PteridoPortal Natural History Collections and Observation Projects


ASU-PBC

Arizona State University Fossil Plant Collection

The Plant Fossil Collections are curated by Kathleen B. Pigg. Our holdings include around 15,000 megafossil specimens as well as coal balls and silicifications, a fossil and extant palynomorph collection, and extant wood and anatomical sections. Strengths of the collection include Late Paleocene, Eocene and Miocene floras of western North America, Gondawana floras of Australia, and Paleozoic and Cretaceous plant fossils of Arizona.

Curator: Kathleen B. Pigg, kpigg@asu.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0002-8182-8461)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


ASU-Plants

Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium

The Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium is the second largest in the Arid Southwest with over 310,000 specimens. Our collection of Cactaceae is one of the best in the world, being particularly rich in cytological vouchers. ASU Type Specimens: http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/checklists/checklist.php?cl=2638
Contacts: Elizabeth Makings, Elizabeth.Makings@asu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File

Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Herbarium Pacificum)

The Herbarium Pacificum (BISH) collection consists of more than 710,000 plant, algae and fungi specimens. Our emphasis is on Hawai‘i and the Pacific Basin, but we also house representative material from other world regions. The collections of Hawaiian plants form the largest and most comprehensive assemblage of such specimens in the world, with approximately 187,000 specimens.
Contacts: Barbara Kennedy, bkennedy@bishopmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 16 March 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File


BRIT

Botanical Research Institute of Texas

The BRIT herbarium contains approximately 1,445,000 plant specimens from around the world, making it one of the largest herbaria in the United States.

Contacts: Alejandra Vasco, avascog@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Botanical Research Institute of Texas


BRU

Brown University

The Brown University Herbarium was founded in 1869 when the University acquired the collections of the Providence Franklin Society and Stephen Thayer Olney. The collection includes around 100,000 plant specimens and is an important depository of Rhode Island and New England collections. It is also rich in western and southern North American plants and includes special sets of historically valuable specimens from 19th and early 20th century western US expeditions. Among other important collections, the herbarium also includes a full set of Charles Wright’s Cuban plants (1856-1867) and a unique and classic collection of Carex. Click here to download a pdf brochure describing the herbarium.
Contacts: Rebecca Kartzinel, rebecca_kartzinel@brown.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: Brown University

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington

Contacts: Caroline Stromberg, caestrom@uw.edu
Collections Manager: Paige Wilson Deibel, wilsonp2@uw.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 August 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)

California Botanic Garden Herbarium

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


YPM-NCBS

Connecticut Botanical Society Herbarium

The Connecticut Botanical Society are a group of amateur and professional botanists who share an interest in the plants and habitats of Connecticut and the surrounding region. The society was founded in 1903. Our goals are to increase knowledge of the state's flora, to accumulate a permanent botanical record, and to promote conservation and public awareness of the state's rich natural heritage.
Contacts: Patrick Sweeney, patrick.sweeney@yale.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 April 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Connecticut Botanical Society

Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Paleobotany collection at the DMNS

Contacts: Gussie MacCracken, gussie.maccracken@dmns.org (ORCID #: 0000-0003-3360-8824)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 September 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


DUKE

Duke University

The Duke Herbarium contains over 800,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, algae, lichens, and basidiomycete fungi, including more than 1900 types. The collection is especially rich in specimens from the southeastern United States, but has synoptic representation worldwide.
Contacts: Layne Huiet, rlh22@duke.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


FMNH-PALEOBOTANY

Field Museum of Natural History Fossil Pteridophyte Collection

The Paleobotany Collection spans 3.8 billion years of history but has its major strengths in the Late Paleozoic and Cretaceous-Paleogene.
Contacts: Fabiany Herrera, fherrera@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 December 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


