Louisiana State University, Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium (LSU-Vascular Plants)

Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University, Vascular Plant Collection: ca. 159,000 specimens, particularly from Louisiana and the Southeast, but also throughout North America and worldwide through exchange and collections. Families well-represented include Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Cyperaceae and Poaceae worldwide. Significant collections by Fr. G. Arsène, C. A. Brown, A. Featherman, N. F. Peterson, S.C. Tucker, L. E. Urbatsch, I. Vélez, and E. C. Wurzlow.

Contacts: Jennifer S. Kluse, Collections Manager (jkluse@lsu.edu)

Related link: http://www.herbarium.lsu.edu/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: fe609977-5b39-49c5-905a-32ca83233244

DwC-Archive Access Point: https://sernecportal.org/portal/content/dwca/LSU-VascularPlants_DwC-A.zip

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

• 307,414 specimen records
• 22,794 (7%) georeferenced
• 293,554 (95%) with images (566,036 total images)
• 251,248 (82%) identified to species
• 411 families
• 4,021 genera
• 19,293 species
• 21,841 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)