Welcome to ASTC: the Herbarium of Stephen F. Austin State University (Version 17.10.1)

The Stephen F. Austin State University herbarium (ASTC) with more than 79,000 specimens is the 4th largest collection in Texas. In addition to housing specimens from throughout North America, the collection represents nearly all of the vascular plant species found in the east Texas Pineywoods. The collection's curator is Dr. James Van Kley. The herbarium plays a vital role in teaching and provides crucial plant identification support to our research in vegetation science. Professionals engaged in research may visit the herbarium by appointment. We also entertain loan requests and facilitate specimen exchanges with other herbaria.

• Imagery of our bryophyte collection and our small wetland and aquatic vascular plant collection is online. In the future we hope to add additional plant groups.
• The holotype of Rudbeckia scabrifolia, a rare coneflower found only in certain herbaceous seeps in the east Texas Pineywoods is deposited in the collection.
• This website works best with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Chromium. Some features may not be available with MS IExplorer.

What's New

• 10/03/2018: Maintenence update. Fixed html errors, changed behavior when resizing windows, and modified color scheme.
• 02/19/2014: The aquatic vascular plant collection is on line.
• 10/03/2013: The bryophyte collection at ASTC is now online.
  

    Links

• Browse the Specimens
  (bryophyte & aquatic vascular plant collections)
• Pineywoods Plants Digital Gallery
  
• Pineywoods Ecosystems  
• Trans-Pecos Plants: Plants from far west Texas
• Gulf Coast Plants: Plants from the Texas Coast
• James Van Kley's Website
  
• Stephen F. Austin State University
• SFASU Biology Department
• SFA Gardens &Pineywoods Native Plant Center
• USDA PLANTS Database
• Digital Flora of Texas
• Biota of North America Program (BONAP), N. C. Botanical Garden

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Last updated: 10/02/2018. 2002-2014,