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.
Contact: Rebecca Dolan, Director (rdolan@butler.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 26 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 13,846 occurrence
  • 7 (0.05%) georeferenced
  • 10,515 (76%) with images
  • 13,001 (94%) identified to species
  • 33 families
  • 43 genera
  • 1,110 species
  • 1,230 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Family Distribution
Click on the occurrence record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that family
  • Amaranthaceae (162)
  • Apiaceae (26)
  • Araceae (1)
  • Asteraceae (3811)
  • Balsaminaceae (214)
  • Betulaceae (133)
  • Boraginaceae (87)
  • Brassicaceae (145)
  • Butomaceae (1)
  • Cabombaceae (7)
  • Caryophyllaceae (4)
  • Chenopodiaceae (117)
  • Cyperaceae (2410)
  • Fabaceae (258)
  • Haloragaceae (54)
  • Hydrocharitaceae (51)
  • Iridaceae (121)
  • Juncaceae (580)
  • Lamiaceae (379)
  • Lythraceae (103)
  • Menyanthaceae (6)
  • Onagraceae (253)
  • Plantaginaceae (313)
  • Poaceae (1740)
  • Polygonaceae (1138)
  • Pontederiaceae (4)
  • Potamogetonaceae (390)
  • Primulaceae (352)
  • Rhamnaceae (4)
  • Salicaceae (629)
  • Solanaceae (205)
  • Sparganiaceae (1)
  • Typhaceae (147)