Adams State University Herbarium (ALAM)

The Adams State Herbarium houses ca 8000 specimens of mainly plants collected in Colorado and northern New Mexico.

Contacts: Mathew Sharples, msharples@adams.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 89314c9c-1c25-429b-81a4-fbef327eefb2
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 5,557 specimen records
  • 4,824 (87%) georeferenced
  • 5,554 (100%) with images (5,557 total images)
  • 5,383 (97%) identified to species
  • 121 families
  • 528 genera
  • 1,316 species
  • 1,341 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Agropyron (44)
  • Agrostis (27)
  • Alopecurus (3)
  • Andropogon (4)
  • Aristida (3)
  • Avena (6)
  • Beckmannia (2)
  • Blepharoneuron (7)
  • Bouteloua (3)
  • Bromopsis (7)
  • Bromus (18)
  • Buchloe (1)
  • Calamagrostis (13)
  • Calamovilfa (2)
  • Catabrosa (1)
  • Chloris (1)
  • Dactylis (1)
  • Danthonia (9)
  • Deschampsia (17)
  • Digitaria (1)
  • Distichlis (5)
  • Echinochloa (2)
  • Elymus (10)
  • Eragrostis (4)
  • Festuca (42)
  • Glyceria (4)
  • Hierochloe (1)
  • Hordeum (7)
  • Koeleria (15)
  • Leptochloa (1)
  • Leucopoa (1)
  • Lolium (3)
  • Lycurus (1)
  • Monroa (2)
  • Muhlenbergia (31)
  • Oryzopsis (14)
  • Panicum (2)
  • Phleum (12)
  • Phragmites (1)
  • Poa (92)
  • Polypogon (2)
  • Puccinellia (7)
  • Redfieldia (3)
  • Schedonnardus (1)
  • Setaria (2)
  • Sitanion (16)
  • Sorghum (1)
  • Spartina (5)
  • Sphenopholis (2)
  • Sporobolus (3)
  • Stipa (30)
  • Trisetum (12)
  • Triticum (1)