DAV - UC Davis Herbarium (DAV)

University of California, Davis herbarium collections are 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: 320,000 specimens, 50% from California.

Collections Manager: Teri Barry, tcbarry@ucdavis.edu, (530) 752-1091
Curator: Alison Colwell, aelcolwell@ucdavis.edu, (530) 752-1091 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-3011-3933)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: cc54a5fd-2e20-4ea6-8871-b2af436d9de3
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
UC Davis Herbarium
UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity, Plant Sciences M.S. 7
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA   95616
USA
(530) 752-1091
Collection Statistics
  • 143,913 specimen records
  • 117,188 (81%) georeferenced
  • 81,878 (57%) with images (82,039 total images)
  • 136,768 (95%) identified to species
  • 364 families
  • 3,253 genera
  • 13,228 species
  • 15,945 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Ammi (30)
  • Angelica (195)
  • Anthriscus (46)
  • Apiastrum (32)
  • Apium (17)
  • Arracacia (3)
  • Azorella (1)
  • Berula (12)
  • Bowlesia (12)
  • Bupleurum (9)
  • Capnophyllum (1)
  • Carum (2)
  • Chaerophyllum (1)
  • Cicuta (47)
  • Cnidium (1)
  • Conioselinum (1)
  • Conium (56)
  • Coriandrum (9)
  • Crithmum (2)
  • Cryptotaenia (1)
  • Cyclospermum (22)
  • Cymopterus (67)
  • Daucus (101)
  • Echinophora (3)
  • Erigenia (1)
  • Eryngium (275)
  • Foeniculum (38)
  • Glehnia (3)
  • Heracleum (57)
  • Hydrocotyle (4)
  • Ligusticum (64)
  • Lilaeopsis (13)
  • Lomatium (467)
  • Melanoselinum (1)
  • Myrrhidendron (3)
  • Neonelsonia (3)
  • Niphogeton (1)
  • Oenanthe (49)
  • Opopanax (1)
  • Oreonana (2)
  • Osmorhiza (110)
  • Oxypolis (26)
  • Pastinaca (2)
  • Perideridia (194)
  • Petroselinum (3)
  • Physocaulis (2)
  • Pimpinella (2)
  • Podistera (9)
  • Polytaenia (5)
  • Pteryxia (1)
  • Ridolfia (1)
  • Sanicula (340)
  • Scandix (42)
  • Seseli (2)
  • Sison (1)
  • Sium (12)
  • Smyrnium (1)
  • Spananthe (3)
  • Spermolepis (3)
  • Sphenosciadium (1)
  • Tauschia (36)
  • Thapsia (2)
  • Thaspium (2)
  • Tordylium (3)
  • Torilis (108)
  • Trachymene (7)
  • Yabea (37)
  • Zizia (2)