Benedictine College Herbarium (HWBA)

The Benedictine College is a regional herbarium with a focus on species from Eastern KS and western MO, with an emphasis on Atchsion County, KS. The collection has approximately 9000 specimens and houses the collection of H. W. Blocker (circa 1950), a monk and biology professor from the abby associated with the College.

Contact: Dr. Travis Almquist (talmquist@benedictine.edu)

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 2890e320-55ec-41a4-85b0-c8397b9afa32

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://ngpherbaria.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Benedictine College

• 649 occurrence
• 234 (36%) georeferenced
• 2 (0.31%) with images
• 607 (94%) identified to species
• 55 families
• 260 genera
• 491 species
• 542 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)