Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria Natural History Collections and Observation Projects

Abay Bryology Collection

In the collection, since 1997, there are bryophytes collected from different geographical regions of Turkey, especially Central Anatolia and Eastern Black Sea Regions, arid and humid regions respectively, and preserved in the envelope as herbarium specimens.

Location: Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, Campus of Zihni Derin, Rize / Turkey 

Contacts: Gökhan Abay, gokhanabay@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 89d6e1d4-6a16-4a36-b564-20981db9c9cb
Digital Metadata: EML File


PH

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University - Bryophytes

PH (the official, internationally recognized abbreviation for the herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences) is the oldest institutional herbarium in U.S. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850, with some dating from as early as 1689.

Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, ans_ph_herbarium@drexel.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 921fe619-c251-4b3b-9ee4-447c586b44cb
Digital Metadata: EML File


CHR

Allan Herbarium, Bryophytes

The Allan Herbarium located in Christchurch, contains species from around the world but specialises in indigenous and exotic plants of the New Zealand region and the South Pacific. There are over 620 000 specimens in the Allan Herbarium with 5000–8000 being added annually. Two-thirds of the specimens are of indigenous plants with the remainder divided between naturalised, cultivated, and foreign specimens. It also has specialist collections of seed, fruit, wood, plant leaf cuticle, liquid–preserved specimens, and microscope slides. The oldest samples are the 91 duplicate specimens collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander during Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand, 1769–1770. The Allan Herbarium's main function is to collect and record the flora of New Zealand, and to make this information readily available to researchers, and regional and national authorities. The collections are used by systematists to classify and identify species accurately, by ecologists to determine historical distributions of species, by biosecurity managers to identify weeds, and by the general public (including botanical groups) for information on plants in New Zealand.

These data are sourced from the following GBIF dataset: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/df582950-3b58-11dc-8c19-b8a03c50a862

Manager: Ines Schonberger
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 February 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


ASU-Bryophytes

Arizona State University Bryophyte Herbarium

Contacts: Frank Bungartz, frank.bungartz@asu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0858bf5a-ea30-42a2-afcd-1e5b54307932
Digital Metadata: EML File


AK

Auckland War Memorial Museum Herbarium

Curator: Yumiko Baba
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 August 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


CANB-Bryophytes

Australian National Herbarium - Bryophytes

The herbarium collections of the ANH are archivally maintained at two sites, Canberra (CANB) and Cairns (CNS). Within Canberra, the collection is split between the Angiosperms located on the CSIRO site and the Cryptogams located on the ANBG site. Specimens representing 'standards' for ACRA registered cultivars and Plant Breeders Rights are also part of the collection. Specimens are preserved with high levels of accuracy in identification, botanical nomenclature and associated field data. The specimen collections play an important role in the CPBR's research projects and represent an invaluable historic record of the Australasian flora.

Curator: Brendan Lepschi, Brendan.Lepschi@csiro.au
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 July 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


MIN

Bell Museum of Natural History, the University of Minnesota

Plant specimens number over 600,000 samples of vegetative parts, cones, fruit, and seeds. The representation of Minnesota's flora is unparalleled, with over 160,000 specimens collected throughout Minnesota's history by Etlar Nielson, Olga Lakela, John W. Moore, Welby Smith, and many others. The record of historic flora of the Upper Midwest (including the Dakotas, Wisconsin, and southwestern Ontario) is among the best in the U.S.
Contacts: Daniel Stanton, stan0477@umn.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 September 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File


SRP

Boise State University Lichen Herbarium

The Snake River Plains (SRP) herbarium at Boise State University is a museum of plant, fungal, and lichen specimens to be used for basic and applied research by the Boise State University faculty, state and federal land managers working in southwest Idaho, and citizen scientists with legitimate botanical questions. Currently through the use of loans the collection is also accessible to the botanical community at large. With digitization of the collection the materials will be accessible without direct handling to the global botanical and ecological research community.
Contacts: Roger Rosentreter, roger.rosentreter0@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


BRIT

Botanical Research Institute of Texas

Over one million plant specimens are housed in the BRIT Herbarium (the combined BRIT-SMU and VDB collections), making this the largest independent herbarium in the southeastern US. The herbarium has strengths in the plants of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, the Gulf Coast, and the southeastern United States. However, these collections are worldwide in scope, and most of the Earth’s plant families are represented here. Two of our current research projects, one in Peru and one in Papua New Guinea, have greatly expanded the scope of our collection of tropical specimens.

Director of the Herbarium: Tiana Rehman, trehman@brit.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8fd3b85f-95d5-488c-9ed6-e18913460ca0
Digital Metadata: EML File


BRY

Brigham Young University

Curator: Steve Leavitt, steve_leavitt@byu.edu
Emeritus Curator: Larry StClair, Larry_StClair@byu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 31 August 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File


BRU

Brown University Herbarium Bryophytes

The Brown University Herbarium was founded in 1869 when the University acquired the collections of the Providence Franklin Society and Stephen Thayer Olney. The collection includes around 100,000 plant specimens and is an important depository of Rhode Island and New England collections. It is also rich in western and southern North American plants and includes special sets of historically valuable specimens from 19th and early 20th century western US expeditions. Among other important collections, the herbarium also includes a full set of Charles Wright’s Cuban plants (1856-1867) and a unique and classic collection of Carex. Click here to download a pdf brochure describing the herbarium.

