Marion County Flora
Friesner Herbarium staff as well as students from Butler
University's Center for Urban Ecology, are completing an inventory
of the flora of Marion County in Indianapolis, Indiana. The
project grew out of inventory work done in 16 natural areas, 10 of
which are Indianapolis city parks. We created a database of
all historical records of plants collected or reported for the
county. To this information we added our recent inventories
and those of several other researchers. This will allow us to
get a historical and contemporary view of the county's
flora. Slightly over 1,000 taxa have been reported for
the county. In our surveyed sites, several of which are
state-dedicated nature preserves, 80% of species, on average, were
native plants.
The photos and information are a compilation of what we have
documented on our inventories around Marion County and the Butler
University campus, thus may not represent everything that could be
growing in Marion County, Indiana. Historical records from the
Friesner Herbarium of Butler University and other authors, are
available in PDF format at: http://www.butler.edu/herbarium/projects/flora/inventory-sites/
Please contact the Herbarium at mmoore@butler.edu if you wish
to use a photograph in our Flora collection for a purpose other
than educational. We are also welcome photo submissions from other
photographers.