biodiversity hotspot. 

PTBG has just joined the global bryophyte and lichen TCN together with BISH for providing public data and images all our collections and would like to request access to the global portals for bryophytes and lichens (separate requests being submitted). 

The Museum's Biological Collections include two and a half million specimens collected over more than two centuries of research. They record the rich diversity, complex biogeography, and change over time in New York's populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, mollusks, crustaceans, insects, vascular plants, fungi, mosses, and other living things. Outstanding 19th century collections include some of the oldest North American plant specimens and thousands of type specimens gathered and described by pioneering naturalists such as mycologist Charles Horton Peck and entomologist Asa Fitch. The Natural History Illustration Collection comprises tens of thousands of drawings, paintings, and sculptures that illuminate the scientific characteristics and innate beauty of New York's living natural world.

The personal lichen herbarium of Jason Hollinger at Waynesville, North Carolina hosts several thousand specimens of which many duplicates are at NY, BRY, ASU, MSC, UBC and other institutions.

The personal lichen herbarium of Javier Etayo in Navarra, Spain hosts several thousand specimens with a particular focus on lichenicolous fungi.

The personal lichen herbarium of Ken Kellman at Aptos, California currently holds ca. 500 specimens, mostly from California.

T. L. Esslinger's private collection.

The Hoover Herbarium houses 85,000+ specimens of vascular plants, algae, lichens, and bryophytes. The geographic focus is San Luis Obispo County, California. The collection also includes many specimens from other areas of California, other states of the US, particularly Arizona, and some from other regions of the world, especially Mexico. Emphasis areas in the collection include Asteraceae, Lupinus, and cultivated Eucalyptus. Major collections include Robert F. Hoover (1946–1969), David J. Keil (1966–present), Rhonda Riggins (1970s–2000), Tracy Call (mostly Apiaceae—late 1940s–1960s), and Robert J. Rodin (1940s–1977). The collection is used extensively in undergraduate teaching and training. Important Collections: Robert F. Hoover (1946–1969), David J. Keil (1966–present), Rhonda Riggins (1970s–2000), Tracy Call (mostly Apiaceae—late 1940s–1960s), and Robert J. Rodin (1940s–1977).

The San Diego Natural History Museum Department of Botany focuses on biodiversity, evolutionary history research, and documentation of the flora in Southern California, Baja California, and adjacent areas. With a collection dating back to the 1870s, the SD Herbarium is invaluable as a scientific resource that documents regional plant populations and has been used for basic natural history research. Botanists with regional colleges, universities, and museums utilize the collections for their own research and for student projects, both by visiting the collection in person and/or through loans. The SD Herbarium houses over 270,000 accessioned specimens, all of which have been databased. Specimens from southern California account for nearly half of our collection and about 20% of our collection is from Baja California. Nearly all San Diego County and Baja California records have been georeferenced (99%). The Botany Department maintains two web sites that serve researchers with searching and mapping pages, checklists, voucher images, data input forms for collectors, and other tools for using our collections. SDPlantAtlas.org serves researchers interested in the plants of California’s San Diego and Imperial Counties. BajaFlora.org serves the needs of researchers interested in the plants of the two states of Baja, Mexico, consolidating the SD collections and the collections of the two primary herbaria in Baja.

This observation profile harbours a collection of all lichen photographs by professional photographers Steven Sharnoff and Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, which was generously made available with support by Dr. Shirley Tucker. Most of these image profiles are now linked as virtual duplicates to their specimen records at the Lichen Herbarium of the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN-CANL) and/or the lichen collection of the University of California, Riverside (in transfer to SBBG; UCR(temp)-In transfer).

For more information on Steve Sharnoff's lichen photography please visit his website on lichens.

The Freeman Herbarium (AUA) contains over 90,000 specimens of vascular and non-vascular plants including, over 80,000 vascular plants, about 1800 bryophytes, over 4000 lichens, and about 3000 specimens of fungi.

The DAV lichen collection was founded in 1968 by Shirley Tucker based on her own collections and exchange material she had acquired. Shirley intended this to form the basis for a California reference collection that currently stands at 850 specimens. Recent lichen floras added are from University of California Reserve units: Stebbins Cold Canyon and Quail Ridge Reserves. Other collections of note: 115 New Zealand lichens that are tardigrade hosts, collected by D.S. Horning and colleagues of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, 156 western North America (W.A. Weber, Exsiccatae), and 55 Jack Major collections from Alaska and British Columbia. The collection was rehoused and stabilized in 2020, and the label data was entered into Symbiota in 2021. 

The lichen collection at UCR was transferred to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in early 2022. These data will eventually be migrated into the SBBG collection. For current holdings at UCR, see the University of California, Riverside Lichens collection.

The herbarium at the University of Cincinnati was founded by Margaret Fulford in 1920s and has grown over the years through the work of prolific collectors and through acquisition of several large and important collections. Today, the herbarium houses around 125,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, fungi, and algae, making it the third largest herbarium in Ohio. In addition to the large collection of regional and North American material, it also contains extensive collections from Europe, South America, the Caribbean Basin, Samoa, and China. Particular strengths of the herbarium are North American Sphagnum, South American and Caribbean Hepatics, North American Cladonia, and Trilliaceae.

Herbarium COLO is the Botany Section of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History on the Boulder campus. The Herbarium is available to anyone with an interest in botany. Users include faculty and students, visiting scholars, private consultants, local naturalists, and botanists from a variety of public and private agencies.

This dataset contains the COLO Lichen collection. North American specimens are transcribed and worldwide transcription is in progress.

No work has been done to georeference this collection. Any coordinates provided are from the collector's label and have not been verified.

