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: 1 November 2023
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
- 561,195 specimen records
- 178,451 (32%) georeferenced
- 471,609 (84%) with images (654,766 total images)
- 3 GenBank genetic references
- 529,352 (94%) identified to species
- 359 families
- 5,403 genera
- 41,309 species
- 45,743 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