Contacts: Rebecca Kartzinel, rebecca_kartzinel@brown.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: Brown University

Bryophyta Collection of Saitama Museum of Natural History

Herbarium specimens of Bryophyta deposited in the Saitama Museum of Natural History (SMNH)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 June 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


UNLV

Bryophyte Collection of the Wesley E. Niles Herbarium, College of Southern Nevada, Henderson Campus, Henderson

The herbarium collection consists of approximately 65,000 specimens of vascular plants, and a small but rapidly expanding number of mosses and liverworts.

Collections Manager (inactive): Kathryn Birgy, kathryn.birgy@unlv.edu
Collections Manager (active): Marcus Hooker, Marcus.Hooker@csn.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0002-6551-4489)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8234825f-209e-49bb-a6dc-7ab406bb0f4d
Digital Metadata: EML File


TRH-B

Bryophyte herbarium TRH, NTNU University Museum

The TRH bryophyte herbarium contains specimes of Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta and Anthocerotophyta from most parts of the world, but is best represented for the Northern Hemisphere and especially northern parts of Europe. Almost the whole collection has been digitized. The oldest specimens in the collection is by Hans Strøm from 1745. Collections from the late 1800s and early 1900s comprise the foundation of this collection, primarily through the work of Ingebrigt Severin Hagen who worked at the NTNU University Museum from 1907 until his death in 1917. There was also a peak in activity from 1970-1980 mainly due to the joint efforts of A.A. Frisvoll and K.I. Flatberg. After 1998 the activity has again increased meaning that we have a relatively high proportion of recently collected specimens. Taxonomically Bryophyta constitute about 75% and Marchantiophyta 25% of the collection, with Anthoceratophyta with less than 1%. These numbers roughly represent the species diversity of the main taxonomic groups at northern latitudes. Sphagnum is particularly well represented with more than 25 000 specimens. Much of this is of rather recent date and a result of the taxonomic research by Kjell Ivar Flatberg. Schistidium and Racomitrium are other well represented genera due to the taxonomic work of Hans H. Blom and A.A. Frisvoll. The collection includes more than 1000 type specimens of bryophytes. The top ten countries/areas are: Norway, Svalbard with Jan Mayen, Sweden, United States of America, Canada, Germany, Greenland, France, Iceland and the Russian Federation. Svalbard is very well represented with close to 20 000 occurrences, the main contributor to this material is Arne A. Frisvoll that visited Svalbard and Jan Mayen several times during the 1970’s.
Head of herbarium: Kristian Hassel
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


BUT

Butler University, Friesner Herbarium

The Friesner Herbarium digital collection project is a multiyear effort to link label information from our Indiana specimens with images in a searchable electronic format. Our goal is to increase access to, awareness of and use by all Indiana citizens of the valuable historical botanical information contained with the Friesner Herbarium.
Contacts: Rebecca Dolan, Director, rdolan@butler.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 23324cf3-da44-43f4-8e9f-d17a6aa0c4e0
Digital Metadata: EML File


CAS-BOT-BC

California Academy of Sciences Bryophyte dataset

The herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) is the largest collection of vascular plants in the western U.S. It is the sixth largest collection in the United States. The bryophytes comprise less than 5% of the collection, about 150,000 specimens. Together with the Herbarium of the University of California at Berkeley (UC) the San Francisco Bay area is regarded as a National Resource Center for systematic botany. These two major collections have an informal agreement to avoid duplication, thus providing botanists with a rich and varied resource for research.

Contacts: Emily Magnaghi, emagnaghi@calacademy.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File


SFV-B

California State University, Northridge, Bryophytes

Primarily plants of California but with holdings in other parts of North America and some other places worldwide.
Collections Manager: James Hogue, james.n.hogue@csun.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 64970b88-266b-4727-bbe4-b2d1a732b316
Digital Metadata: EML File

Canadian High Arctic Research Station Herbarium

The Canadian High Arctic Research Station Herbarium (CHARS) focuses on collections from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It currently comprises of tracheophytes, bryophytes, and lichens.

Contacts: Erin Cox, erin.cox@polar-polaire.gc.ca, 867-983-7425 (ORCID #: 0000-0001-6049-0281)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5888d14f-ef7f-4094-9ec7-4b177813228b
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: Polar Knowledge Canada
Access Rights: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada


CMN-CANM

Canadian Museum of Nature

The herbarium was founded in 1882 and contains ~588,000 specimens of north temperate vascular plants, especialy from Canada. Important collectors and collections include T.M.C. Taylor; G. Lawson; R. Bell; N.V. Polunin; R.C. Hosie; A.E. Porsild; J.H. Soper; G.M. Dawson; J. Macoun; W.K.W. Baldwin; H.J. Scoggan; J.M. Gillett; J. Bell; J.M. Macoun; W. Spreadborough; G.W. Argus; M.L. Fernald; A.P. Low; and M.O. Malte.

