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
  • 144,530 specimen records
  • 117,567 (81%) georeferenced
  • 83,698 (58%) with images (83,861 total images)
  • 137,701 (95%) identified to species
  • 364 families
  • 3,256 genera
  • 13,243 species
  • 16,058 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Alyxia (1)
  • Ampelamus (1)
  • Amsonia (9)
  • Apocynum (121)
  • Araujia (2)
  • Asclepias (287)
  • Aspidosperma (7)
  • Beaumontia (1)
  • Blepharodon (1)
  • Carissa (1)
  • Catharanthus (1)
  • Ceropegia (3)
  • Cycladenia (11)
  • Cynanchum (4)
  • Dischidia (1)
  • Ditassa (1)
  • Echites (1)
  • Fischeria (2)
  • Forsteronia (1)
  • Funastrum (22)
  • Glossonema (1)
  • Gonolobus (9)
  • Hancornia (1)
  • Haplophyton (1)
  • Himatanthus (2)
  • Hoya (1)
  • Leptadenia (4)
  • Macroscepis (1)
  • Mandevilla (15)
  • Marsdenia (1)
  • Matelea (16)
  • Mesechites (2)
  • Metastelma (4)
  • Mortoniella (4)
  • Nerium (12)
  • Neuburgia (1)
  • Oxypetalum (5)
  • Peschiera (1)
  • Prestonia (2)
  • Rauvolfia (2)
  • Sarcostemma (1)
  • Secamone (1)
  • Stemmadenia (5)
  • Tabernaemontana (9)
  • Thevetia (4)
  • Trachelospermum (1)
  • Vallesia (2)
  • Vinca (35)