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PUA - Pacific Union College Herbarium (PUA)

Specialty: Vascular plants of coastal regions from San Francisco Bay to southern Oregon; Napa County, California; Klamath Mountains; Arizona; Nevada.
Date Founded: 1967

Director and Curator: Aimee Wyrick, awyrick@puc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3818ca8b-b6a4-11e8-b408-001a64db2964
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://cch2.org/portal/content/dwca/PUA_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Collection Statistics
  • 75,941 specimen records
  • 70,204 (92%) georeferenced
  • 13,922 (18%) with images (13,976 total images)
  • 68,801 (91%) identified to species
  • 226 families
  • 1,362 genera
  • 5,688 species
  • 7,085 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acacia (14)
  • Albizia (7)
  • Amorpha (8)
  • Astragalus (298)
  • Bauhinia (1)
  • Caesalpinia (2)
  • Calliandra (6)
  • Canavalia (1)
  • Cassia (9)
  • Cercidium (3)
  • Cercis (25)
  • Cladrastis (1)
  • Cologania (1)
  • Crotalaria (1)
  • Cytisus (27)
  • Dalea (39)
  • Desmanthus (2)
  • Desmodium (9)
  • Erythrina (2)
  • Eysenhardtia (1)
  • Gleditsia (2)
  • Glycyrrhiza (5)
  • Hedysarum (1)
  • Hoffmanseggia (1)
  • Indigofera (3)
  • Kuhnia (2)
  • Laburnum (1)
  • Lathyrus (229)
  • Lespedeza (8)
  • Leucaena (2)
  • Lotus (478)
  • Lupinus (630)
  • Marina (1)
  • Medicago (56)
  • Melilotus (45)
  • Mimosa (7)
  • Olneya (2)
  • Oxytropis (11)
  • Parkinsonia (1)
  • Petalostemum (1)
  • Peteria (1)
  • Phaseolus (6)
  • Pickeringia (28)
  • Prosopis (7)
  • Psoralea (45)
  • Psorothamnus (8)
  • Pueraria (4)
  • Rhynchosia (3)
  • Robinia (11)
  • Spartium (10)
  • Strophostyles (1)
  • Tephrosia (2)
  • Thermopsis (39)
  • Trifolium (606)
  • Ulex (3)
  • Vicia (197)
  • Wisteria (9)
  • Zornia (1)