Welcome to the herbarium!

We are the Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University

With more than 370,000 specimens, we home the largest collection of plants and fungi in Louisiana.

This is a word cloud that shows the proportion of specimens per genus in the collections of the LSU herbaria until January 2023. The size of the name of the genera is proportional to the percentage of specimens from such genus until 2023 that are deposited in our collections.

Genera - Proportion of specimens per genus in the LSU herbaria

Acronyms

Our collections are under three different acronyms

370,000+

Specimens

- January 2023

566

Type Specimens

- January 2023

The herbarium crew identifying Magnoliales

Plant ID - The herbarium crew identifying Magnoliales