F

Field Museum of Natural History Pteridophyte Collection

The pteridophyte collection ranks fourth in the nation in size and includes more than 106,000 specimens of ferns and fern allies, including 373 types. The collection is worldwide in scope but has a strong concentration in tropical America. The Ferns and Fern Allies of Guatemala and Pteridophyta of Peru were based primarily on our holdings. Central American and Mexican collections include the outstanding material of Standley, Steyermark, Molina and L. O. Williams (Guatemala), Matuda, Ringle and Purpus (Mexico), Molina, Williams, Shimek (Nicaragua), and Brenes and Austin Smith (Costa Rica). South American material includes specimens from J. F. Macbride, Mexia, Killip and Smith, and both Carlos and José Schunke (Peru), Cuatrecasas (Colombia), Steyermark and Llewelyn Williams (Venezuela), Acosta Solis (Ecuador), Buchtien and Steinbach (Bolivia), and Brade (Brazil). Although Old World specimens are not especially numerous, they include valuable collections of Blanchard (Africa), Boivin and Humblot (Réunion, Madagascar) and Zenker (Cameroon).
Contacts: Matt Von Konrat, Collections Manager, mvonkonrat@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b7a4dd5c-99c5-43d7-84bb-f5d3596419e9
Digital Metadata: EML File

Fundación Jardín Botánico Joaquín Antonio Uribe de Medellín - Helechos y Licofitas

El herbario del Jardín Botánico “Joaquín Antonio Uribe” de Medellín (JAUM) es un referente nacional e internacional para la flora de Colombia y en especial para el departamento de Antioquia. Fue fundado en 1972 con una colección inicial de orquídeas bajo el nombre “Herbario de Orquídeas Mariano Ospina Hernández”. Actualmente, el herbario JAUM tiene más de 97,000 especímenes registrados, organizados y conservados bajo los sistemas de clasificación taxonómica APG IV y PPG. El herbario alberga más de 1200 colecciones tipo y posee plantas de todas las regiones biogeográficas y zonas de vida de Colombia. Se destacan entre sus colecciones una buena representatividad de helechos y licofitas.

The herbarium of the “Joaquín Antonio Uribe” Botanical Garden of Medellín (JAUM) is a national and international reference for the flora of Colombia and especially for the department of Antioquia. It was founded in 1972 with an initial collection of orchids under the name “Mariano Ospina Hernández Orchid Herbarium”. Currently, the JAUM herbarium has more than 97,000 specimens registered, organized, and preserved under the APG IV and PPG taxonomic classification systems. The herbarium houses more than 1200 type collections and has plants from all the biogeographic regions and life zones of Colombia. Among its collections stand out a good representation of ferns and lycophytes.

Administrator (at BRIT): Kimberlie Sasan, ksasan@brit.org
Líder de Colecciones: Alvaro Idárraga, alvaro.idarraga@jbotanico.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Fundación Jardín Botánico Joaquín Antonio Uribe de Medellín


UT-Botany

Garrett Herbarium, Natural History Museum of Utah

Contacts: Elizabeth P. Johnson, johnson@nhmu.utah.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Natural History Museum of Utah


iNaturalist

iNaturalist Fern Observations

Contacts: iNaturalist Help, help@inaturalist.org
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


IND

Indiana University

The Department of Biology administers the Indiana University Herbarium (IND). Founded in 1885, the herbarium houses over 152,000 specimens of vascular plants, including the collections of Charles C. Deam on which the Flora of Indiana is based.
Contacts: Eric Knox, eknox@indiana.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The Trustees of Indiana University

Joseph F. Rock Herbarium (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa)

The Joseph F. Rock Herbarium houses and maintains voucher specimens of plants that reflect the teaching, research, and project efforts of faculty, staff, and students at UH Manoa. The Lyon Arboretum herbarium (HLA), which included more than 8000 specimens of cultivated plants was merged with HAW in 2005 as part of an NSF award. The Lyon Arboretum collection includes native Hawaiian flora and introduced accessions collected on the grounds of Lyon Arboretum.
Contacts: Patricia Sendao, sendao@hawaii.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


