The UF campus has an incredibly diverse collection of native and cultivated plants growing on its over 2,000 acres.
Specimens to document the campus plant life have been preserved in the Herbarium since the 1920s. We are databasing and imaging these legacy specimens and purposefully enriching those with new specimens, images and field photographs.
- Voucher specimen collections: 2246
- Database records: 1417 species, 1530 taxa
- Digital images online: 2728
- Support and collaborators: volunteers, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Florida Museum of Natural History, Walter S. Judd and all the collectors of specimens from UF campus over many decades.
Searching Our Database for UF Campus Flora Specimens
- Campus flora specimen list – a listing linked to label data for all UF Campus flora specimens arranged by family.
- Campus flora specimen data – an output with full label data and image thumbnails for all UF Campus flora specimens arranged by family.
- Customized search directions:
On the Herbarium Collections Catalog search page In Locality Name field enter: Gainesville: University of Florida campus In Output style selection: table – generates a listing lnked to label data.
report – provides full data with an image thumbnail for those specimens with images.In genus, specific epithet, family and/or other fields: Enter other selection criteria, if any.
Locality name search terms for specific tagged campus locations in our database:
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Bartram Carr woods
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Biology Department greenhouse
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Chemical Engineering Building
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Cultural Plaza area
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Dept. of Environmental Horticulture Teaching Conservatory
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Dickinson Hall
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Digital Design Wetland
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Energy Research and Education Park
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Environmental Horticulture Ornamental Plants Trial Garden
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Environmental Horticulture greenhouse
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Ficke Garden
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Fifield Hall
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Harmonic Woods
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: J. Wayne Reitz Union
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Lakeside Residence
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: McCarty Hall
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: McCarty Hall area
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: McCarty woods
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Music Building
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Natural Area Teaching Lab
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Newins-Ziegler Hall
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: O’Connell Center
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: President’s residence (Univ. Ave.)
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Pugh Hall
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Stone Fruit and Citrus Breeding Program
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Student Agricultural Gardens
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Student Agricultural Gardens: Ethnobotany Club section
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: University Arboretum
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: University Gardens
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Wilmot Memorial Gardens
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Yardley Garden
- Gainesville: University of Florida campus: Zoology Department greenhouse
- Gainesville: University of Florida: Lake Wauburg
* We plan to update our locality tagging to match the 23 specific conservation areas designated by UF Facilities Planning & Construction, for specimens within those areas.
Image gallery search for the UF Campus Flora project
Not all UF campus flora specimens in the UF Herbarium Collections Catalog are imaged. To search only for imaged specimens, a custom image gallery search is available on the image search page. Select the “Floristic Inventory of the University of Florida Campus” tab to search or browse only UF campus flora specimens with images.
Additional UF campus flora resources
- Ionta, Gretchen. 2005. Floristic Inventory of Selected Natural Areas on the University of Florida Campus: Final Report. / (selected maps used in preparation of this document)
- Proctor, Niels, ed. 2017 (17 Nov). Where to find it : a plant nerd’s guide to the University of Florida campus. PDF distributed by the author, UF School of Forest and Resources Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. iii, 128 p.
- Trees of the University of Florida (11th revision, Dec 1996) – numerical and alphabetical lists of the numbered trees on campus developed by Daniel Ward and Bobby Ing. The numbers correspond to the numbers on the trees, but, unfortunately, all or most of those numbers were removed by UF Physical Plant Division in recent years. The list may still be used as a list of trees that currently grow or historically grew on campus. Consult the UF Herbarium collection catalog for historic locations.
- UF Conservation Area Land Management (CALM) Plan – this is the University of Florida’s comprehensive plan for management of the 31 conservation areas on the main campus. There are 23 specific area plans with discussion and maps.
- UF Natural Area Teaching Laboratory (NATL) – 60 acres on the southwest corner of UF campus with various natural ecosystems.