The R.L. McGregor Herbarium was establishe d in 1866 when the University of Kansas opened its doors. With nearly 500\ ,000 preserved specimens of flowering plants\, ferns\, lichens\, and fungi \, it is now among the largest collections documenting the floristic diver sity of the central North American grasslands. An overview will be present ed of the collection&rsquo\;s history and holdings\, efforts to make its s pecimen data widely accessible to researchers and the public\, and contrib utions to projects to document the flora of Kansas\, the Great Plains\, an d the North American continent.
\nCraig C. Freeman is Senior Curator in the R.L. McGregor Herbarium and Senior Scientist in the Kansas Biologi cal Survey\, both at the University of Kansas. \; He holds a BA in bio logy from Wartburg College\, and MS and PhD degrees in biology from Kansas State University. \; Craig has more than 45 years of field experience in the Great Plains\, Midwest\, Rocky Mountains\, and Intermountain West\ , and has published extensively in the fields of plant taxonomy and system atics\, floristics\, and prairie conservation. \; He is the co-author of four books: \;Roadside Wildflowers of the Southern Great Plains&nbs p\;(1991)\, \;An Illustrated Guide to Endangered and Threatened Specie s in Kansas \;(1995)\, \;Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds \;(2015) \, and \;Tree\, Shrubs\, and Woody Vines in Kansas \;(2019).
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