This herbarium incorporated specimens from part of the LCU (about 10,000 Canadian and arctic specimens), the Geological Survey of Canada, PFES in 2994, and OTF in 1994.
Contacts: Jennifer Doubt, Chief Collection Manager, jdoubt@mus-nature.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 April 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File


SJSU

Carl W. Sharsmith Herbarium at San Jose State University

Founded in 1945 by Dr. Carl Sharsmith, the herbarium at San Jose State University houses a collection of more than 18,500 pressed plants. Many specimens were collected over Dr. Sharsmith's long career as a university professor and natural history ranger at Yosemite National Park.
Contacts: Benjamin Carter, benjamin.carter@sjsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b9bd31c2-d3cc-47f9-9c4f-f0eb53929c56
Digital Metadata: EML File


LKHD

Claude Garton Herbarium, Lakehead University Bryophyte Collection

The Claude Garton Herbarium a regional herbarium of Northwestern Ontario. Currently the accessioned specimens number over 110,000 and of these there is an almost complete collection of the vascular plants of the Thunder Bay area, of which there are about 1000 species. These include the conifers, flowering plants, ferns, clubmosses and horsetails. The herbarium also contains a good representation of the local non-vascular plants: approximately 300 species of mosses; about 100 species of liverworts and approximately 200 species of lichens. Substantial exchanges in the past with Finland, in particular, have added more boreal specimens of lichens and bryophytes. The Claude Garton Herbarium is open to the public. Loans of specimens are usually reserved for institutions that are carrying out research such as plant distributions and taxonomic revisions. The herbarium is currently limiting its intake of physical specimen and strongly encourages submissions of new observations on the iNaturalist platform.
Contacts: Ladislav Malek, lmalek@lakeheadu.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0b2e9891-0a5b-4286-afcb-2a7b059e994e
Digital Metadata: EML File


CLM-Bryophytes

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

The Museum’s regional herbarium, coupled with its strong rare plant and natural area inventory program, has produced a vital conservation data resource. The herbarium houses more than 75,000 plant specimens (4034 mosses, 389 liverworts). Although it contains specimens from nearly every state in the U.S. and many from around the world, the main focus of research is northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania flora.
Contacts: Diane Lucas, rover393@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 May 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File


CGCC

Columbia-Greene Community College Natural History Museum Bryophyte Herbarium

Columbia-Greene Community College is home to a natural history museum with 2000 bird skin specimens, 1400 egg sets with over 5000 eggs, 3000 vascular plant herbarium specimens, and 2000 bryophyte specimens.

Contacts: William Cook, cook@sunycgcc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5bcc0887-f8e9-4195-8e24-ebebfb9228ae
Digital Metadata: EML File


MCTC

Cryptogamic Herbarium, Michigan Technological University

Specialty: Michigan, especially Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale; bryophytes.
Contacts: John Romanowski, jromanow@mtu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 69aa3b5a-3fa0-46fb-8f17-2aa992470954
Digital Metadata: EML File

David J. Sieren Herbarium, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Keeper: Darin Penneys, penneysd@uncw.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 777ed3b0-16cf-46a6-b87a-733a1bf6dd1c
Digital Metadata: EML File


DBG

Denver Botanic Gardens - Bryophytes

Scientific Data Manager: Rick Levy, richard.levy@botanicgardens.org, 7208653657 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-4401-1380)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 21ab0805-9ff6-47b5-9ed2-c6b77ac4bffd
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Public Domain
Access Rights: Public Domain


DUKE

Duke University Herbarium Bryophyte Collection

The L. E. Anderson Bryophyte Herbarium includes approximately 260,000 specimens, of which some 220,000 are mosses. With about 50,000 moss collections from the southeastern United States, the DUKE collection is one of, if not the most important, resource for documenting the southeastern moss flora. Important collections of bryophytes include those of L.E. Anderson, H.L. Blomquist, M. Crosby, A.J. Grout, B.D. Mishler, W.B. Schofield, R. Schuster, A.J. Shaw, 48 bryophyte exsiccatae collections, and over 900 bryophyte type specimens.