TEX

Lundell and University of Texas at Austin herbaria

The University of Texas Herbarium (TEX) is part of the Plant Resources Center, which houses the combined herbaria of TEX and the Lundell Herbarium (LL). The combined PRC collections include over one million specimens from all parts of the world and represent the fifth largest university herbarium in the United States (with the fourth largest university collection of vascular plants). The two herbaria (TEX and LL) are completely integrated and interfiled, although each sheet is marked as to its herbarium and should be cited as such. The University of Texas Herbarium itself, with close to 700,000 specimens, dates to the 1890s and is especially strong in Texas and Mexican specimens. It has been associated with a plant systematics graduate program that has been one of the strongest in the U.S. since the 1960s, and the research interests of faculty, staff and graduate students have led to very strong representation of Asteraceae, Fabaceae, and Rhamnaceae, among other families, as well as the Chihuahuan Desert region (Mexico and the U.S.) and the mountains and plains of northeastern Mexico. All new specimens received into the Plant Resources Center are now accessioned into TEX.

Contacts: George Yatskievych, george.yatskievych@austin.utexas.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


MU

Miami University, Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium

Miami University is the home of Ohio's largest herbarium, the Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium. The herbarium's holdings of approximately 620,000 specimens are worldwide in both geographical and taxonomic coverage. The collection consists of 330,000 vascular plant specimens, as well as 140,000 bryophytes, 100,000 fungi, 35,000 lichens, 10,000 algae, and 5,000 fossil plants. There are several thousand type specimens contained in the collection, as well as many sets of cryptogamic exsiccatae. Active exchange programs are ongoing with many herbaria worldwide to ensure the continued breadth and depth of the collection. The W.S. Turrell Herbarium Fund is an endowment which benefits the herbarium, and is restricted to support of the research activities of the staff and students in systematic botany.
Curator: Gretchen Meier, meierga@miamioh.edu, (513) 529-2755
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


MSC

Michigan State University

The MSU Herbarium was founded in 1863 with the donation of a large collection of plants from Michigan and the eastern U.S. Today, we remain focused on plant and fungal diversity from Michigan, but the collection is also rich in plants from Mexico and southeast Asia, and lichens from the Caribbean and the subantarctic region. With over half a million specimens, the MSU Herbarium is among the 50 largest herbaria in the United States, whereas the lichen collection, with 120,000 accessioned collections, is among the 10 largest in North America and, because of its geographical scope, of international importance.
Contacts: Alan Prather, alan@msu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File


MO

Missouri Botanical Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Herbarium is one of the world’s outstanding research resources for specimens and information on bryophytes and vascular plants. The collection is limited to these two major groups of plants. As of 31 December 2015 the collection had 6.66 million specimens (6.1 million vascular plants and 563,000 bryophytes). This specimen dataset includes over 4.4 million records (4.0 million vascular plants and 300,000 bryophytes).
Contacts: James Solomon, jim.solomon@mobot.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 11 December 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)

Museo de Historia Natural

Contacts: Blanca León, leon@austin.utexas.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 223cf9ab-6e67-4315-8708-deaaf7912e60
Digital Metadata: EML File


MFM-Pt

Museo del Fin del Mundo - Colección Pteridophytas

Specimens of Lycophytas and Monilophytas, corresponding to the families Lycopodiaceae, Isoetaceae, Ophioglossaceae, Grammitaceae, Azollaceae, Hymenophyllaceae, Aspleniaceae, Athyriaceae, Aspidiaceae, Blechnaceae, Gleicheniaceae on herbarium sheets. The specimens were collected in the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands, Argentina between 1967 and 2009.

Ejemplares de Lycophytas y Monilophytas, correspondientes a las familias  Lycopodiaceae, Isoetaceae, Ophioglossaceae, Grammitaceae, Azollaceae, Hymenophyllaceae, Aspleniaceae, Athyriaceae, Aspidiaceae, Blechnaceae, Gleicheniaceae en pliegos de herbario. Los especímenes fueron recolectados en la provincia de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur, Argentina entre 1967 y 2009.

