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Freshman Danielle Hacker and Collections Manager Kim Kersh at Cal Day 2006 - Photo credit: Peg Skorpinski (click for News item)
Girl with carnivorous plant - Cal Day 2006 (click for News item) Moss - Polytrichum sp. - Photo credit: Eric Harris (click for personal page) Flowering plant - Eriogonum truncatum - Photo credit: Scott Hein of Save Mount Diablo (click for News item) Alga - Antithamnion cruciatum - Photo credit: Athanasios Athanasiadis (click for publication in Constancea) Flowering plant - Madia elegans "densifolia" - Photo credit: Bruce G. Baldwin (click for Baldwin Lab) Flowering plant - Allium crispum - Photo credit: John Game (click for John Game's photographs) Plant display and lecturer - Cal Day 2006 (click for News item) Moss - Sphagnum mendocinum - Photo credit: John Game (click for BryoLab)
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
The Jepson Herbarium participates in the 2008 California Wildflower Show at the Oakland Museum
Hundreds of wildflowers from around the state on display; slide lectures on horticulture, California flora, and the history of plant collecting in the state. Link
Saturday, April 19 10 AM - 5 PM
Sunday, April 20 1 PM - 4 PM
More news...
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