Curator of Bryophytes: Jonathan Shaw, shaw@duke.edu
Collections manager: Blanka Aguero, blanka@duke.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0001-8442-5409)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 March 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


ACAD

E. C. Smith Herbarium, Acadia University

The Acadia Herbarium began as an initial gift to Dr. H.G. Perry of a small collection made by G.U. Hay of St. John, New Brunswick. Included in this collection were a few plants collected by J. Fowler of New Brunswick before he went to Queen's University. These first specimens were collected between 1868 and 1880. Some of the plants were cultivated and some were from the United States. Subsequently, in these early years, the additions were made chiefly through the work of Dr. H.G. Perry and his students. No records were available until the collection numbered some 6,000 sheets. Included in the 6,000, however, are a number of sheets from the Gray Herbarium Expeditions to Nova Scotia in 1920 and 1921.
Contacts: Alain Belliveau, Collections Manager, alain.belliveau@acadiau.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 May 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File


TTC-Bryophytes

E.L. Reed Herbarium at Texas Tech University

The E.L. Reed Herbarium was founded in 1925 as part of the Texas Technological College (TTC). Located on the roof of the Biology building, the herbarium was founded by Reed and R.A. Schudhalter, who provided key collections from the South Plains and Panhandle region of Texas. The Bryophyte herbarium was re-started by M.G. Johnson in 2020 from duplicates gifted by the Botanical Research Institute of Texas and T.S. Quedensley.

Contacts: Johnson, Matt, matt.johnson@ttu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:14194
Digital Metadata: EML File


EWU-Bryophytes

Eastern Washington University Herbarium

Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular, Lichens, Bryophytes, Fleshy fungi. Geography: Inland Pacific Northwest of North America.
Contacts: Robin O'Quinn, roquinn@ewu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 2015286e-81af-45e7-ba8e-8485156b6da9
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


ELON

Elon University Herbarium - Bryophytes

ELON has approximately 2500-2600 herbarium specimens in its collection. Most of these (~2200) are vascular plants primarily collected by students in botany classes over the past 70 years and are primarily from North Carolina and adjacent states. ELON also has a small collection of bryophytes (~200 specimens), the majority of which are from the moss and liverwort exsiccatae distributed by T. C. Frye, and macroalgae (~100 specimens).

Cite this collection:

Elon University Herbarium - Bryophytes. Occurrence dataset (ID: 36b42f4f-a3af-4d64-93ba-85a35c1b87bc) accessed via the Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria Portal. https://bryophyteportal.org (Accessed [date accessed])

Lecturer: Kevan McClelland, kschoonovermcclell@elon.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 36b42f4f-a3af-4d64-93ba-85a35c1b87bc
Digital Metadata: EML File


GEO

Emory University Bryophyte Herbarium

The Emory University Herbarium (GEO) has more than 20,200 plant specimens, dating back to the early 1900s. The majority of the collection is composed of plants from the southeast USA collected by Don E. Eyles (aquatic plants), Robert F. Thorne (Flora of SW Georgia) and Madeline L. Burbanck (granite rock outcrop plants). Recent collections more focused on our growing global collection from the Mediterranean and Balkans (medicinal plants) and Australia (pollinator ecology).
Contacts: Tharanga Samarakoon, Collections Manager, tsamarakoon@emory.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 28 April 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


EVE

Evergreen Natural History Museum

Contacts: Lalita Calabria, Ph.D., lalita.calabria@gmail.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 15 January 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File


SJFM

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium - Bryophyte Collection

The Fairbanks Museum Herbarium in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is not yet fully digitized. Recent specimens are being added by collectors working in the Bryophyte Portal.

Curator: Beau Harris, bharris@fairbanksmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5fca51d3-fbc0-4d36-9b1b-f4d7b9456cb0
Digital Metadata: EML File


FTG

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Herbarium

Fairchild is dedicated to exploring, explaining and conserving the world of tropical plants. We are one of the premier conservation and education-based gardens in the world and a recognized international leader in both Florida and international conservation. Currently Fairchild has field programs in over 20 countries including support to protected areas in Madagascar and Africa and botanic garden development and renovation projects in South and Central America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.
Contacts: Dr. Brett Jestrow, Curator of the Herbarium., bjestrow@fairchildgarden.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


FH

Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University

The Farlow Herbarium houses nearly 1,400,000 specimens of lichenized and non-lichenized fungi, bryophytes, and algae. The collections are world-wide in scope; particular strengths are in bound, indexed exsiccatae, bryophytes and fungi from Asia, entomogenous fungi, Antarctic lichens, and special "authors" herbaria which contain many type specimens.

Contacts: Kennedy, Jonathan, jonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 November 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Access Rights: https://huh.harvard.edu/access-digital-reproductions-works-public-domain


F-Botany

Field Museum of Natural History

The bryophyte collection at The Field Museum is a major resource for bryophyte systematics, particularly for Central and South American, temperate Australasian, North American and European taxa. The collection consists of more than 200,000 specimens, including 127,614 moss and 51,508 hepatic specimens with a total of 2,284 types. Additional electronic access to F database is available at: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/Query.php

Contacts: Matt Von Konrat, mvonkonrat@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The Field Museum of Natural History
Access Rights: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information


UWGB

Gary A. Fewless Herbarium - Bryophytes

The Fewless Herbarium is focused on the flora of the Western Great Lakes Region, and encompasses vascular plants, bryophytes—particularly Sphagnum—, and lichens.