Curator (Curadora): María Regina Silva, mrsilva@tdf.edu.ar (ORCID #: 0000-0002-6451-6319)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a5e2ca3e-e438-45f4-85a0-49f87d1ad710
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Museo del Fin del Mundo - Provincia de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur


MNA

Museum of Northern Arizona

Walter B. McDougall Herbarium Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 North Fort Valley Road Flagstaff, Arizona 86001 U.S.A.
Contacts: Kirstin Olmon Phillips, kphillips@musnaz.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


MNA-P

Museum of Northern Arizona (fossils)

Director of Research & Collections: Anthony Thibodeau, athibodeau@musnaz.org, 928-774-5211 ext.263
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c825c0f9-27c2-43e0-989a-e514b14ee7b7
Digital Metadata: EML File

Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 October 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


NY

New York Botanical Garden

The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden holds a collection of more than seven million preserved specimens. All plant groups – flowering plants, conifers, ferns, mosses, liverworts, and algae, as well as, fungi and lichens – are represented in the Herbarium collection, which is particularly strong in specimens from the Americas. Digitization of all groups is underway, with more than 4.5 million specimens barcoded and 3.6 million specimens imaged.

Director of the Herbarium: Emily Sessa, esessa@nybg.org
Assistant Director of Botanical Information Management: Kim Watson, kwatson@nybg.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 December 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


BHO

Ohio University, Bartley Herbarium

Currently, the Bartley Herbarium consists of approximately 55,000 mounted and accessioned specimens, plus several thousand additional unmounted and unaccessioned specimens being processed. Of these, 30, 657 specimens were collected in Ohio, with the remainder being mostly from other parts of the eastern United States. Our Herbarium is the largest in Appalachian Ohio and seventh largest in the state. It is particularly rich in specimens from southern and southeastern Ohio, due to the efforts of Floyd Bartley and subsequent botanists who have been active in the region. It has the largest holding of vascular plant specimens from the unglaciated, Appalachian region of Ohio. The Bartley Herbarium is the main repository for flora projects conducted in this region, as well as the recipient of vouchers from ecological investigations and regional systematic studies of particular plant groups.
Herbarium Director & Curator: Harvey E. Ballard, ballardh@ohio.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


OSC-V

Oregon State University Vascular Plant Collection

The Oregon State University Herbarium houses approximately 550,000 vascular plant, bryophyte, algal, and fungal specimens. The collections are worldwide in scope, with a focus on the state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

Contacts: Thea Jaster, jastert@oregonstate.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 December 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Contacts: Rob Cubey
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 28 November 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File

Royal Ontario Museum Invertebrate Palaeontology Collection - Pteridophytes

The ROM Invertebrate Palaeontology Collection is the second largest collection of this type in Canada (after the Geological Survey of Canada) and represents an irreplaceable systematic resource for researchers and students around the world about invertebrate fossils, fossilized plants, trace fossils, and microbial structures. The collection consists of about half a million specimens, including ca. 700 Holotypes, ca. 3,000 Paratypes, and ca. 10,000 figured and referred specimens.

The collection is global in scope with scientifically significant material spanning the entire geological column and holds the largest and most comprehensive Burgess Shale collection in the world on behalf of Parks Canada. Highlights of our collection are prominently featured in the newly opened Willner Madge Gallery, Dawn of Life.

Collections Technician: Maryam Akrami, makrami@rom.on.ca, 1-416-586-5502
Curator: Jean-Bernard Caron, jcaron@rom.on.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 December 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Copyright Royal Ontario Museum


CHRB

Rutgers University, Chrysler Herbarium

The Chrysler Herbarium (CHRB) at Rutgers University is the last internationally recognized herbarium still in existence in the state of New Jersey (USA). Over 150,000 vascular plant and algal collections, about 7,000 moss and liverwort specimens, and 2,600 lichen specimens form our collection and are arranged and catalogued systematically. The collection is worldwide in scope, with an emphasis on New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic area, and contains specimens back to the early 1800s. The Rutgers Mycological Herbarium (RUTPP), which is housed together with CHRB, has been estimated to contain more than 40,000 fungal collections, and has a strong focus on microfungi and plant pathogens. Dr. James White is the curator of the mycological collections, and Dr. Lena Struwe is the Director of the Chrysler Herbarium.
Contacts: Lena Struwe, lena.struwe@rutgers.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)

SEINet Pteridophyte Data

This dataset contains all pteridophyte specimens from the SEINet portal network that are not independently listed as collections in PteridoPortal. This includes the following collections: ALBC, ANHC, APCR, APSC, ARCH, ARIZ, ASC, ASDM, ASU, AUA, AUGIE, AVCH, AWC, BAYLU, BCH, BCMEX, BCWS, BDI, BDWR, BENN, BEREA, BHSC, BLM, BOON, BRIT, BRY, BTA, Bureau of Land Management, BUT, CALVIN, CATU, CAU, CGCC, CHAS, CIAD, CIBO, CLEMS, CM, CMC, CMN, COCO, COLO, CONV, CS, CSCN, DAV, DBG, DEK, DES, DOV, DSC, DSUND, DWC, ECUH, EIU, EKY, EMC, ENLC, ENMU, ENO, ERDC, ETSU, FARM, FHKSC, FLD, FMUH, FSU, FTG, FTU, FUGR, FWNC, GA, GAS, GEO, GMUF, GND, GREE, GSMNP, GSW, GVSC, Harvard, HBSH, HCHM, HCIAD, HCIB, HEND, HJAAA-FCB, HLSD, HOSP, HPC, HSU, HTTU, HUDC, HUNT, HXC, IBE, institutionCode, IPN, ISC, ISTC, IUP, JEF, JUFL, KBL, KE, KNFY, KNK, KSP, LAF, LCDI, LFCC, LOB, LSU, LSUA, LSUS, LUC, LYN, MARY, MCA, MDKY, MEM, MESA, MISS, MISSA, MMNS, MOAR, MOR, MOVC, MSUNH, MTSU, MUHW, MUR, MUSK, MWCF, MWI, NAVA, NBYC, NC, NCSC, NCZP, ND, NDOA, NEON, NHI, NLU, NO, NPS, NTSC, OBI, ODU, OKL, OKLA, OS, OSH, PAC, PAUH, PEMB, PIHG, PUA, PUSC, RARO, RENO, RMBL, SALK, SAU, SBAC, SBBG, SC, SCFS, SCIR, SD, SDSU, SEINet, SELU, SENEY, SFRP, SIM, SJNM, SLRO, SNM, SPIF, STAR, SUCO, SUU, SWANER, SWMT, SWRS, SWSL, TAC, TAES, TAWES, TCNJ, TENN, THIB, TLU, TREC, TROY, TSJC, TTC, TTRS, UADY, UAM, UARK, UAS, UAT, UCAC, UCHT, UCOL, UCR, UCSC, UNA, UNCA, UNCC, UNLV, UNM, UOS, uruza, URV, USAM, USCS, USF, USFS, USFS/BHSC, USFWS, USFWS-, USMS, USON, USU, Utah State University, UTEP, UTM, UVSC, UWFP, UWGB, UWL, UWM, UWSP, VCU, VDB, VMIL, VPI, VSC, VSUH, WASH, WCUH, Weber State University, WET, WEWO, WFU, WGC, WILLI, WIN, WINU, WLM, WS, WSC, WVW, ZNP.

Localities, images, and coordinate data for specimens of protected species have been redacted and can be accessed directly through SEINet with the appropriate permissions.

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data harvested from a data aggregator
Last Update: 17 March 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


US

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 October 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File


PH

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

The herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH) is the oldest institutional herbarium in the United States. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850. The diatom herbarium (ANSP) is managed separately.
Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, crs344@drexel.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


CINC

The Margaret H. Fulford Herbarium at the University of Cincinnati

Founded in 1927, The Margaret H. Fulford Herbarium at the University of Cincinnati (CINC) is the third largest of Ohio’s 17 herbaria. Our collection contains an estimated 118,500 specimens. 

