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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 - Texas
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Anderson (51)
  • Andrews (25)
  • Angelina (41)
  • Aransas (85)
  • Archer (8)
  • Armstrong (20)
  • Atascosa (11)
  • Austin (26)
  • Bailey (9)
  • Bandera (19)
  • Bastrop (57)
  • Baylor (2)
  • Beaumont (2)
  • Bee (9)
  • Bell (31)
  • Bexar (175)
  • Bexar, Comal, or Medina (2)
  • Blanco (17)
  • Borden (10)
  • Bosque (3)
  • Bowie (27)
  • Brazoria (84)
  • Brazos (239)
  • Brazos or Grimes (1)
  • Brewster (809)
  • Brewster or Pecos (2)
  • Brewster or Reagan (1)
  • Briscoe (6)
  • Brooks (55)
  • Brown (5)
  • Brownsville (1)
  • Burleson (19)
  • Burnet (55)
  • Caldwell (10)
  • Calhoun (33)
  • Callahan (3)
  • Cameron (269)
  • Camp (1)
  • Cass (19)
  • Chambers (39)
  • Cherokee (15)
  • Childress (15)
  • Clay (10)
  • Coke (2)
  • Coleman (3)
  • Collin (7)
  • Collingsworth (10)
  • Colorado (15)
  • Comal (17)
  • Comal or Guadalupe (1)
  • Comanche (1)
  • Concho (2)
  • Cooke (24)
  • Coryell (14)
  • Cottle (3)
  • Crane (2)
  • Crockett (15)
  • Crosby (37)
  • Culberson (177)
  • Dallam (3)
  • Dallas (345)
  • Dawson (1)
  • De Witt (4)
  • DeWitt (14)
  • Deaf Smith (6)
  • Delta (10)
  • Denton (100)
  • Dickens (2)
  • Dimmit (18)
  • Donley (5)
  • Duval (24)
  • Duval or Jim Wells (14)
  • Eastland (5)
  • Ector (2)
  • Edwards (55)
  • El Paso (98)
  • Ellis (24)
  • Erath (5)
  • Falls (1)
  • Fannin (14)
  • Fayette (4)
  • Fisher (3)
  • Floyd (4)
  • Foard (1)
  • Fort Bend (9)
  • Franklin (11)
  • Freestone (28)
  • Frio (7)
  • Gaines (2)
  • Galveston (36)
  • Garza (10)
  • Gillespie (28)
  • Gillespie or Llano (2)
  • Glasscock (1)
  • Goliad (11)
  • Gonzales (69)
  • Gray (1)
  • Grayson (22)
  • Gregg (7)
  • Grimes (44)
  • Guadalupe (5)
  • Hale (6)
  • Hall (3)
  • Hamilton (10)
  • Hansford (1)
  • Hardeman (20)
  • Hardin (116)
  • Harris (135)
  • Harris or Liberty (1)
  • Harris, Fort Bend, or Montgomery (5)
  • Harris-Liberty (1)
  • Harrison (30)
  • Hays (32)
  • Hemphill (61)
  • Henderson (34)
  • Hidalgo (205)
  • Hildalgo (2)
  • Hill (12)
  • Hood (20)
  • Hopkins (10)
  • Houston (51)
  • Howard (8)
  • Hudspeth (50)
  • Hunt (1)
  • Hutchinson (5)
  • Jack (4)
  • Jackson (11)
  • Jasper (108)
  • Jeff Davis (222)
  • Jefferson (98)
  • Jim Hogg (10)
  • Jim Wells (5)
  • Johnson (6)
  • Jones (1)
  • Karnes (3)
  • Kaufman (58)
  • Kendall (14)
  • Kenedy (79)
  • Kerr (148)
  • Kimble (21)
  • Kinney (22)
  • Kinney or Val Verde (1)
  • Kleberg (67)
  • Knox (2)
  • La Salle (5)
  • Lamar (17)
  • Lamb (1)
  • Lampasas (4)
  • Lavaca (10)
  • Lee (8)
  • Leon (38)
  • Liberty (34)
  • Limestone (2)
  • Lipscomb (20)
  • Live Oak (7)
  • Llano (48)
  • Lubbock (4)
  • Madison (11)
  • Marion (12)
  • Mason (6)
  • Matagorda (18)
  • Maverick (14)
  • McCulloch (6)
  • McCullough (4)
  • McLennan (2)
  • McMullen (1)
  • Medina (19)
  • Menard (5)
  • Michael J. Oldham (4)
  • Midland (5)
  • Milam (11)
  • Mills (1)
  • Mitchell (4)
  • Montague (17)
  • Montgomery (34)
  • Moore (10)
  • Morris (16)
  • Motley (1)
  • Nacogdoches (58)
  • Navarro (9)
  • Neuces (3)
  • Newton (59)
  • Nolan (7)
  • Nueces (75)
  • Ochiltree (24)
  • Oldham (13)
  • Orange (39)
  • Palo Pinto (40)
  • Panola (22)
  • Parker (13)
  • Parmer (6)
  • Pecos (105)
  • Pecos or Reeves (1)
  • Polk (22)
  • Potter (39)
  • Presidio (76)
  • Rains (2)
  • Randall (64)
  • Reagan (4)
  • Real (16)
  • Red River (39)
  • Reeves (42)
  • Refugio (9)
  • Riley (1)
  • Roberts (30)
  • Robertson (32)
  • Rockwall (26)
  • Runnels (3)
  • Rusk (8)
  • Sabine (62)
  • San Augustine (25)
  • San Jacinto (23)
  • San Patricio (95)
  • San Saba (9)
  • Schleicher (7)
  • Scurry (1)
  • Shackelford (2)
  • Shelby (20)
  • Sherman (1)
  • Smith (32)
  • Somervell (6)
  • Starr (86)
  • Stephens (2)
  • Sterling (3)
  • Sutton (14)
  • Swisher (7)
  • Tarrant (188)
  • Taylor (92)
  • Terrell (130)
  • Terry (1)
  • Titus (14)
  • Tom Green (14)
  • Travis (183)
  • Trinity (9)
  • Tyler (55)
  • Upshur (12)
  • Upton (5)
  • Uvalde (56)
  • Val Verde (129)
  • Van Zandt (18)
  • Victoria (38)
  • Walker (29)
  • Waller (21)
  • Ward (24)
  • Ward or Winkler (1)
  • Washington (11)
  • Webb (47)
  • Wharton (5)
  • Wheeler (13)
  • Wichita (48)
  • Wilbarger (32)
  • Willacy (27)
  • Williamson (16)
  • Wilson (14)
  • Winkler (14)
  • Wise (33)
  • Wood (90)
  • Young (3)
  • Zapata (47)
  • Zavala (4)
  • no data (310)