Herbarium Curator: Keir Wefferling, wefferlk@uwgb.edu, (920) 465-5032
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d4414f8f-4492-4a66-b7db-cda659d78ae5
Digital Metadata: EML File


CNABH

General Observation and Personal Collections

Personal research data managed directly within data portal. This data node allows researchers to enter, manage, and print labels for their field data before specimens are deposited within a public collection. The records are considered 'observations' until the specimens are formally accessioned and a physical specimen available to researchers within a public institution.
Contacts: CNABH Administrator, CNABHadmin@asu.edu
Collection Type: General Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 805ac87c-72fa-4449-abf7-9bb0a6cc2bf7
Digital Metadata: EML File


UConn-CONN

George Safford Torrey Herbarium

The George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN) supports botanical research in all disciplines including systematics, taxonomy, biodiversity, ecology, ethnobotany, palaeobotany, evolution and education. The herbarium combines significant palaeobotanical, bryological, lichenological, mycological, phycological and vascular plants totaling over 200,000 specimens, all housed in a state-of-the-art facility. An active collecting program adopted by both past and current faculty, staff and students in the University of Connecticut's Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) has enriched the collections at CONN with a wealth of specimens from many world regions, which serve as a critical foundation for diverse scientific research activities. Notably, our specimen resources represent one of the most important research collections of native New England plants and include an excellent representation of the region's imperiled and invasive species. The CONN Herbarium, in conjunction with EEB, promotes the use of its collections as educational resources in plant biology.
Contacts: Dr. Sarah Taylor, sarah.taylor@uconn.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4b6e6674-b6cc-422d-8142-e18714a7c192
Digital Metadata: EML File


SNM

Gila Center for Natural History (WNMU) Herbarium

Dale A. Zimmerman Herbarium managed by the Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences
Contacts: William R. Norris, norrisw@wnmu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9360db15-36e5-4403-b74d-d3075121ff79
Digital Metadata: EML File


SFSU

Harry D. Thiers Herbarium at San Francisco State University

The Harry D. Thiers Herbarium at San Francisco State University maintains over 113,ooo specimens. Its primary research focus is mycological. Most of the early collections were made by Harry Thiers and his students, and later by Dennis Desjardin and his students. Specialties include fleshy fungi of North America, Hawai'i, Indonesia, and southeast Asia; California lichens, bryophytes, and flowering plants, with an exceptionally large collection of Arctostaphylos.
Contacts: Dennis Desjardin, Director, ded@sfsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


HXC

Hendrix College Herbarium - Bryophytes

Small collection of ~170 specimens primarily from Michigan and Arkansas

Curator: Adam Schneider, schneider@hendrix.edu
Arkansas Herbarium Digitization Coordinator: Diana Soteropoulos, Diana.Soteropoulos@arkansas.gov, 5013249763 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-4247-1375)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 486357cb-1276-4f08-9933-36f9d4378277
Digital Metadata: EML File


GB

Herbarium GB, University of Gothenburg

This database contains information from Gothenburg herbarium, Herbarium GB. It is a university-wide research infrastructure at the University of Gothenburg in the Department of Biology and Environmental Science.
Director: Claes Persson
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 July 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


UME

Herbarium of Umeå University

Herbarium UME is a public research herbarium encompassing approximately 300 000 specimens of vascular plants, mosses, algae, fungi and lichens from all parts of the world, but mainly from northern Sweden. Herbarium UME is run by the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (EMG) at the University of Umeå, Sweden, and is a member of NAMSA (Co-operation Forum for Swedish Natural History Museums). The herbarium was founded in 1968 at the former Department for Ecological Botany. Originally, most material came from donations and exchange. Since then much material has been added from researchers collections, schools, private collections, inventories, local flora projects etc. The collections are still growing, and we are happy to recieve material from any part of Northern Fennoscandia. The aim of Herbarium UME is to preserve plant collections from northern Sweden, to give active support to the botanical exploration of the region and to encourage a proper documentation of the flora in connection with inventories, flora projects and research work. The dataset currently holds about 50000 bryophytes, 22000 lichens, 15000 fungi, 10000 vascular plants, and some algae. About a third of the collection at the herbarium is currently registered in the database.

Curator: Katarina Stenman
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 April 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File


CSCN

High Plains Herbarium at Chadron State College

Contacts: Steven B. Rolfsmeier, srolfsmeier@csc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d400e3b3-d399-4339-8ff6-55bca53a5479
Digital Metadata: EML File


HSC-Bryophytes

Humboldt State University Herbarium - Bryophytes

The Humboldt State University Herbarium has a strong emphasis in the flora of northwest California and southwest Oregon. Established in 1960, the Herbarium serves as a botanical resource for students and faculty, as well as, community members and professional botanists. Our collections offer excellent opportunities to learn more about the rich diversity of our native flora. The Herbarium also participates in loan and exchange programs with other herbaria throughout the country.

