The Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
                                        at Florida State University

Florida State University's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium is a museum-quality collection of 200,000 plant specimens. Most of these document the distribution and natural variation of the 2,400 species of flowering plants, ferns, conifers, and cycads found in northern Florida - one of North America's biodiversity hotspots. Each specimen is carefully identified, pressed, dried, and mounted to archival standards, with accompanying data on where and when it was collected. The specimens are a valued resource to local, state, national, and international biologists studying plant systematics, ecology, evolution, biogeography, conservation biology, anatomy, and morphology. New specimens are added to the collection each week. In August 2003, Austin Mast became the new director of the herbarium. Though now retired, Loran Anderson remains active in the herbarium. The current curator is Sarah Braun.
As of August 2003, specimen data and images are being entered into the herbarium's on-line database, you can search the database by following the database links on our menu.

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