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
  • Achyronychia (14)
  • Agrostemma (5)
  • Arenaria (26)
  • Atocion (4)
  • Cardionema (11)
  • Cerastium (166)
  • Cherleria (8)
  • Dianthus (26)
  • Drymaria (9)
  • Eremogone (100)
  • Gypsophila (18)
  • Herniaria (24)
  • Holosteum (9)
  • Loeflingia (5)
  • Lychnis (12)
  • Minuartia (10)
  • Moehringia (11)
  • Moenchia (4)
  • Paronychia (12)
  • Petrorhagia (58)
  • Pollichia (2)
  • Polycarpon (31)
  • Pseudostellaria (1)
  • Sabulina (176)
  • Sagina (70)
  • Saponaria (26)
  • Scleranthus (37)
  • Scopulophila (1)
  • Silene (455)
  • Spergula (43)
  • Spergularia (191)
  • Stellaria (219)
  • Velezia (2)