Curator: Robin Bencie, mrb1@humboldt.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e410444f-a6d6-48c7-8479-65392e734339
Digital Metadata: EML File


INM

Ibaraki Nature Museum

Bryophyta specimens deposited in the Ibaraki Nature Museum
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 April 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


ILLS

Illinois Natural History Survey

Since 1858, the Illinois Natural History Survey has been the guardian and recorder of the biological resources of Illinois.
Contacts: Andrew Miller, Ph.D., Mycologist and Director, amiller7@illinois.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 July 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


IND

Indiana University Herbarium

The Department of Biology administers the Indiana University Herbarium (IND). Founded in 1885, the herbarium houses about 155,000 specimens of vascular plants, including the collections of Charles C. Deam on which the Flora of Indiana is based.

Contacts: Eric Knox, Director/Curator, eknox@indiana.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 18 April 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File

Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The dataset with 49,726 moss occurrences located predominantly on the territory European North-East Russia was described in this data paper. The dataset was based on the digitized bryophytes labels from the Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Сenter of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences herbarium (SYKO). The information from the labels was recognized, cleaned and brought into compliance with the Darwin Core. More than 99.9% of occurrences were georeferenced with a precision of at least 3 km. For each record of occurrence the digital image of original label was attached. The dataset contains occurrences of 539 moss and liverworts taxa (with species and lower ranks) belonging to 190 genera and 75 families.

Contacts: Galina Zheleznova, zheleznova@ib.komisc.ru
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 July 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File


USU-UTC

Intermountain Herbarium (Bryophytes), Utah State University

The bryophyte collection of the Intermountain Herbarium consists largely of duplicates from Seville Flowers, William A. Weber, and Leila M. Shultz. It has started to grow, albeit slowly, mostly with additions from northern Utah.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1e4a146a-9215-4102-95c0-a8d4abb5d9f5
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Mary Barkworth


ISC

Iowa State University, Ada Hayden Herbarium

The Ada Hayden Herbarium’s bryophyte collection combines the “traditional” ISC holdings and those from the University of Iowa (formerly IA). The University of Iowa Herbarium was transferred to ISC in 2004. This collection contains significant numbers of specimens collected by bryologists and botanists associated with both universities: Elizabeth (Betty) Blagg, James T. Colbert, Henry S. Conard, Donald R. Farrar, Ada Hayden, Diana G. Horton, Robert L. Hulbary, Bohumil Shimek and others. Conard’s “Moss Clinics” added specimens from many additional bryologists worldwide. The bryophyte collection contains an estimated 45,000 specimens.
Contacts: Deborah Lewis; Jim Colbert, dlewis@iastate.edu; jtcolber@iastate.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4eb3880f-1eaf-4a7d-a454-7d41c5b5dc71
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Iowa State University


SUCO

Jewell and Arline Moss Settle Herbarium at SUNY Oneonta

The Jewell and Arline Moss Settle Herbarium is a small regional herbarium containing approximately 15,000 specimens, including vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, fungi, and algae. The majority of its holdings are from central New York and Adirondack Park. Functioning primarily as a teaching herbarium, it also contains vouchers for New York State county floras and supports molecular and ecological research on plants of New York State.
Contacts: Sean C. Robinson, sean.robinson@oneonta.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a8d141f3-b0aa-4923-81ed-f9eabe85e806
Digital Metadata: EML File


KE

Kent State University Bryophyte Herbarium

Founded in 1921, the Tom S. & Miwako K. Cooperrider Herbarium at Kent State University (KE) currently houses approximately 93,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens. The collection primarily focuses on the flora of northeastern Ohio and adjacent regions. Significant collections include those of T. S. Cooperrider and his students, and the late 19th and early 20th century collections of Almon Rood and his contemporaries.

Contacts: Dylan Stover, dstover@kent.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 February 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File

Laurie L. Consaul Herbarium, Bryophyte Collection

The Dr. Laurie L. Consaul Herbarium (UWO) comprises over 42,000 specimens of vascular plants, with best representation of the plants of southwestern Ontario, and sparse coverage of the remainder of Canada, the United States and other parts of the world. In addition there are several thousand specimens of Crataegus (Rosaceae) from all parts of North America including Mexico as well as small bryophyte, fungi and lichen collections.

Assistant to the Curator: Kris Mendola, kmendola@uwo.ca, 519-661-2111 ext. 86506
Curator: Greg Thorn, rgthorn@uwo.ca, 519-661-2111 ext. 88647
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 84000d6a-7fd2-4e6a-9885-3d294ad26ff9
Digital Metadata: EML File


QFA

Louis-Marie Herbarium, Université Laval

The Louis-Marie Herbarium contains a high quality collection of plants that is adapted to the needs of researchers in the fields of systematics, biogeography, genetics, and molecular ecology. The herbarium places an emphasis on Canada’s arctic-alpine, subarctic, and boreal species. The herbarium is making its collection available to both researchers and students with the creation of an interactive electronic database HERCUL (Herbier catalogué de l'Université Laval). Currently 31% of the herbarium collection (770 000 specimens) are catalogued in the HERCUL database.

