YM - Yosemite National Park (YM)

Yosemite National Park Herbarium is a significant regional collection, with 8,000 specimens, dating from the early part of the 20th century to the present with the bulk of specimens dating from the 1920s to the 1960s. This is an actively growing herbarium, with over 3,000 vascular plant specimens added in the last ten years. The herbarium is a valuable component of the park's museum collections and is an essential tool for resource management: fire management, exotics programs, and vegetation management. It is also a valuable source of information to the scientific community about Yosemite's complex flora. Access to the collections is granted to researchers by advance appointment.
Curator of Collections: Greg Cox, Greg_Cox@nps.gov
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 April 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 9,288 specimen records
  • 6,081 (65%) georeferenced
  • 9,074 (98%) identified to species
  • 117 families
  • 543 genera
  • 1,668 species
  • 1,913 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics