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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)

Over 99000 specimens in collection, with emphasis on plants of the Southwest and northern Mexico, Cactaceae and Agavaceae.

Contacts: Andrew Salywon, asalywon@dbg.org
Curator Emerita: Wendy C. Hodgson, whodgson@dbg.org
Collections Manager: Sarah Hunkins , shunkins@dbg.org
Homepage: http://www.dbg.org/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: edb9860c-c481-4d19-88cc-224a536ebcd4
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/content/dwca/DES_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Address:
Herbarium - Research, Conservation & Collections Department
Desert Botanical Garden
1201 North Galvin Parkway
Phoenix, Arizona   85008
480-481-8107
Collection Statistics
  • 98,249 specimen records
  • 96,916 (99%) georeferenced
  • 83,034 (85%) with images (84,136 total images)
  • 94,425 (96%) identified to species
  • 336 families
  • 2,673 genera
  • 11,964 species
  • 14,948 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Alyssum (10)
  • Arabidopsis (4)
  • Arabis (95)
  • Athysanus (8)
  • Barbarea (17)
  • Berteroa (5)
  • Boechera (84)
  • Brassica (171)
  • Braya (1)
  • Cakile (2)
  • Camelina (5)
  • Capsella (35)
  • Cardamine (24)
  • Cardaria (1)
  • Caulanthus (130)
  • Chorispora (63)
  • Cochlearia (1)
  • Conringia (1)
  • Coronopus (2)
  • Cusickiella (1)
  • Dentaria (8)
  • Descurainia (311)
  • Dimorphocarpa (66)
  • Diplotaxis (4)
  • Dithyrea (32)
  • Draba (151)
  • Dryopetalon (21)
  • Enarthrocarpus (1)
  • Eruca (33)
  • Erucaria (1)
  • Erucastrum (1)
  • Erysimum (128)
  • Euclidium (1)
  • Farsetia (1)
  • Guillenia (9)
  • Halimolobos (7)
  • Hesperidanthus (58)
  • Hesperis (2)
  • Hirschfeldia (11)
  • Hutchinsia (4)
  • Iodanthus (1)
  • Isatis (1)
  • Lepidium (547)
  • Lesquerella (125)
  • Lobularia (4)
  • Lyrocarpa (23)
  • Malcolmia (17)
  • Mancoa (1)
  • Matthiola (22)
  • Morettia (1)
  • Moricandia (1)
  • Mostacillastrum (2)
  • Nasturtium (57)
  • Nerisyrenia (20)
  • Noccaea (34)
  • Onuris (1)
  • Ornithocarpa (1)
  • Pennellia (26)
  • Phoenicaulis (1)
  • Physaria (223)
  • Planodes (2)
  • Polyctenium (3)
  • Raphanus (6)
  • Rapistrum (4)
  • Rorippa (41)
  • Schoenocrambe (4)
  • Selenia (2)
  • Sibara (4)
  • Sinapis (12)
  • Sisymbrium (203)
  • Stanleya (70)
  • Streptanthella (58)
  • Streptanthus (65)
  • Strigosella (6)
  • Stroganowia (1)
  • Synthlipsis (1)
  • Thelypodiopsis (11)
  • Thelypodium (77)
  • Thlaspi (14)
  • Thysanocarpus (110)
  • Tomostima (1)
  • Transberingia (1)
  • Tropidocarpum (2)
  • Turritis (11)
  • Zilla (1)