Curator: Juan Carlos Villarreal Aguilar, jcvil9@ulaval.ca (ORCID #: 0000-0002-0770-1446)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 September 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File


LD

Lund Botanical Museum

The scientific collections of Lund Universty Botanical Museum (Herbarium LD) comprise 2.5 million specimens divided into algae & cyanobacteria (102 000), bryophytes (149 000), fungi (63 000), lichens (170 000) and vascular plants (2 000 000). The collections go back to the 18th century and represent more than 250 years of scientific research. Coverage is worldwide with particularly important collections from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Greece, Turkey, North Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Australia.
Museum Director: Ulf Arup
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 March 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File


LCDI

Luther College

The LCDI herbarium is a small collection used primarily for teaching and undergraduate research. Is is particularly strong in the flora of northeastern Iowa.
Contacts: Beth Lynch, lynchbet@luther.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5d80d47c-ae13-4980-924a-624a8c5bfef8
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Luther College


VPI

Massey Herbarium (Virginia Tech)

The small bryophyte collection at Virginia Tech consists of about 3500 specimens most of which were collected in Virginia. New accessions are growing the collection slowly. Many specimens from southwestern Virginia were collected by Douglas W. Ogle and identified by David Breil, dec’d, formerly at Longwood University. These specimens were formerly at Virginia Highlands Community College, transferred to VPI in 2003. Proportionally, Sphagnum makes up a large portion of the collection, many having been determined by Lewis Anderson, and specimens come from across Virginia. Physiographically, the mountain region is best represented. VPI welcomes assistance with identification of additional unaccessioned specimens.
Contacts: Dr. Jordan Metzgar, Curator, metzgar@vt.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 December 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


MCCC-Bryophytes

Mendocino College Coast Center Herbarium - Bryophytes

Approximately 1000 dried and enveloped moss and liverwort specimens. Much of the collections were made by the late Donald T. Kowalski. Most of the later specimens were collected by Teresa A. Sholars. The label information includes locations and dates, many include substrate information.

Curator: Teresa A. Sholars, tsholars@mendocino.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 378c5a57-82c9-4d33-8aaf-341e9558dff5
Digital Metadata: EML File


UWFP

Michael I. Cousens Herbarium, University of West Florida

The Michael I. Cousens Herbarium of the University of West Florida (UWF) was established 30 October 1974 as the Herbarium of the University of West Florida documenting the Flora of the Florida panhandle and neighboring states. Currently its holdings include approximately 22,000 vascular plant specimens of 3500 species and smaller collections of bryophytes and macroalgae.
Contacts: Tanya Streeter, Office Administrator, tstreete@uwf.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


MSC

Michigan State University bryophytes

The MSU Herbarium was founded in 1863 with the donation of a large collection of plants from Michigan and the eastern U.S. Today, we remain focused on plant and fungal diversity from Michigan, but the collection is also rich in plants from Mexico and southeast Asia, and lichens from the Caribbean and the subantarctic region. With over half a million specimens, the MSU Herbarium is among the 50 largest herbaria in the United States, whereas the lichen collection, with 120,000 accessioned collections, is among the 10 largest in North America and, because of its geographical scope, of international importance.

Contacts: L. Alan Prather, alan@msu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 April 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


MO-Bryophytes

Missouri Botanical Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Herbarium is one of the world’s outstanding research resources for specimens and information on bryophytes and vascular plants. The collection is limited to these two major groups of plants. As of 31 December 2020 the herbarium collection had 6.93 million mounted specimens (6.33 million vascular plants and 598,000 bryophytes). This specimen dataset includes over 4.7 million records (4.3 million vascular plants and 380,000 bryophytes).
Curator: John Atwood, john.atwood@mobot.org, (314) 577-0235
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 December 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)

Missouri Botanical Garden - in process of being digitized

The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Herbarium is one of the world’s outstanding research resources for specimens and information on bryophytes and vascular plants. The collection is limited to these two major groups of plants. As of 31 December 2020 the herbarium collection had 6.93 million mounted specimens (6.33 million vascular plants and 598,000 bryophytes). This specimen dataset includes over 4.7 million records (4.3 million vascular plants and 380,000 bryophytes).
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: baf21610-f6f7-43f3-bd42-12fbf44fc5c2
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


MDKY

Morehead State University

Contacts: Allen Risk, Director, a.risk@moreheadstate.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 455c0911-7610-46f5-b34d-2f8a7170914d
Digital Metadata: EML File


MOR

Morton Arboretum - Bryophytes

The Morton Arboretum is an internationally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to the planting and conservation of trees. Its 1,700 acres hold more than 222,000 live plants representing nearly 4,300 taxa from around the world.

