Butler University, Friesner Herbarium (BUT)

The Friesner Herbarium digital collection project is a multiyear effort to link label information from our Indiana specimens with images in a searchable electronic format. Our goal is to increase access to, awareness of and use by all Indiana citizens of the valuable historical botanical information contained with the Friesner Herbarium.
Director: Marcia Moore, mmoore@butler.edu, 317-940-8302
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f5f94c8a-553a-4428-a459-d554b72a1a2a
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 311 specimen records
  • 82 (26%) georeferenced
  • 311 (100%) with images (314 total images)
  • 287 (92%) identified to species
  • 26 families
  • 62 genera
  • 131 species
  • 138 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Anzia (2)
  • Bryoria (2)
  • Cetraria (3)
  • Flavocetraria (1)
  • Flavoparmelia (3)
  • Hypogymnia (3)
  • Letharia (1)
  • Melanohalea (1)
  • Menegazzia (1)
  • Parmelia (7)
  • Parmelina (1)
  • Parmotrema (11)
  • Platismatia (4)
  • Pseudevernia (4)
  • Punctelia (3)
  • Tuckermannopsis (3)
  • Usnea (23)
  • Usnocetraria (2)
  • Vulpicida (1)
  • Xanthoparmelia (2)