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.
Contacts: Rebecca Dolan, Director, rdolan@butler.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 23324cf3-da44-43f4-8e9f-d17a6aa0c4e0
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 957 specimen records
  • 59 (6%) georeferenced
  • 957 (100%) with images (1,063 total images)
  • 932 (97%) identified to species
  • 86 families
  • 212 genera
  • 426 species
  • 436 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics