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Botany at a Glance

(Plants and fungi)

Established: 1866

Collection Strengths: 400,000 specimens

Current Research Strengths: Flora of the Great Plains

Curator: Craig Freeman
785.864.3453

Curator: Mark Mort
785.864.5706

Collection Manager: Caleb Morse
785.864.4493

The KU Botany vascular plant and lichen collections may be browsed online via our Specify 6 web portals or via GBIF.

Biodiversity Institute Research Divisions

• Archaeology
• ​Biodiversity Modeling
• Botany
• Entomology
• Herpetology
• Ichthyology
• Informatics
• Invertebrate Paleontology
• Invertebrate Zoology
• Mammalogy
• Ornithology
• Paleobotany
• Vertebrate Paleontology