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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 - Kansas
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Allen (1)
  • Anderson (8)
  • Atchison (3)
  • Barber (20)
  • Barton (10)
  • Bourbon (3)
  • Brown (3)
  • Butler (11)
  • Chase (7)
  • Chautauqua (7)
  • Cherokee (29)
  • Cheyenne (1)
  • Clark (1)
  • Cloud (45)
  • Coffey (9)
  • Comanche (7)
  • Crawford (4)
  • Decatur (2)
  • Dickinson (3)
  • Doniphan (3)
  • Douglas (72)
  • Ellis (40)
  • Ellsworth (3)
  • Finney (8)
  • Franklin (6)
  • Geary (6)
  • Gray (3)
  • Greenwood (1)
  • Hamilton (2)
  • Harper (1)
  • Harvey (1)
  • Jefferson (2)
  • Jewell (1)
  • Johnson (26)
  • Kearny (1)
  • Kingman (6)
  • Kiowa (14)
  • Labette (4)
  • Leavenworth (14)
  • Linn (29)
  • Logan (1)
  • Lyon (12)
  • Marion (3)
  • McPherson (3)
  • Meade (1)
  • Miami (32)
  • Montgomery (11)
  • Morton (1)
  • Neosho (8)
  • Ottawa (1)
  • Peoria (1)
  • Pottawatmie or Riley (2)
  • Pottawatomie (15)
  • Pottawatomie or Riley (1)
  • Reno (8)
  • Rice (2)
  • Riley (222)
  • Rooks (4)
  • Russell (1)
  • Saline (6)
  • Sedgwick (54)
  • Seward (2)
  • Shawnee (3)
  • Sherman (2)
  • Smith (1)
  • Stafford (15)
  • Sumner (4)
  • Thomas (4)
  • Trego (1)
  • Wabaunsee (4)
  • Wallace (5)
  • Wichita (1)
  • Wilson (5)
  • Woodson (4)
  • Wyandotte (13)
  • no data (19)