Collection Profile for: The OSU Herbarium contains approximately 160,000 vascular plant specimens, about two-thirds of which were collected in Oklahoma and surrounding states. The oldest specimen dates from 1843, and the collection contains 300 type specimens. Since its establishment in 1920, it has been curated by Henry Ira Featherly (1925-1937), Robert Stratton (1937-1949), Umalde Theodore (“Ted”) Waterfall (1949-1971), and Ronald Tyrl (1972-2008). Since 2009, Mark Fishbein has been the herbarium director. The herbarium houses a seed/fruit collection, cryptogamic collection, and botanical library.
Collection Statistics
80,824 specimen records
28,299 (35%) georeferenced
55,875 (69%) with media (58,046 total media) 80,104 (99%) identified to species 206 families 1,373 genera 5,119 species 6,484 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
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Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4f8ecaf5-6ea8-4b39-81d7-123e4a282468
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Oklahoma State University
Geographic Distribution - Texas
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Anderson (46 ) Andrews (108 ) Angelina (32 ) Aransas (113 ) Aransas or Nueces (1 ) Archer (26 ) Armstrong (53 ) Atascosa (16 ) Austin (44 ) Austin? (1 ) Bailey (239 ) Bandera (28 ) Bastrop (102 ) Baylor (37 ) Bee (27 ) Bell (19 ) Bexar (323 ) Bexar or Comal (1 ) Blanco (33 ) Blanco? (2 ) Borden (53 ) Bosque (38 ) Bosque or Hill (1 ) Bowie (87 ) Brazoria (40 ) Brazos (271 ) Brewster (753 ) Brewster-Pecos-Terrell (1 ) Briscoe (135 ) Brooks (118 ) Brown (1458 ) Burleson (11 ) Burnet (134 ) Caldwell (30 ) Calhoun (34 ) Callahan (37 ) Cameron (164 ) Camp (8 ) Carson (5 ) Cass (49 ) Castro (11 ) Chambers (20 ) Cherokee (14 ) Childress (18 ) Clay (25 ) Cochran (4 ) Coke (1 ) Coleman (24 ) Collin (390 ) Collingsworth (20 ) Colorado (23 ) Comal (29 ) Comanche (634 ) Concho (4 ) Cooke (12 ) Coryell (6 ) Cottle (82 ) Crane (22 ) Crockett (30 ) Crockett or Pecos (1 ) Crosby (231 ) Culberson (794 ) Dallam (92 ) Dallas (230 ) Dawson (13 ) Dawson or Lynn (1 ) DeWitt (29 ) Deaf Smith (8 ) Delta (1 ) Denton (148 ) Dickens (170 ) Dimmit (100 ) Dimmit or Maverick (1 ) Donley (14 ) Duval (190 ) Eastland (28 ) Eastland, Callahan, or Taylor (1 ) Ector (200 ) Edwards (25 ) El Paso (132 ) Ellis (29 ) Erath (109 ) Falls (2 ) Fannin (42 ) Fayette (28 ) Fisher (62 ) Floyd (138 ) Foard (4 ) Fort Bend (20 ) Franklin (15 ) Freestone (54 ) Frio (58 ) Gaines (63 ) Galveston (128 ) Garza (1073 ) Gillespie (27 ) Glasscock (9 ) Goliad (4 ) Gonzales (197 ) Gonzales or Guadalupe (1 ) Gonzales? (1 ) Gray (49 ) Grayson (93 ) Gregg (12 ) Grimes (30 ) Guadalupe (24 ) Hale (33 ) Hall (7 ) Hamilton (879 ) Hansford (17 ) Hardeman (28 ) Hardin (58 ) Harris (138 ) Harrison (61 ) Hartley (123 ) Haskell (440 ) Hays (46 ) Hemphill (485 ) Henderson (32 ) Hidalgo (133 ) Hill (24 ) Hockley (14 ) Hood (28 ) Hopkins (4 ) Houston (24 ) Howard (88 ) Hudspeth (510 ) Hudspeth or Culberson (7 ) Hunt (18 ) Hutchinson (11 ) Irion (12 ) Irion? (1 ) Jack (28 ) Jackson (43 ) Jasper (54 ) Jeff Davis (298 ) Jeff Davis or Pecos (1 ) Jeff Davis or Presidio (1 ) Jefferson (53 ) Jim Hogg (183 ) Jim Wells (60 ) Johnson (42 ) Jones (39 ) Karnes (19 ) Kaufman (29 ) Kendall (42 ) Kenedy (354 ) Kenedy? (2 ) Kent (61 ) Kerr (42 ) Kimble (21 ) King (27 ) Kinney (13 ) Kleberg (328 ) Knox (9 ) La Salle (92 ) Lamar (33 ) Lamar or Red River (2 ) Lamb (41 ) Lampasas (20 ) Lavaca (39 ) Lee (9 ) Leon (43 ) Liberty (53 ) Limestone (11 ) Lipscomb (220 ) Live Oak (33 ) Llano (67 ) Loving (3 ) Lubbock (743 ) Lynn (73 ) Madison (2 ) Marion (20 ) Martin (2 ) Mason (16 ) Matagorda (17 ) Maverick (44 ) McCulloch (7 ) McLennan (262 ) McMullen (86 ) Medina (51 ) Menard (33 ) Midland (22 ) Milam (11 ) Mills (28 ) Mitchell (43 ) Montague (52 ) Montgomery (20 ) Moore (8 ) Morris (33 ) Motley (76 ) Nacogdoches (56 ) Nacogdoches or Cherokee (2 ) Navarro (9 ) Newton (33 ) Nolan (32 ) Nueces (93 ) Nueces or San Patricio (1 ) Ochiltree (229 ) Oldham (58 ) Orange (19 ) Palo Pinto (73 ) Panola (11 ) Parker (32 ) Parmer (47 ) Pecos (351 ) Pecos? (1 ) Polk (75 ) Potter (44 ) Presidio (573 ) Presidio or Brewster (1 ) Rains (5 ) Randall (92 ) Reagan (10 ) Reagan? (1 ) Real (33 ) Red River (41 ) Reeves (101 ) Refugio (25 ) Roberts (197 ) Robertson (77 ) Rockwall (17 ) Runnels (9 ) Rusk (6 ) Sabine (17 ) San Augustine (14 ) San Jacinto (12 ) San Patricio (105 ) San Patricio or Aransas (1 ) San Saba (57 ) Schleicher (10 ) Scurry (94 ) Shackelford (26 ) Shelby (9 ) Sherman (18 ) Smith (88 ) Somervell (17 ) Starr (207 ) Stephens (20 ) Sterling (3 ) Stonewall (496 ) Sutton (27 ) Swisher (14 ) Tarrant (208 ) Taylor (170 ) Terrell (84 ) Terrell or Pecos (3 ) Terry (18 ) Throckmorton (5 ) Titus (21 ) Tom Green (70 ) Travis (655 ) Trinity (4 ) Tyler (43 ) Upshur (29 ) Upton (9 ) Uvalde (82 ) Uvalde or Kimble (1 ) Uvalde? (1 ) Val Verde (174 ) Val Verde-Kinney (1 ) Valverde (1 ) Van Zandt (94 ) Victoria (9 ) Victoria or Goliad (1 ) Walker (37 ) Waller (4 ) Ward (63 ) Washington (56 ) Webb (958 ) Webb or Zapata (2 ) Wharton (8 ) Wheeler (120 ) Wichita (53 ) Wilbarger (42 ) Willacy (161 ) Williamson (35 ) Wilson (40 ) Winkler (372 ) Wise (102 ) Wood (59 ) Yoakum (1 ) Young (19 ) Zapata (250 ) Zavala (38 )
