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| California Academy of Sciences | CAS, DS. Worldwide, nearly 1.9 million specimens (27% from California); more than 95% vascular seed plants; the remainder are ferns and a growing collection of bryophytes. Emphasis is on California, North America, Latin America (especially western and southern Mexico and the Galapagos) and Asia (especially China). Vascular plant families and genera that are particularly well represented include Acanthaceae, Brassicaceae, Carex, Eriogonum, Hydrophyllaceae, Lupinus, Asteraceae (particularly Madinae), Malvaceae, Melastomataceae, Onagraceae, Penstemon, Poaceae, Polemoniaceae and Quercus. The herbarium also contains the largest collection of ornamental plants in California. | Contact: Debra Trock (dtrock at calacademy.org) www.calacademy.org/research/botany |
| California Department of Food and Agriculture | CDA. Founded in 1922, the Herbarium of the California Department of Food and Agriculture serves as a plant identification service for California state agencies, in particular the Department of Food and Agriculture. This includes invasive and horticultural plant identification and evaluation, identification of hosts for insects, plant pathogens and nematodes, as well as seed purity and viability certification programs. The collection focuses on those taxa that best support the diagnostic mission of our facility. This includes a large seed herbarium, general California weeds and native plants (particularly those that may occupy disturbed or agricultural areas), invasive pest plants from inside and outside of California and the U.S. (as well as their close relatives), plants from other areas with a Mediterranean climate, cultivated plants and their wild forms, specialty horticultural species, and general agricultural crops. Size of collection: 40,000 plus 40,000 seed accessions. Approximately 75% of the collection consists of native and naturalized plants of California. Notable collections include those of T. C. Fuller, B. Crampton (seeds), M. Ballou, G. F. Hrusa, and D. G. Kelch. | Contact information: G. Fred Hrusa (fhrusa at cdfa.ca.gov), Senior Plant Systematist Dean G. Kelch (dkelch at cdfa.ca.gov), Associate Botanist Deborah J. Meyer (dmeyer at cdfa.ca.gov), Senior Seed Botanist cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/PPD/herbarium.html |
| California State University, Chico | CHSC. The Biological Sciences Herbarium at California State University, Chico is the most complete repository of plant specimens from northeastern California. The emphasis is on the local flora, and includes a number of rare, threatened, and endangered plant species. Size of collection: 95,300, 77% from California. | Director: Greg Liggett (gliggett at csuchico.edu) Curator and data contact: Lawrence Janeway (LJaneway at csuchico) www.csuchico.edu/biol/Herb |
| Humboldt State University | HSC. Vascular plants from California, especially northwestern California. In addition, a large collection from southwestern Oregon and grasses from North America. |
Director: Michael Mesler (mrm1 at humboldt.edu) Collection manager and data contact: Robin Bencie (mrb1 at humboldt.edu) www.humboldt.edu/~herb/ |
| Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History | PGM. The herbarium of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History contains approximately 7,500 specimens which are concerned principally with the vascular plants of Monterey County, California and the adjacent inner coast range mountains which border it, including collections from San Benito, western Fresno, and portions of Kings County. Ninety percent of the collections are from Monterey County, California. The herbarium includes the Monterey County collections of Beatrice F. Howitt, duplicates of specimens sent to CAS and identified by J.T. Howell resulting in: The Vascular Plants of Monterey County, California by Beatrice F. Howeitt and John Thomas Howell, The Wasmann Journal of Bioloogy, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 1964 and Supplement published by The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History Assoc, July, 1973. | Contact: pgmuseum at mbay.net pgmuseum.org |
| Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and Pomona College combined herbaria | RSA, POM. Mainly vascular plants with worldwide scope, emphasis on arid regions, especially southern California and Baja California. Size of combined collections: 1,092,200 million specimens, 39% from California. | Herbarium Curator: Steve Boyd (steve.boyd at cgu.edu) Herbarium Collections Manager and data contact: Sula Vanderplank (sula.vanderplank at cgu.edu) Botanical Field Studies Coordinator: Naomi Fraga (Naomi.Fraga at cgu.edu) www.rsabg.org |
