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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: 29 September 2023
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
  • 560,196 specimen records
  • 178,179 (32%) georeferenced
  • 471,516 (84%) with images (654,673 total images)
  • 3 GenBank genetic references
  • 528,540 (94%) identified to species
  • 359 families
  • 5,395 genera
  • 41,254 species
  • 45,673 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Colorado
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Adams (16)
  • Alamosa (22)
  • Arapahoe (10)
  • Archuleta (15)
  • Baca (27)
  • Boulder (101)
  • Broomfield (3)
  • Chaffee (63)
  • Chaffee or Saguache (1)
  • Cheyenne (2)
  • Clear Creek (254)
  • Clear Creek or Gilpin (7)
  • Clear Creek or Grand (9)
  • Clear Creek or Summit (14)
  • Conejos (1)
  • Costilla (13)
  • Costilla or Huerfano (4)
  • Craffee (1)
  • Creek or Summit (1)
  • Crowley (1)
  • Custer (131)
  • Delta (79)
  • Denver (96)
  • Denver or El Paso (1)
  • Douglas (36)
  • Eagle (23)
  • El Paso (466)
  • Elbert (1)
  • Fremont (62)
  • Garfield (62)
  • Gilpin (68)
  • Grand (74)
  • Grand or Larimer (4)
  • Gunnison (109)
  • Hinsdale (18)
  • Huerfano (14)
  • Jackson (23)
  • Jackson or Larimer (2)
  • Jefferson (165)
  • Kiowa (7)
  • Kit Carson (5)
  • La Plata (55)
  • La Plata or Montezuma (1)
  • Lake (131)
  • Lake or Park (1)
  • Larimer (205)
  • Las Animas (307)
  • Lincoln (11)
  • Logan (2)
  • Mesa (12)
  • Mineral (15)
  • Mineral or Archuleta (1)
  • Moffat (10)
  • Montezuma (39)
  • Montrose (4)
  • Morgan (2)
  • Otero (2)
  • Ouray (54)
  • Park (130)
  • Park or Summit (1)
  • Pitkin (21)
  • Prowers (2)
  • Pueblo (22)
  • Rio Blanco (9)
  • Rio Grande (4)
  • Routt (13)
  • Saguache (28)
  • San Juan (10)
  • San Miguel (7)
  • Sedgwick (10)
  • Summit (70)
  • Teller (52)
  • Tennison (1)
  • Weld (18)
  • Yuma (3)
  • no data (117)