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University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (WTU)

Contacts: David Giblin, dgiblin@uw.edu
Homepage: https://www.burkemuseum.org/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 October 2022
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Cite this collection:
University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Occurrence dataset (ID: 4a51823d-c6bd-4a1b-9d78-2edaf0676607) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2024-04-26).
Collection Statistics
  • 14,417 specimen records
  • 11,450 (79%) georeferenced
  • 13,370 (93%) with images (27,145 total images)
  • 13,887 (96%) identified to species
  • 39 families
  • 224 genera
  • 1,749 species
  • 1,970 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Alaska
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  • Aleutians East (18)
  • Aleutians West (26)
  • Anchorage (1)
  • Bristol Bay (4)
  • Denali (1)
  • Dillingham (1)
  • Fairbanks North Star (4)
  • Haines (6)
  • Juneau (31)
  • Kenai Peninsula (11)
  • Ketchikan Gateway (8)
  • Kodiak (1)
  • Kodiak Island (38)
  • Matanuska Susitna (1)
  • Nome (15)
  • North Slope (3)
  • Petersburg (6)
  • Pierce (1)
  • Prince Wales Ketchikan (5)
  • Sitka (12)
  • Skagway Yakutat Angoon (7)
  • Southeast Fairbanks (21)
  • Valdez Cordova (26)
  • Wrangell Petersburg (22)
  • Wrangell-Petersburg (3)
  • Yakutat (2)
  • Yakutat City and Borough (1)