Most of Kentucky's regional universities have between 20,000 and 30,000 plant specimens, according to Jones. Graduate students use the facility to obtain specimens for teaching seminars and to identify hundreds of species required for their master's theses, Jones said. I also use it for plant-identification classes. The Herbarium accepts gifts of labeled specimens. And staff members provide an identification service for those wanting to identify a plant.
Visitors are welcome, preferably by appointment.