Black Hills State University Herbarium (BHSU-BHSC)

The Herbarium has ca. 45,000 specimens and is one of the two largest herbaria in South Dakota. BHSC features the world’s largest collection of the distinctive vascular flora of the ecologically unique Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. The collection contains vascular plants, algae, bryophytes and lichens. In addition, the collection consists of approximately 4000 specimens of fungi and slime molds, which include nearly all of the South Dakota state records. The extant vascular plant collection includes a limited number of specimens from around the world; including collections by A. Eastwood, P.O. Schallert, L.S. Rose, J.A. Calder, B.C. Tharp, W.H. Duncan, A.E. Radford, J.M. Gillet, C.G. Pringle, O. Degner, P.A. Munz, E.J. Palmer, K. Biswas, and B. Rosengurtt. Other important collections include those of F.L. Bennett (former BHSC Curator) and M.L. Kravig (Orchidologist). BHSC is also home to one of the largest collections of Miocene age plant fossils from the Great Plains of North America, with at least 10,000 fossils housed from throughout the Great Plains. Type collections of several fossil species from J.R. Thomasson and M.L. Gabel are held in the collection. Grasses (Poaceae), hackberries (Celtis, Ulmaceae), sedges (Cyperaceae) and borages (Boraginaceae) are well represented.
Contacts: Grace Kostel, Grace.Kostel@bhsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 7c8e755a-e77e-4866-b6d9-db5cfed49421
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
Black Hills State University Herbarium
1200 University Jonas Hall #159
Spearfish, South Dakota   57799
USA
[1] 605/ 642-6251
Collection Statistics
  • 27,914 specimen records
  • 27,914 (100%) georeferenced
  • 27,847 (100%) with images (27,865 total images)
  • 27,893 (100%) identified to species
  • 120 families
  • 631 genera
  • 1,665 species
  • 2,128 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics