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Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission Herbarium (ANHC)

The Herbarium of the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission consists primarily of specimens collected in the course of statewide ecological and biological inventory work conducted by the Arkansas Natural Heritage Program. Many of the specimens represent species that are rare in the state or were collected from rare or unusual habitats. The goals of the collection are 1) to provide a reference collection for work performed by Natural Heritage Commission staff and their conservation partners, 2) to house voucher specimens for rare plant records in the database of the Arkansas Natural Heritage Program, and 3) to voucher plants of ecologically sensitive or otherwise significant lands, including those contained within the State's System of Natural Areas. While most specimens are from Arkansas, special care is being made to assemble a collection of plants from surrounding states that are not presently known in Arkansas but are likely to be found there.
Contacts: Brent Baker, brent.baker@arkansas.gov
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 February 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Address:
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission Herbarium
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission
1100 North Street
Little Rock, Arkansas   72201
United States
501-683-4085
Collection Statistics
  • 16,186 specimen records
  • 10,350 (64%) georeferenced
  • 16,103 (99%) with images (16,938 total images)
  • 14,724 (91%) identified to species
  • 190 families
  • 980 genera
  • 2,688 species
  • 3,187 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics