What Is An Herbarium?

Our mission is to document the occurance of plants in Wisconsin, focusing on Central Wisconsin (Marathon, Portage, and Wood Counties). UWSP students come from throughout the state and have the unique opportunity to participate in our statewide plant inventory. Other research emphases are aquatic vascular plants, grasses, bryophytes, and lichens.

Meet the curators

Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium

Starting with one cabinet of about 1,000 plant specimens in 1969, Dr. Robert Freckmann (and Dr. Frank W. Bowers) built this herbarium into the third largest in Wisconsin, with over 200,000 specimens. The website at http://wisflora.herbarium.wisc.edu/ . generates over 20,000,000 hits per year.