University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Herbarium (UWEC)

Wisconsin has a plethora of plant life! The UW-Eau Claire herbarium consists of over 10,000 plant specimens collected from western and central Wisconsin. The dried and pressed plants offer biology students a closer look at the complexity of a single plant. Classes like Plant Systematics, Vegetation Ecology, and Field Botany take special advantage of the herbarium.

Curator: Nora Mitchell, mitchenc@uwec.edu
Contacts: Joe Rohrer, jrohrer@uwec.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 503b3af6-cdb1-49b3-865d-1733687316db
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 6,917 specimen records
  • 3,350 (48%) georeferenced
  • 6,916 (100%) identified to species
  • 110 families
  • 377 genera
  • 798 species
  • 968 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Achillea (46)
  • Ambrosia (37)
  • Anaphalis (21)
  • Antennaria (45)
  • Anthemis (11)
  • Arctium (10)
  • Artemisia (18)
  • Aster (111)
  • Bidens (24)
  • Cacalia (1)
  • Carduus (1)
  • Centaurea (16)
  • Chrysopsis (1)
  • Cichorium (5)
  • Cirsium (28)
  • Conyza (13)
  • Coreopsis (17)
  • Crepis (2)
  • Echinacea (1)
  • Erechtites (2)
  • Erigeron (12)
  • Eupatorium (46)
  • Eurybia (1)
  • Euthamia (1)
  • Eutrochium (2)
  • Gaillardia (1)
  • Galinsoga (2)
  • Helenium (5)
  • Helianthus (87)
  • Heliopsis (9)
  • Heterotheca (1)
  • Hieracium (66)
  • Hypochaeris (1)
  • Ionactis (1)
  • Krigia (14)
  • Lactuca (21)
  • Leucanthemum (18)
  • Liatris (24)
  • Matricaria (23)
  • Palafoxia (1)
  • Parthenium (2)
  • Perityle (1)
  • Prenanthes (11)
  • Ratibida (3)
  • Rudbeckia (38)
  • Senecio (25)
  • Silphium (9)
  • Solidago (24)
  • Symphyotrichum (5)
  • Tanacetum (1)
  • Xanthium (1)