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: 4 March 2024
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
  • 568,115 specimen records
  • 179,924 (32%) georeferenced
  • 480,069 (85%) with images (665,002 total images)
  • 10 GenBank genetic references
  • 534,972 (94%) identified to species
  • 362 families
  • 5,446 genera
  • 41,710 species
  • 46,173 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Agave (688)
  • Androstephium (2)
  • Anthericum (13)
  • Asparagus (81)
  • Beaucarnea (38)
  • Beschorneria (17)
  • Bessera (73)
  • Bloomeria (1)
  • Bravoa (2)
  • Brodiaea (6)
  • Camassia (10)
  • Chlorophytum (11)
  • Convallaria (37)
  • Cordyline (4)
  • Dasylirion (77)
  • Dichelostemma (5)
  • Dipcadi (2)
  • Disporopsis (2)
  • Dracaena (36)
  • Echeandia (220)
  • Furcraea (43)
  • Hagenbachia (1)
  • Hesperaloe (4)
  • Hesperocallis (2)
  • Hyacinthus (8)
  • Leucocrinum (1)
  • Maianthemum (599)
  • Manfreda (73)
  • Milla (82)
  • Muscari (32)
  • Nolina (64)
  • Ophiopogon (47)
  • Ornithogalum (32)
  • Peliosanthes (3)
  • Pleomele (2)
  • Polianthes (60)
  • Polygonatum (285)
  • Prochnyanthes (29)
  • Puschkinia (4)
  • Sansevieria (4)
  • Scilla (13)
  • Smilacina (12)
  • Triteleiopsis (2)
  • Tupistra (1)
  • Urginea (1)
  • Yucca (146)