Collection strengths: Colorado, Southern Rocky Mountains and Western North American vascular plants and cryptogams, worldwide arctic and alpine, Appalachia, Galapagos Lichens, Australia, New Guinea, Altai, Mexico and the Seville Flowers Bryophyte Collection.

The University of Florida Lichen Collection contains approximately 40,000 lichen specimens. The lichen collection is primarily from Florida but also contains numerous specimens from elsewhere. Important collections include those of William W. Calkins, Dana G. Griffin, III, Severin Rapp, and Roger L. Rosentreter. The FLAS acronym is the standard international abbreviation for the University of Florida Herbarium. It is derived from the herbarium's early association with the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station.

Specialty: Illinois, midwestern U.S., major groups include Cladoniaceae, Parmeliaceae, Peltigeraceae, and Physciaceae, 19th and early 20th century exsiccatae.

Date Founded: 1869.

Housing approximately 520,000 specimens, including 450,000 vascular plant specimens, 65,000 lichens, and smaller holdings of bryophytes and non-lichenized fungi, the R. L. McGregor Herbarium (KANU) is dedicated to the study of the flora of the Great Plains, the grassland biome of central North America. The greater part of vascular plant and lichen specimens deposited in KANU represent the flora of the Great Plains and herbarium staff is involved in taxonomic and floristic studies of the region. Our goal is to expand our understanding of past and current botanical diversity of the Great Plains and to preserve this knowledge for the future.

In October 2021, the lichen herbarium at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (OMA) was transferred for management at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illnois.

The Bessey Herbarium was founded in 1874, making it among the oldest in the Great Plains states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The collection has more than 310,000 specimens, placing it among the largest in the Great Plains. The largest parts of the collection are, in descending order, from Nebraska, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, other parts of North America, and Europe. It contains important collections by such scientifically notable Nebraskans as Charles Bessey, Ernst Bessey, Frederic Clements, Walter Kiener, Per Rydberg, Raymond Pool, Jared G. Smith; by other Nebraskans who later became prominent in other fields, such as Roscoe Pound (Law), Louise Pound (Literature), Willa Cather (Literature), Melvin Gilmore (Ethnobotany), Lawrence Bruner (Entomology) and Henry Baldwin Ward (Parasitology); and by many prominent scientists from outside the state.

The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) is a Department within the North Carolina Botanical Garden of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. NCU curates vascular plants, macroalgae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes, and plant fossils. NCU, located in the center of the UNC-CH campus, welcomes visitors & researchers; contact Curator for information on hours & parking. STATEMENT ON OFFENSIVE CONTENT ON SPECIMEN LABELS: Collection records at NCU may contain language that reflects historical place or taxon names in an original form that is no longer acceptable or appropriate in an inclusive environment. Because NCU preserves data in their original form to retain authenticity and facilitate research, we have chosen to facilitate conversations and are committed to address the problem of racial, derogatory and demeaning language that may be found in our database. Insensitive or offensive language is not condoned by NCU. We recognize the land and sovereignty of Native & Indigenous nations in Chapel Hill, in North Carolina, in North America, and across the world. The North Carolina Botanical Garden and the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation acknowledge that the story told about the history of the land we steward has been incomplete. Before the Morgans and Masons, these lands were home to multiple tribes and the ancestors of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, who persist locally to this day. We recognize that at least one of the adjacent lands we steward, Mason Farm Biological Reserve, was first cleared, cultivated, and worked by Native Americans and later by African enslaved people. We invite you to reflect on our individual and community roles in knowing important and untold stories about the land we each steward.

The A. C. Moore Herbarium is an important part of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina (Columbia Campus). Founded in 1907 by Dr. Andrew Charles Moore, the original collection of dried plant specimens is now part of an ever growing collection. Total holdings are just over 100,000 specimens, making the A. C. Moore Herbarium the largest in the state of South Carolina. Researchers and visitors will find a diverse collection of vascular and nonvascular plant material primarily from the Southeastern United States and more specifically from South Carolina. Now over 100 years old, the A. C. Moore Herbarium continues to be an indispensable resource for botanical knowledge.

Our lichen collection is strongly representative of the southeastern U.S., chiefly Tennessee and the southern Appalachians.

The Valdosta State University Herbarium (VSC) provides a repository for the preservation of voucher specimens that document the flora of the Coastal Plain region of Georgia and specimens from a broader geographical area that might be useful in the study of the flora of this region and that enable specialized research on particular groups of plants carried out by faculty and students in residence at Valdosta State University and by taxonomic specialists at other institutions. VSC also provides specimens for use in teaching, and its staff responds to requests from the general public, natural resource managers, agricultural scientists, and others by providing information about plants and service determinations of unknown plants and, where appropriate, preserving vouchers relating to such.

The Marion Ownbey Herbarium (WS) is a collection of nearly 400,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens.  The herbarium includes plants from around the world, with an emphasis on species from the Inland Pacific Northwest, Northern Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, and California.

The West Virginia University Herbarium, the largest such facility in the state, contains about 185,000 mounted and cataloged vascular plant specimens and approximately 26,000 bryophyte and lichen specimens. The collection was started in 1889 and has steadily increased since then. It is designated a National Resource Collection and contains the best collection in the world of West Virginia and Central Appalachian vascular plants. In addition there are over 25,000 color photographic slides that comprise the Earl L. Core Botanical Slide Collection and over 2,000 seed collections in the Elizabeth A. Bartholomew Seed Collection.

Personal research data managed directly within data portal and linked to one user profile. This data node allows researchers to enter, manage, and print labels for their field data before specimens are deposited within a public collection. The records are considered 'observations' until the specimens are formally accessioned with a physical specimen made available to researchers within a public institution. Contact the portal administrator to request permission to manage research observations within this dataset.