University of Florida Herbarium, Florida Museum of Natural History
Florida Museum of Natural History
379 Dickinson Hall, P.O. Box 110575
Gainesville, Florida 32611-0575
United States
Kent Perkins
Tel: [1] 352/ 273-1990
Email: kperkins@flmnh.ufl.edu
The University of Florida Herbarium is a unit of the Department of Natural History of the Florida Museum of Natural History. The herbarium is affiliated with the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Department of Biology and the Department of Plant Pathology. The FLAS acronym is the standard international abbreviation for the University of Florida Herbarium. It is derived from the herbarium's early association with the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station.
Our mission focuses in plant collections acquisition and care, research based on the collections, education and public service.
The herbarium and the associated paleobotanical collection have combined holdings of approximately 500,000 specimens.