Butler University, Friesner Herbarium

Description

The Friesner Herbarium grew out of the personal collections of Dr. Ray C. Friesner, Professor and Chair of the Botany Department, 1920-1952. 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. We curate ca. 100,000 specimens, about half collected in Indiana. Important collectors include Ray Friesner, Charles Deam, John Potzger, Charles Ek, Helene Starcs, Paul Rothrock, Scott McCoy

Contacts

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Joanna McCaffrey
Telephone: +01-312-933-6736
email: jmccaffrey@flmnh.ufl.edu

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Marcia Moore
Telephone: +01-317-940-8302
email: mmoore@butler.edu

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Joanna McCaffrey
Telephone: +01-312-933-6736
email: jmccaffrey@flmnh.ufl.edu

Butler University, Friesner Herbarium
4600 Sunset Ave.
Indianapolis
46028
IN
US