Morrill Hall will be open normal hours Saturday, April 26. However, there will be no parking available in the normal spaces outside the museum due to the Husker Games occurring at Memorial Stadium. The east side ADA parking will be available, but guests using those spaces will be required to pay the UNL parking and transit services game day parking fee. Parking will return to normal on Sunday, April 27.

Our Family of Museums:

Science & Culture | Botany

Botany

Research Links

Contacts

Botany Division Phone: 402-472-8366

Visiting Researchers: Please email unsmbotany@unl.edu to arrange a time for your visit

The Charles E. Bessey Herbarium (NEB)

Herbaria are collections of preserved specimens that document the identity of plants. Founded in 1874, the Bessey Herbarium is among the oldest and largest in the Great Plains. The collection has more than 310,000 specimens of flowering plants, fungi, lichens, algae, vascular plants, and non-vascular plants from Nebraska, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, other parts of North America, and Europe.