University of California at 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.

Director: Dan Potter, dpotter@ucdavis.edu
Curator: Alison Colwell, aelcolwell@ucdavis.edu
Collections Manager: Teri Barry, tcbarry@ucdavis.edu
Emeritus Curator: Ellen Dean, eadean@ucdavis.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 18 May 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/data_use_terms.html
Address:
Center for Plant Diversity; Department of Plant Sciences MS#7
University of California
1 Shields Ave.
Davis, CA   95616-8780
U.S.A.
(530) 752-1091
Collection Statistics
  • 141,736 specimen records
  • 115,648 (82%) georeferenced
  • 79,727 (56%) with images (80,045 total images)
  • 133,898 (94%) identified to species
  • 357 families
  • 3,102 genera
  • 12,342 species
  • 14,922 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Blackstonia (2)
  • Centaurium (48)
  • Chelonanthus (7)
  • Chironia (1)
  • Cicendia (20)
  • Comastoma (5)
  • Eustoma (6)
  • Fagraea (1)
  • Frasera (42)
  • Gentiana (82)
  • Gentianella (15)
  • Gentianopsis (39)
  • Halenia (4)
  • Irlbachia (1)
  • Lisianthus (1)
  • Lomatogonium (1)
  • Macrocarpaea (10)
  • Nymphoides (1)
  • Sabatia (3)
  • Sagina (13)
  • Swertia (8)
  • Zeltnera (103)