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Welcome to the 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.
 •The University Herbarium, established in 1895, holds botanical collections from around the world.
 •The Jepson Herbarium, established in 1950, specializes in the vascular plants of California.
News from the Herbaria

SO BE FREE 17 ** MARCH 27 through 30, 2012, Inner North Coast Range, near Cobb, CA. The 2012 SO BE FREE bryophyte foray will be held in the Cobb Mt. area near Clear Lake in Lake County, California.
Register by Feb 24, 2012.

Botany Lunch New schedule for spring

The debut of the new Manual was a hit at the San Diego CNPS conference. (photo Bob Allen)

Jepson eFlora is formally posted

UC/JEPS and growing trend to associate herbarium archives with specimen data

Jepson Herbarium Workshops 2011 Year in Review

Volunteer Saturdays 2011-2012: September 17, October 15, November 19, December 17, January 21, February 11, March 17, April 21 (Cal Day), May 19

UC received major funding as part of a large consortium to digitize bryophyte and lichen collections across the nation, in the new Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program at NSF.

Isabelle I. Tavares: October 6, 1921–May 21, 2011


Visit by Kurdistan Botanical Garden Delegation

CalDay April 16, 2011!

Once again, the Herbaria flung open their doors to the public for the annual open house. Young and old alike crowded in to learn about the herbaria, see local wildflowers, press a specimen of their own, and hear talks by experts.

Major NSF grant received by the Consortium of California Herbaria

UC/JEPS Curator of Fungi John Taylor leads a novel study combining genomics and ecology in an important paper on bread molds

SO BE FREE 16 was held 23-26th March, 2011, in the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains

New Publications from UC Herbarium Researchers

CALIFORNIA MOSSES Co-authored by UC/JEPS researchers Dan Norris and Jim Shevock, with famed macro-photographers Bill and Nancy Malcom. This book is a work of art as well as of science, and is available from the California Native Plant Society. The book features easy-to-read descriptions of each species, as well as spectacular photos of habitats, reproductive structures, and high-quality color micrographs of key morphological features. Available from the California Native Plant Society.


MAGNIFICENT CHINESE AND AMERICAN REDWOODS
Edited by UC researcher Momei Chen, this book features the ancient redwood lineages in both China and the United States, and provides scientific material in both Chinese and English. The book bridges language and cultural barriers and will hopefully focus public attention on these endangered trees in both countries.


Learn about our contributions to the
Global Plants Initiative, a searchable online database of type specimens from herbaria around the world!

Curatorial Volunteers Needed at University and Jepson Herbaria.

One Saturday of each month is a Volunteer Day in the Herbaria. Work with Herbaria staff to help prepare mounted plant specimens and database collections. Learn more about how you can help!

 

Archive of past news items...

Featured Projects
 
The Jepson Manual

The primary focus of Jepson Flora Project is a five-year initiative (2003–2008) to produce a scientifically revised Jepson Manual. The Second Edition will provide revised treatments for all taxa in the 1993 edition of the Manual and include new treatments for taxa that have been added to the flora of the state since 1993. Read more...

   
Consortium of California Herbaria

The Consortium of California Herbaria serves as a gateway to information from California vascular plant specimens that are housed in herbaria throughout the state. The database now includes information from nearly 900,000 specimens, all searchable through a single interface. Read more...

   
CalEON The California Ecological Observatory Network (CalEON) is a regional network of field sites, natural history museums, and university labs. CalEON is dedicated to facilitating a cutting-edge network of ecological measurement and observation systems, connected via informatics with data from museum collections and laboratory studies ranging from taxonomy through physiology and genomics. Read more...
   
Green Tree of Life

The objective of the Green Tree of Life project is to resolve the primary pattern of evolutionary diversification among green plants and establish a model for doing so that will be applicable to other groups of organisms with long evolutionary histories. Read more..

   
Baldwin Lab

Evolutionary and systematic studies of Californian vascular plants are a major research focus of the Baldwin Lab in the Jepson Herbarium, where investigations of the highly diverse native tarweeds and their Hawaiian-silversword descendants continue apace. Read more...

 
 
Berkeley Natural History Museums   The University and Jepson Herbaria are part of the Berkeley Natural History Museum Consortium.
 
 
Picea breweriana, Trinity Alps, California - Photo credit: John Game