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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: 2 April 2024
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
  • 569,295 specimen records
  • 179,938 (32%) georeferenced
  • 481,039 (84%) with images (666,028 total images)
  • 10 GenBank genetic references
  • 535,595 (94%) identified to species
  • 363 families
  • 5,458 genera
  • 41,868 species
  • 46,335 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acaena (43)
  • Adenostoma (7)
  • Agrimonia (254)
  • Alchemilla (265)
  • Amelanchier (717)
  • Aphanes (1)
  • Aronia (237)
  • Aruncus (12)
  • Cerasus (2)
  • Cercocarpus (119)
  • Chaenomeles (6)
  • Chamaerhodos (6)
  • Comarum (102)
  • Cotoneaster (56)
  • Cowania (49)
  • Crataegus (1030)
  • Cydonia (4)
  • Dalibarda (3)
  • Dasiphora (147)
  • Docynia (1)
  • Dryas (5)
  • Drymocallis (84)
  • Duchesnea (13)
  • Eriobotrya (12)
  • Exochorda (1)
  • Fallugia (14)
  • Filipendula (24)
  • Fragaria (296)
  • Geum (571)
  • Gillenia (9)
  • Hesperomeles (6)
  • Heteromeles (2)
  • Holodiscus (53)
  • Horkelia (7)
  • Ivesia (5)
  • Kelseya (1)
  • Kerria (1)
  • Lindleya (39)
  • Luetkea (1)
  • Malacomeles (69)
  • Malus (170)
  • Margyricarpus (1)
  • Micromeles (6)
  • Neillia (4)
  • Neviusia (1)
  • Osteomeles (2)
  • Photinia (89)
  • Physocarpus (138)
  • Potentilla (1170)
  • Poterium (16)
  • Prinsepia (7)
  • Prunus (1388)
  • Purshia (1)
  • Pygeum (1)
  • Pyracantha (4)
  • Pyrus (77)
  • Rhaphiolepis (2)
  • Rhodotypos (21)
  • Rosa (1056)
  • Rubus (2510)
  • Sanguisorba (15)
  • Sibbaldia (17)
  • Sibbaldiopsis (85)
  • Sorbaria (31)
  • Sorbus (126)
  • Spiraea (365)
  • Stephanandra (1)
  • Vauquelinia (42)
  • Waldsteinia (5)
  • Xerospiraea (2)