Curator of the Margaret H Fulford Herbarium at the University of Cincinnati: Eric Tepe, tepeej@ucmail.uc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


UC

University and Jepson Herbaria

The University and Jepson Herbaria of the University of California at Berkeley are two collections of pressed plants housed together along with research labs, libraries, and archives. Together the Herbaria hold about 2,200,000 specimens, one of the largest collections in North America.
Contacts: Amy Kasameyer, akasameyer@berkeley.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: def1a09f-f006-40e3-aac5-9733f980b351
Digital Metadata: EML File


ALA

University of Alaska

The Herbarium (ALA) at the University of Alaska Museum is the major regional herbarium in Alaska and part of a network of similar collections with an interest in the origin and evolution of the circumpolar flora. ALA contains more than 260,000 specimens of vascular and non-vascular plants. Data for the Vascular Plant and Cryptogam collections are managed separately in Arctos. Much of our understanding of Ice Age Beringia is based on botanical specimens, the largest collection of which is housed at ALA. Our recent acquisition from Iowa State University of the J. P. Anderson Collection (32,000 specimens on permanent loan) forms a significant part of this story. This collection of arctic and boreal plants, which contains 67 nomenclatural type specimens, formed the basis for much of Anderson’s seminal work, The Flora of Alaska. The botanical collection also includes plants from other states, Canada, Greenland, Fennoscandia, Japan, and Russia and provides a basis for teaching and research. Our botanical collection can be viewed and searched through the Arctos database and includes high resolution images of 163,000 herbarium sheets, online representation of 190,000 holdings, and inclusion of all holdings in an object-tracking system (barcode labeling).
Contacts: Stefanie Ickert-Bond, smickertbond@alaska.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


UCMP-P

University of California Museum of Paleontology

Contacts: Diane M. Erwin, dmerwin@berkeley.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 11 August 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


FLAS

University of Florida Herbarium

The University of Florida Herbarium is a unit of the Department of Natural History of the Florida Museum of Natural History. The herbarium is affiliated with the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Florida Cooperative Extension Service and the Department of Plant Pathology. The FLAS acronym is the standard international abbreviation for the University of Florida Herbarium. It is derived from the herbarium's early association with the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station.
Contacts: Kent D. Perkins, kperkins@flmnh.ufl.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS), Florida Museum of Natural History


KANU

University of Kansas Ronald L. McGregor Herbarium - Pteridophytes

Housing approximately 445,000 specimens, including 400,000 vascular plant specimens, 40,000 lichens, and smaller holdings of bryophytes and non-lichenized fungi, the R. L. McGregor Herbarium (KANU) is dedicated to the study of the flora of the Great Plains, the grassland biome of central North America. The greater part of vascular plant and lichen specimens deposited in KANU represent the flora of the Great Plains and herbarium staff is involved in taxonomic and floristic studies of the region. Our goal is to expand our understanding of past and current botanical diversity of the Great Plains and to preserve this knowledge for the future. Specimens are digitized using Specify 6. To date, approximately 300,000 (67%) of all holdings have been computerized; of these, approximately 105,000 vascular plant specimens have been imaged, as well.

Collection Manager: Caleb Morse, cmorse@ku.edu
Curator: Craig Freeman, ccfree@ku.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Access Rights: http://biodiversity.ku.edu/research/university-kansas-biodiversity-institute-data-publication-and-use-norms


NLU

University of Louisiana at Monroe Herbarium

The R. Dale Thomas Collection - University of Louisiana Monroe (NLU) collection was transferred to the Botanical Research Institute of Texas in 2017. Please contact Tiana Rehman (trehman@brit.org) with any questions regarding the collection.
Director of the Herbarium: Tiana Rehman, trehman@brit.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File

University of Michigan

Contacts: Robyn Burnham, rburnham@umich.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 21 September 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File


MICH

University of Michigan Herbarium

Specialty: Worldwide, especially temperate North America and the Great Lakes region. Specific strengths include marine algae of eastern North America, West Indies, Alaska, and Pacific Islands; bryophytes of tropical America; Agaricaceae and Hymenogastraceae of western North America; vascular plants of Mexico, Iran, Himalayas, southwestern Pacific Region, and southeastern Asia; Cyperaceae, Malpighiaceae, and Myrtaceae of the New World.

Date Founded: 1837.

