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
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 September 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
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 - Utah
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Beaver (15)
  • Box Elder (4)
  • Box Elder or Cache (1)
  • Cache (86)
  • Cache or Rich (2)
  • Carbon (8)
  • Daggett (60)
  • Davis (7)
  • Duchesne (74)
  • Emery (17)
  • Garfield (85)
  • Garfield or San Juan (2)
  • Grand (48)
  • Grand or San Juan (1)
  • Iron (25)
  • Juab (5)
  • Kane (20)
  • Milford (1)
  • Millard (8)
  • Morgan (1)
  • Orleans (1)
  • Piute (11)
  • Salt Lake (172)
  • Salt Lake or Summit (1)
  • San Juan (61)
  • Sanpete (6)
  • Sevier (8)
  • Summit (110)
  • Tooele (11)
  • Uintah (44)
  • Utah (48)
  • Wasatch (8)
  • Washington (67)
  • Wayne (17)
  • Weber (16)
  • no data (37)