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University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH)

Specialty: Worldwide, especially temperate North America and the Great Lakes region. Specific strengths include marine algae of eastern North America, West Indies, Alaska, and Pacific Islands; bryophytes of tropical America; Agaricaceae and Hymenogastraceae of western North America; vascular plants of Mexico, Iran, Himalayas, southwestern Pacific Region, and southeastern Asia; Cyperaceae, Malpighiaceae, and Myrtaceae of the New World.
Date Founded: 1837.

Collection Manager: Brad Ruhfel, umherb-data@umich.edu
Collection Manager: Aly Baumgartner, umherb-data@umich.edu
Technical Support: Garth Holman, gholman@umich.edu
Technical Support: Matthew Cruz, mcruz@umich.edu
Homepage: http://herbarium.lsa.umich.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 October 2024
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://midwestherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/MICH_DwC-A.zip
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Address:
University of Michigan Herbarium
3600 Varsity Drive
Ann Arbor, MI   48108-2228
U.S.A.
734-615-6200
Collection Statistics
  • 586,441 specimen records
  • 181,001 (31%) georeferenced
  • 489,968 (84%) with images (675,615 total images)
  • 10 GenBank genetic references
  • 549,439 (94%) identified to species
  • 368 families
  • 5,565 genera
  • 43,254 species
  • 47,778 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics