DAV - University of California, Davis Center for Plant Diversity - Vascular Plants (DAV-Vascular Plants)

University of California, Davis herbarium vascular plant collections are worldwide, with emphasis on California, North America, and neotropics (especially Ecuador and Baja California).

Our collections are especially strong in the following taxa: Quercus, Fagaceae, and Arctostaphylos, Ericaceae of New World; Euphorbiaceae worldwide; Poaceae of North America; Streptanthaus (Brassicaceae); Clarkia (Onagraceae); Lycianthes and Lycopersicon (Solanaceae); Stephanomeria and tarweed genera (Asteraceae); Navarretia (Polemoniaceae); Allium (Alliaceae); Trifolium (Fabaceae);Prunus (Rosaceae).

Our regional strengths are: 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.

Estimated 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
  • 144,650 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
  • Bensoniella (2)
  • Bolandra (5)
  • Boykinia (32)
  • Chrysosplenium (2)
  • Darmera (13)
  • Deutzia (2)
  • Dichroa (3)
  • Elmera (1)
  • Escallonia (4)
  • Francoa (1)
  • Hemieva (1)
  • Heuchera (81)
  • Hydrangea (14)
  • Itea (1)
  • Jepsonia (3)
  • Lithophragma (138)
  • Micranthes (182)
  • Mitella (5)
  • Mitellastra (1)
  • Ozomelis (2)
  • Pectiantia (35)
  • Phyllonoma (2)
  • Saxifraga (51)
  • Saxifragopsis (1)
  • Telesonix (5)
  • Tellima (15)
  • Tiarella (13)
  • Tolmiea (5)