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UCSC Herbarium - Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC)

The Herbarium at the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History (UC Santa Cruz) houses more than 13,500 vascular plants, algae, lichens, bryophytes, and fungi. The collection focuses primarily on Santa Cruz County and the University of California Reserves but also contains important specimens from throughout California. The collection archives research and publication voucher specimens and also serves as a student education resource. Notable collections include those of R. Morgan (1969-2017), Dylan Neubauer, David Styer (Fort Ord National Monument collections), Neal Kramer (Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve collections), and the Bureau of Land Management (Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument collections).

Contacts: Chris Lay (Administrative Director); Al Keuter (Vascular Plants Curator), cml@ucsc.edu; akeuter@ucsc.edu
Homepage: https://norriscenter.ucsc.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3818da9e-b6a4-11e8-b408-001a64db2964
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://cch2.org/portal/content/dwca/UCSC_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Address:
UCSC Herbarium, Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA   95064
USA
(831) 459-4763
Collection Statistics
  • 16,450 specimen records
  • 13,159 (80%) georeferenced
  • 12,012 (73%) with images (12,451 total images)
  • 13,614 (83%) identified to species
  • 234 families
  • 826 genera
  • 2,356 species
  • 3,080 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics