Consortium of Indiana Herbaria

The Consortium of Indiana Herbaria, founded in 2014, is comprised of herbaria and affiliated staff located in Indiana and select herbaria from outside the state that house significant numbers of collections from Indiana.

Participating herbaria include:

• Friesner Herbarium of Butler University, Indianapolis (BUT)
• Daniel M. Fisk Herbarium, Hillsdale College (HLSD)
• Indiana University Southeast Herbarium (JEF)
• Greene-Nieuwland Herbarium, South Bend (ND)
• vPlants, a virtual herbarium of plants of the Chicago Region developed by The Morton Arboretum, The Field Museum (FM), and the Chicago Botanic Garden

The following herbarium curators and staff comprise the Indiana Plant Atlas committee:

• Marcia Moore, Butler University, mmoore@butler.edu
• Barbara Hellenthal, The University of Notre Dame, bhellent@nd.edu
• Andrew Hipp, Morton Arboretum, ahipp@mortonarb.org
• Anthony Swinehart, Hillsdale College, aswinehart@hillsdale.edu
• David Winship Taylor, Indiana University Southeast, dwtaylo2@ius.edu

Additional Information

Friesner Herbarium, Butler University

The Friesner Herbarium grew out of the personal collections of Dr. Ray C. Friesner, Professor and Chair of the Botany Department, 1920-1952.

Location

Physical Address:
The Friesner Herbarium is located on the lower level of Gallahue Hall on the Butler University campus

Phone: (317) 940-8302
Fax: (317) 940-9519

Mailing Address:

Friesner Herbarium
Butler University
4600 Sunset Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46208

website: www.butler.edu/herbarium

Hours of Operation

The herbarium is open by appointment.

Collections

The Friesner Herbarium curates ca. 100,000 specimens, about half collected in Indiana.

Area of Taxonomic and Geographic Concentration

The Herbarium focuses on plants of Indiana, currently accessioning specimens that document new significant records or voucher field inventories. Most of our legacy specimens were collected during the 1920s, '30s and '40s when Butler had an active Botany Master’s Degree program focused on floristics and "phytosociology." There was also an active exchange program operating in those years that build our holdings of plants collected outside the state.

Important Collections

Ray Friesner, Charles Deam, John Potzger, Charles Ek, Helene Starcs, Paul Rothrock, Scott McCoy

Services

The Herbarium is open by special arrangement to anyone. Specimens are available on loan to recognized botanical institutions engaged in taxonomic research.

Staff

Herbarium Director and Digital Curator & Technology Specialist:

Marcia E. Moore
Friesner Herbarium (BUT)
4600 Sunset Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46208

Phone: (317) 940-8302
Email: mmoore@butler.edu