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The University of Tennessee Herbarium (TENN) is a state-supported facility used for undergraduate, graduate, and professional teaching, research, and public service. TENN houses nearly 600,000 specimens of vascular plants (ferns, cone-bearing, and flowering plants), bryophytes (mosses and liverworts), and fungi (including lichens). The collection is the primary repository of the native and naturalized plants and fungi of Tennessee, it houses the largest collection from the southern Appalachians, and a strong emphasis on the eastern U. S., Mexico, and Central America. It is a basic resource for studies in floristics, taxonomic/systematic botany, ecology---- and a database containing vast information on plants from all parts of the world.
The herbarium was established in 1888 but suffered a total loss by fire in 1934. TENN maintains active loan, exchange and gift programs, and receives and provides financial support to visitors. In addition, the general public and numerous state and federal agencies, conservation groups, environmental consultants, and legal council rely on our specimens for general information (identifications, poisonous plants, endangered species, exotics, etc.) and for data critical to biodiversity, habitat management, and conservation decisions.
TENN is associated with SERNEC (Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections). The computing center for this organization is at the Univ. of Tennessee Sun Site. SERNEC is an organization devoted to bringing the resources of nearly 150 regional herbaria of the Southeast together into one standardized, researchable database.
