PGM - Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History (PGM)

The herbarium of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History contains approximately 7,500 specimens which are concerned principally with the vascular plants of Monterey County, California and the adjacent inner coast range mountains which border it, including collections from San Benito, western Fresno, and portions of Kings County. Ninety percent of the collections are from Monterey County, California. The herbarium includes the Monterey County collections of Beatrice F. Howitt, duplicates of specimens sent to CAS and identified by J.T. Howell resulting in: The Vascular Plants of Monterey County, California by Beatrice F. Howeitt and John Thomas Howell, The Wasmann Journal of Biology, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 1964 and Supplement published by The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History Assoc, July, 1973.

Herbarium contact: Paul Vandecarr (Vandecarr@pgmuseum.org)

Contacts: Nate King, king@pgmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0625702b-27ed-4b22-a65a-f840610bb287
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 7,806 specimen records
  • 3,176 (41%) georeferenced
  • 99 (1%) with images (106 total images)
  • 7,678 (98%) identified to species
  • 164 families
  • 679 genera
  • 1,501 species
  • 1,981 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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