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Emporia State University Herbarium |
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ESU Herbarium |
Plants |
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The Emporia State Herbarium was established around 1930 by a teacher
who started preserving and cataloging local plants as a reference for
identifying them for students and the general public. Today the
herbarium houses over 43,000 cataloged plant specimens in the research
collection. These plants are a permanent record of regional flora,
especially for the remaining tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of
Kansas. Our mission is to document this biodiversity and to maintain
the tradition of providing knowledgeable identification of plant specimens
for students, scientists, and the general public. For more information about our collection, contact Dr. Tom Eddy at 620-341-5617 or eddytom@emporia.edu. |
(Photo credit: butterfly weed - Greg Sievert.)
Provide comments to Bill Jensen at wjensen1@emporia.edu.
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Page Updated: August 27, 2004