Technical Support: Garth Holman, gholman@umich.edu
Collection Manager: Brad Ruhfel, umherb-data@umich.edu
Collection Manager: Aly Baumgartner, umherb-data@umich.edu
Technical Support: Matthew Cruz, mcruz@umich.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 January 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File

University of Minnesota

Contacts: George Weiblen, museum-herbarium@umn.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 December 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File


NHA

University of New Hampshire, Albion Hodgdon Herbarium

The NHA herbarium comprises approximately 200,000 specimens (120,000 vascular plants, 80,000 marine algae, and 550 bryophytes and lichens). The collection contains a combination of historic and recently collected specimens, including 97 nomenclatural type specimens and voucher specimens supporting taxonomic, ecological, and biogeographic research. While our specimens represent plant species worldwide, the collections emphasize northeastern North America and are especially strong in representing freshwater and marine habitats. An additional strength is our extensive collection of Neotropical aquatic species.
Contacts: Christopher Neefus, chris.neefus@unh.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: Albion Hodgdon Herbarium, University of New Hampshire
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/


NCU-PC

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (fossils)

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) is a department within the North Carolina Botanical Garden of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The vascular plant collection is world-wide in scope with focus on the native flora of the southeastern United States. NCU also curates plant fossils, fungi, lichens, bryophytes, & macroalgae. NCU is open to the public & welcomes researchers; contact Curator to reserve on-campus parking permit. STATEMENT ON OFFENSIVE CONTENT ON SPECIMEN LABELS: Collection records at NCU may contain language that reflects historical place or taxon names in an original form that is no longer acceptable or appropriate in an inclusive environment. Because NCU preserves data in their original form to retain authenticity and facilitate research, we have chosen to facilitate conversations and are committed to address the problem of racial, derogatory and demeaning language that may be found in our database. Insensitive or offensive language is not condoned by NCU. We recognize the land and sovereignty of Native and Indigenous nations in Chapel Hill, in North Carolina, in North America, and across the world. The North Carolina Botanical Garden and the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation acknowledge that the story told about the history of the land we steward has been incomplete. Before the Morgans and Masons, these lands were home to multiple tribes and the ancestors of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, who persist locally to this day. We recognize that at least one of the adjacent lands we steward, Mason Farm Biological Reserve, was first cleared, cultivated, and worked by Native Americans and later by African enslaved people. We invite you to reflect on our individual and community roles in knowing important and untold stories about the land we each steward.

Curatrix of Fossils: Patricia Gensel, pgensel@email.unc.edu
Herbarium Director: Alan Weakley, weakley@unc.edu, +1-919-962-0522
Herbarium Curatrix: Carol Ann McCormick, mccormick@unc.edu, +1-919-962-6931
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d9cb689d-8d36-4cee-84b2-a1cf0d45b5cf
Digital Metadata: EML File


NCU-Pteridophytes

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Pteridophytes (extant)

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) is a Department of the North Carolina Botanical Garden of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The vascular plant collection is world-wide in scope, and focuses on the native flora of the Southeastern United States. Our pteridophyte collection is world-wide in scope, with approximately 50% of the specimens from the Southeastern United States. NCU also curates plant fossils (esp. Devonian and collections of Patricia Gensel), fungi (esp. collections of William Chambers Coker, John Nathaniel Couch, Arthur Bliss Seymour), lichens (esp. collections of Gary Perlmutter), bryophytes, and algae (esp. red marine algae of temperate zones and collections of Max Hommersand and Paul Gabrielson). NCU is open to the public & welcomes researchers; contact Curator to reserve on-campus parking permit. STATEMENT ON OFFENSIVE CONTENT ON SPECIMEN LABELS: Collection records NCU may contain language that reflects historical place or taxon names in an original form that is no longer acceptable or appropriate in an inclusive environment. Because NCU preserves data in their original form to retain authenticity and facilitate research, we have chosen to facilitate conversations and are committed to address the problem of racial, derogatory and demeaning language that may be found in our database. Insensitive or offensive language is not condoned by NCU.

