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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 - Virginia
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Accomack (11)
  • Albemarle (48)
  • Alexandria, City of (23)
  • Alleghany (15)
  • Amelia (8)
  • Amherst (2)
  • Appomattox (2)
  • Arlington (53)
  • Arlington or Fairfax (1)
  • Augusta (35)
  • Bath (23)
  • Bedford (35)
  • Bland (9)
  • Botetourt (24)
  • Brunswick (10)
  • Buchanan (9)
  • Buckingham (4)
  • Campbell (4)
  • Caroline (19)
  • Carroll (13)
  • Charles City (2)
  • Charlotte (7)
  • Chesterfield (6)
  • City of Alexandria (1)
  • Clarke (4)
  • Clarke or Loudoun (1)
  • Craig (30)
  • Culpeper (1)
  • Cumberland (14)
  • Dickenson (3)
  • Dinwiddie (36)
  • Essex (4)
  • Fairfax (132)
  • Farifax (1)
  • Fauquier (34)
  • Floyd (12)
  • Fluvanna (8)
  • Franklin (16)
  • Franklin, City of (1)
  • Frederick (6)
  • Giles (416)
  • Gloucester (16)
  • Grayson (58)
  • Grayson or Smyth (18)
  • Grayson or Smyth or Washington (7)
  • Greene (5)
  • Greensville (15)
  • Halifax (9)
  • Hampton, City of (1)
  • Hanover (3)
  • Henrico (1)
  • Henry (5)
  • Hertford (1)
  • Highland (82)
  • Isle of Wight (16)
  • James City (51)
  • King George (4)
  • King William (1)
  • Lee (8)
  • Loudoun (12)
  • Louisa (2)
  • Lunenburg (2)
  • Madison (14)
  • Madison or Page (1)
  • Mathews (1)
  • Mecklenburg (8)
  • Middlesex (10)
  • Montgomery (90)
  • Nelson (8)
  • New Kent (4)
  • Newport News, City of (1)
  • Norfolk (19)
  • Norfolk City (8)
  • Northampton (10)
  • Page (32)
  • Patrick (35)
  • Pittsylvania (10)
  • Portsmouth, City of (1)
  • Powhatan (4)
  • Prince Edward (4)
  • Prince George (19)
  • Prince William (20)
  • Princess Anne (17)
  • Pulaski (7)
  • Rappahannock (6)
  • Rappahannock or Warren (1)
  • Richmond (2)
  • Roanoke (4)
  • Rockbridge (14)
  • Rockingham (14)
  • Russell (20)
  • Scott (14)
  • Shenandoah (18)
  • Smyth (35)
  • South Hampton (1)
  • Southampton (25)
  • Spotsylvania (3)
  • Stafford (44)
  • Suffolk (6)
  • Suffolk, City of (19)
  • Surry (15)
  • Sussex (29)
  • Tazewell (11)
  • Virginia Beach, City of (12)
  • Warren (4)
  • Warwick (1)
  • Washington (11)
  • Westmoreland (8)
  • Williamsburg, City of (2)
  • Wise (33)
  • Wythe (33)
  • York (12)
  • no data (97)