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
  • Aa (1)
  • Ada (3)
  • Altensteinia (1)
  • Anacamptis (3)
  • Bletia (1)
  • Brachionidium (1)
  • Brassia (1)
  • Calanthe (3)
  • Calopogon (1)
  • Calypso (10)
  • Cephalanthera (9)
  • Ceratostylis (1)
  • Chloraea (1)
  • Chondroscaphe (2)
  • Coeloglossum (1)
  • Corallorhiza (44)
  • Cranichis (2)
  • Cyclopogon (4)
  • Cymbidium (1)
  • Cypripedium (17)
  • Dactylorhiza (1)
  • Dichaea (9)
  • Dipodium (1)
  • Elleanthus (10)
  • Epidendrum (40)
  • Epipactis (42)
  • Erythrodes (6)
  • Goodyera (17)
  • Govenia (2)
  • Gymnadenia (1)
  • Habenaria (10)
  • Isochilus (1)
  • Lepanthes (4)
  • Listera (14)
  • Lockhartia (3)
  • Malaxis (1)
  • Masdevallia (2)
  • Maxillaria (8)
  • Myoxanthus (4)
  • Nigritella (1)
  • Oberonia (2)
  • Odontoglossum (3)
  • Oncidium (29)
  • Ophrys (2)
  • Orchis (1)
  • Phragmipedium (1)
  • Piperia (38)
  • Platanthera (124)
  • Pleurothallis (21)
  • Polystachya (1)
  • Ponthieva (1)
  • Porphyrostachys (1)
  • Porroglossum (2)
  • Prosthechea (1)
  • Pseudorchis (1)
  • Psygmorchis (1)
  • Pterostylis (1)
  • Rhynchostele (2)
  • Rodriguezia (3)
  • Scaphyglottis (1)
  • Sobralia (8)
  • Spathoglottis (1)
  • Spiranthes (39)
  • Stelis (15)
  • Trichopilia (1)
  • Vanilla (1)
  • Xylobium (6)
  • Zeuxine (1)