Herbarium Curatrix: Carol Ann McCormick, mccormick@unc.edu, +1-919-962-6931
Curatrix of Fossils: Patricia Gensel, pgensel@email.unc.edu
Herbarium Director: Alan Weakley, weakley@unc.edu, +1-919-962-0522
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


USCH

University of South Carolina, A. C. Moore Herbarium Vascular Plant Collection - Pteridophytes

The A. C. Moore Herbarium is an important part of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina (Columbia Campus). Founded in 1907 by Dr. Andrew Charles Moore, the original collection of dried plant specimens is now part of an ever-growing collection. Total holdings are just over 120,000 specimens, making the A. C. Moore Herbarium the largest in the state of South Carolina. Researchers and visitors will find a diverse collection of vascular and nonvascular plant material primarily from the Southeastern United States and more specifically from South Carolina. Now over 100 years old, the A. C. Moore Herbarium continues to be an indispensable resource for botanical knowledge. Note to users: Some data fields contain HTML formatting. Please contact us for assistance if this presents an issue with its use.

Herbarium Curator: Herrick Brown, hbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
GIS Guru: Csilla Czako, czakoc@dnr.sc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File


VT

University of Vermont - Pringle Herbarium

The Pringle Herbarium (VT) contains 300,000 specimens, including vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, algae and fungi. Of these, this portal will contain about 180,000 vascular plant specimens, including all vascular plant specimens except for those from New England. Other digitization projects cover type specimens, vascular plant specimens from New England, North American bryophytes and lichens, macroalgae and macrofungi. These images and data are available through various other portals. The herbarium does not maintain its own online database.

Curator: Weston L. Testo, wtesto@uvm.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Vermont

University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

Contacts: David Giblin, dgiblin@uw.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


WIS-Pteridophyte

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin State Herbarium

The Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS), formerly known as the University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbarium, was founded in 1849, and is a scientific collection of pressed, dried, labeled, and classified plants and fungi. It also preserves notes, illustrations, and other material about plants, and it maintains its own valuable Herbarium Library. The collection of more than 1.2 million specimens is of regional, national, and international importance. Approximately one-fourth of its vascular plant specimens are from Wisconsin, all of which have been databased and are searchable online. In addition, most of the world's floras are well represented, and the holdings from certain areas such as the Upper Midwest, eastern North America, western Mexico, and the Arctic (primarily lichens) are widely recognized as resources of global significance. The herbarium occupies two floors of the east wing of historic Birge Hall at the top of Bascom Hill on the UW-Madison campus. In addition to its specimen holdings, visitors to WIS have access to high-quality microscopes, an extensive library of books, reprints and maps, computer workstations, and internet connections for personal computers. WIS serves as the state of Wisconsin's official repository of plant specimen vouchers, and is actively engaged in educating students and sharing our passion for plants with the public. The faculty, staff, and students associated with the herbarium are engaged in a variety of local, regional, national, and international efforts to document, showcase, and protect plant diversity.
Contacts: Kenneth M. Cameron, kmcameron@wisc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 July 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


VDB

Vanderbilt University Herbarium

Contacts: Tiana Rehman, herbarium@brit.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


WVA

West Virginia University Herbarium

Contacts: Donna Ford-Werntz, dford2@wvu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


YPM-YU

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Founded in 1864 by Daniel Cady Eaton from his personal library and plant collection, the Yale Herbarium is an internationally recognized repository with holdings of approximately 350,000 specimens from throughout the world. There are an estimated 6,000 type specimens. The collection is particularly rich in ferns, bryophytes and grasses, as well as in historically important materials from early botanical collectors. In addition, it was the herbarium of record for the flora of southern New England from 1864 until 1955, when that function passed to the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
Senior Collections Manager: Patrick Sweeney, patrick.sweeney@yale.edu, 203-432-3537
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 44b6a77e-4e99-4761-83ca-f6af93a7d0d9
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Access Rights: http://peabody.yale.edu/about-us/terms-use-what-you-need-know


YU

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (Paleobotany)

Contacts: Shuseng Hu, shusheng.hu@yale.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History