| San Diego Natural History Museum | SD. The herbarium holds over 180,000 specimens dating from the 1870s, primarily vascular plants, but including ~5000 marine algae. We are working on building our collection of local nonvascular plants, particularly lichens. Emphasis is on plants of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, particularly southern California and the Baja California peninsula and its adjacent islands. Taxonomic specialties are Cactaceae and Crassulaceae. The collection is nearly 75% databased as of 2008. 50% of specimens are from California. | Curator: Jon Rebman (jrebman at sdnhm.org)
Collections Manager and data contact: Judy Gibson (jgibson at sdnhm.org) www.sdnhm.org/research/botany Types database San Diego Plant Atlas |
| San Diego State University | SDSU. The SDSU herbarium houses over 17,000 specimens of vascular plants, used for teaching and research. The bulk (89%) of our collection is from California, 60% of these from San Diego County. Additional collections are primarily from the southwestern U.S., Baja California peninsula, Australia, Chile, and the south Pacific. | Curator: Michael G. Simpson (msimpson at sunstroke.sdsu.edu)
Herbarium web site: www.sci.sdsu.edu/herb Plant Systematics Resources: www.sci.sdsu.edu/plants/plantsystematics Plant Systematics at SDSU: www.sci.sdsu.edu/plants/lab |
| San Jose State University | SJSU. Carl W. Sharsmith Herbarium. Worldwide, with emphasis on California. Some fungi and lichens. Size of collection: 14,691 vascular plant specimens, each prepared by Carl W. Sharsmith, 69% from California. | Contact: Toni Corelli (corelli at coastside.net) www2.sjsu.edu/depts/herbarium |
| Santa Barbara Botanic Garden | SBBG. Vascular plants, lichens, and mosses of California; emphasis on central coast region of California and the Channel Islands. Size of collection: 150,000 specimens, 80% from California. | Contact: Dieter Wilken (dwilken at sbbg.org) www.sbbg.org |
| UC Berkeley | JEPS (Jepson Herbarium: Vascular plants of California) and UC (University Herbarium: Plants from around the world). Size of combined collections: 2,200,000 specimens, 16% from California. | Contact: Richard Moe (rlmoe at berkeley.edu) ucjeps.berkeley.edu |
| UC Davis | DAV. Worldwide, with emphasis on California, North America, and neotropics (especially Ecuador and Baja California); Quercus, Fagaceae, and Arctostaphylos, Ericaceae of New World; Euphorbiaceae; Poaceae; Clarkia (Onagraceae); Lycianthes and Lycopersicon (Solanaceae); Stephanomeria and tarweed genera (Asteraceae); Navarretia (Polemoniaceae); Allium (Alliaceae); Trifolium (Fabaceae); Prunus (Rosaceae); Central Valley of California vernal pool species; weedy and poisonous species of California and Mediterranean-climate regions; range plants of California; alpine flora of western North America. Size of collection: 300,000 specimens, 50% from California. | Director: Ellen Dean (eadean at ucdavis.edu) Data contact: Tom Starbuck (tjstarbuck at ucdavis.edu) herbarium.ucdavis.edu |
| UC Irvine | IRVC. Western U.S., especially southern California and Orange County; Baja California, Mexico. Size of collection: 35,000 vascular plant specimens, 5000 lichens and algae. 86% from California. |
Director: Peter Bowler (pabowler at uci.edu)
Data contact: Mark Elvin (melvin at uci.edu) |
| UC Riverside | UCR. 171,500 vascular plants from the New World, especially the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, including about 100,000 from California; 8700 lichens, worldwide in distribution, but especially southern California; about 10,000 other (non-lichenized) fungi. Except for the general fungi, the entire collection has been databased and 100% of the UCR native/naturalized CA vascular plant records are displayed on the Consortium site. Records from other areas can be accessed at www.herbarium.ucr.edu, as can more detailed information related to the records displayed on the Consortium. | Director: Giles Waines Data contact: Andrew Sanders (andrew.sanders at ucr.edu) www.herbarium.ucr.edu |
| UC Santa Barbara | UCSB. Mainly vascular plants of western North America, especially California; some worldwide. Size of collection: 100,000 specimens, 65%from California. | Contact: Jennifer Thorsch (thorsch at lifesci.ucsb.edu www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~mseweb |
| UC Santa Cruz | UCSC. California, with special attention to the Santa Cruz Mountains; vascular plants; lichen; fungi. Size of collection: 4,000 specimens, 88% from California | Contact: Tonya Haff (thaff at ucsc.edu) mnhc.ucsc.edu |
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