University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM)

UAM is a small, regional herbarium in Southeast Arkansas, with over half of the specimens collected from Arkansas. The majority of the 28,000 specimens was collected by founding curator Dr. Eric Sundell. Research is currently focused primarily on teaching.

Curator: Richard Abbott, abbottjr@uamont.edu
Arkansas Herbarium Digitization Coordinator: Diana Soteropoulos, diana_soteropoulos@natureserve.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-4247-1375)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 192ef3f0-8d79-4e7b-aaad-d2430f07e6cd
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 28,287 specimen records
  • 3,961 (14%) georeferenced
  • 28,261 (100%) with images (28,535 total images)
  • 27,473 (97%) identified to species
  • 214 families
  • 1,377 genera
  • 4,772 species
  • 5,510 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Agarista (1)
  • Arbutus (2)
  • Arctostaphylos (9)
  • Befaria (2)
  • Calluna (1)
  • Ceratiola (3)
  • Chamaedaphne (4)
  • Chimaphila (4)
  • Elliottia (1)
  • Enkianthus (4)
  • Epigaea (4)
  • Erica (2)
  • Gaultheria (5)
  • Gaylussacia (7)
  • Kalmia (16)
  • Ledum (1)
  • Leucothoe (11)
  • Lyonia (33)
  • Menziesia (1)
  • Monotropa (16)
  • Oxydendrum (11)
  • Pieris (19)
  • Rhododendron (104)
  • Vaccinium (161)
  • Zenobia (1)