University of California at Davis Herbarium (DAV)

University of California, Davis herbarium collections are worldwide, with emphasis on California, North America, and neotropics (especially Ecuador and Baja California); Quercus, Fagaceae, and Arctostaphylos, Ericaceae of New World; Euphorbiaceae; Poaceae; Clarkia (Onagraceae); Lycianthes and Lycopersicon (Solanaceae); Stephanomeria and tarweed genera (Asteraceae); Navarretia (Polemoniaceae); Allium (Alliaceae); Trifolium (Fabaceae);Prunus (Rosaceae); Central Valley of California vernal pool species; weedy and poisonous species of California and Mediterranean-climate regions; range plants of California; alpine flora of western North America. Size of collection: 320,000 specimens, 50% from California.

Director: Dan Potter, dpotter@ucdavis.edu
Curator: Alison Colwell, aelcolwell@ucdavis.edu
Collections Manager: Teri Barry, tcbarry@ucdavis.edu
Emeritus Curator: Ellen Dean, eadean@ucdavis.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 18 May 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/data_use_terms.html
Address:
Center for Plant Diversity; Department of Plant Sciences MS#7
University of California
1 Shields Ave.
Davis, CA   95616-8780
U.S.A.
(530) 752-1091
Collection Statistics
  • 141,736 specimen records
  • 115,648 (82%) georeferenced
  • 79,727 (56%) with images (80,045 total images)
  • 133,898 (94%) identified to species
  • 357 families
  • 3,102 genera
  • 12,342 species
  • 14,922 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Adelinia (58)
  • Alkanna (2)
  • Amsinckia (382)
  • Anchusa (5)
  • Andersonglossum (18)
  • Asperugo (2)
  • Borago (9)
  • Cerinthe (2)
  • Cordia (47)
  • Cryptantha (558)
  • Cynoglossum (11)
  • Draperia (1)
  • Echium (20)
  • Ehretia (1)
  • Ellisia (1)
  • Emmenanthe (10)
  • Eremocarya (24)
  • Eriodictyon (30)
  • Eritrichium (5)
  • Eucrypta (8)
  • Greeneocharis (31)
  • Hackelia (120)
  • Heliotropium (143)
  • Hesperochiron (2)
  • Howellanthus (2)
  • Hydrophyllum (22)
  • Johnstonella (37)
  • Lappula (8)
  • Lasiarrhenum (1)
  • Lithodora (1)
  • Lithospermum (18)
  • Macromeria (1)
  • Mertensia (28)
  • Myosotis (45)
  • Nama (64)
  • Nemophila (18)
  • Onosma (1)
  • Oreocarya (56)
  • Pectocarya (94)
  • Phacelia (230)
  • Pholisma (2)
  • Pholistoma (2)
  • Plagiobothrys (879)
  • Pulmonaria (1)
  • Romanzoffia (6)
  • Simpsonanthus (4)
  • Sonnea (3)
  • Symphytum (5)
  • Tiquilia (45)
  • Tournefortia (37)
  • Tricardia (1)
  • Wigandia (3)