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
  • Acaena (81)
  • Adenostoma (92)
  • Afrolicania (1)
  • Agrimonia (5)
  • Alchemilla (5)
  • Amelanchier (105)
  • Amygdalus (1)
  • Aphanes (17)
  • Aruncus (7)
  • Cercocarpus (193)
  • Chaenomeles (5)
  • Chamaebatia (54)
  • Chamaebatiaria (14)
  • Chamaerhodos (1)
  • Coleogyne (11)
  • Comarum (9)
  • Cotoneaster (9)
  • Crataegus (14)
  • Cydonia (1)
  • Dasiphora (18)
  • Dendriopoterium (2)
  • Dryas (18)
  • Drymocallis (146)
  • Duchesnea (8)
  • Eriobotrya (1)
  • Exochorda (1)
  • Fallugia (9)
  • Fragaria (89)
  • Geum (57)
  • Gillenia (4)
  • Hesperomeles (2)
  • Heteromeles (54)
  • Hirtella (2)
  • Holodiscus (142)
  • Horkelia (128)
  • Horkeliella (2)
  • Ivesia (80)
  • Kageneckia (1)
  • Kelseya (2)
  • Kerria (1)
  • Luetkea (11)
  • Lyonothamnus (12)
  • Malus (9)
  • Neviusia (12)
  • Oemleria (22)
  • Parinari (1)
  • Peraphyllum (1)
  • Petrophyton (3)
  • Petrophytum (7)
  • Photinia (7)
  • Physocarpus (29)
  • Polylepis (2)
  • Potentilla (270)
  • Poteridium (7)
  • Poterium (30)
  • Prunus (329)
  • Purshia (107)
  • Pyracantha (3)
  • Pyrus (4)
  • Rhaphiolepis (1)
  • Rhodotypos (1)
  • Rosa (172)
  • Rubus (579)
  • Sanguisorba (9)
  • Sarcopoterium (1)
  • Sibbaldia (24)
  • Sibbaldiopsis (1)
  • Sorbus (99)
  • Spiraea (79)