Contacts: General Information and Visitor Services, ahipp@mortonarb.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5c24e98a-64f2-405f-8bbe-225df93f99db
Digital Metadata: EML File


MW

Moscow University Herbarium, Bryophytes

Moscow University Herbarium (MW) is the second largest herbarium in Russia after the Komarov Institute. Being available at https://plant.depo.msu.ru/, it is almost completely imaged either at 300 dpi for regular collections or at 600 dpi for type specimens. The herbarium is focused on the flora of temperate Eurasia with an emphasis on the flora of Russia. As of 1 November 2018, physical collections of MW Herbarium include 1,044,571 specimens (incl. 4.8K type specimens) representing 37,200 species and subspecies of vascular plants and 2,223 species and subspecies of bryophytes. Currently, MW holds the 63rd place in the world's ranking (Thiers, 2019). Moscow University Herbarium preserve some important historical collections by G.F. Hoffmann, J.F. Ehrhart, C.B. Trinius, J.R. and J.G.A. Forsters, and their correspondents.
Curator: Alexi Seregin
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


PC

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Cryptogams

The herbarium of the museum, referred to by code PC, includes a large number of important collections amongst its 2 000 000 cryptogams (algae, bryophyta, fungi and lichens) specimens. These collections are constitued by a general herbarium and numerous particular collections. Among these last, Allorge, Bescherelle, Bourdot & Galzin, Heim, Hue, Montagne, Romagnesi, Sauvageau, Thuret & Bornet herbaria.
Curator: Sébastien Leblond
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


MNA-Bryophytes

Museum of Northern Arizona Herbarium

The Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) is a private, non-profit, member-based institution located in Flagstaff, Arizona at the base of the beautiful San Francisco Peaks. The Museum was founded in 1928 by Harold S. Colton and Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton and was originally established to protect and preserve the natural and cultural heritage of northern Arizona through research, collections, conservation and education. MNA's mission to inspire a sense of love and responsibility for the beauty and diversity of the Colorado Plateau through collecting, studying, interpreting, and preserving the region’s natural and cultural heritage. Located in the Easton Collection Center on MNA’s Research Campus, the McDougall Herbarium focuses on plant, fungi, and lichen collections from the Colorado Plateau. It contains examples of most of the flora of northern Arizona and is particularly strong in plants of the Grand Canyon region.
Contacts: Kirstin Olmon Phillips, KPhillips@musnaz.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3739a9ec-615d-44e1-b44f-0c3c31689449
Digital Metadata: EML File


TNS

National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan

Bryophyte specimens deposited at the Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science (TNS).

Contacts: Dr. Yuya Inoue, yinoue@kahaku.go.jp
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 April 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


PTBG

National Tropical Botanical Garden - Bryophyte collection

PTBG houses about 5,500 specimens of bryophytes and 1430 lichens primarily from Hawaiʻi, and the broader tropical Pacific region, which includes the Polynesia-Micronesia biodiversity hotspot. 

Curator: Tim Flynn, tflynn@ntbg.org
Director of Science and Conservation: Nina Rønsted, nronsted@ntbg.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-2002-5809)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 September 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: National Tropical Botanical Garden


BM-Bryophytes

Natural History Museum London

Senior Bryophyte Curator: Len Ellis
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 30 June 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File


Harvard University-NEBC

New England Botanical Club (Harvard University Herbaria)

The NEBC herbarium limits its scope to the six New England states and is the largest collection for this region anywhere.

Contacts: Elizabeth Kneiper, ekneiper@aol.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 September 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File


NY

New York Botanical Garden

The Steere Bryophyte Herbarium holds perhaps the most important collection of bryophytes in the world in terms of the number of specimens, and the geographical and taxonomic depth and breadth. The herbarium contains approximately 640,000 specimens (520,000 mosses and 120,000 hepatics and hornworts). Of this total, approximately 24,500 (4%) are type specimens. This is the largest bryophyte herbarium in the Western Hemisphere and is among the five largest worldwide. The collection continues to grow actively today through staff collections and exchange. The emphasis is on collections from the Western Hemisphere, but virtually all areas of the world are represented.
Collections Manager of Cryptogamic Herbarium: Laura Briscoe, lbriscoe@nybg.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-3900-4450)
Assistant Director of the Herbarium for Botanical Information Management: Kimberly Watson, kwatson@nybg.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 17 November 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


NYS

New York State Museum

The Bryophyte Herbarium of the New York State Museum includes mosses, liverworts, and hornworts and it serves to document these plant groups as they are represented in the New York flora. While most of the bryophyte collection is from New York, also included are significant holdings from other parts of the United States and from other countries. The total number of accessioned specimens exceeds 50,000.

The Bryophyte Herbarium has had a long history, and accordingly it houses numerous collections dating from the 1800s. Important historical collections include specimens from Coe Finch Austin, Elizabeth G. Britton, George W. Clinton, Roy Latham, John M. Macoun, and W. H. Wiegmann. An important nineteen volume bound set of bryophytes prepared by Lewis Caleb Beck includes collections that likely predate 1829. Other major collections are the results of research and studies by former state botanists and curators, Charles H. Peck, Stanley J. Smith, and Norton G. Miller.

Collections Manager: Diana Murphy, Diana.Murphy@nysed.gov, 518-402-5350
Curator of Botany: Dr. James C. Lendemer, james.lendemer@nysed.gov, 518-473-6511
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 11 December 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: New York State Museum


NMCR

NMSU Center for Natural History Collections Range Science

Contacts: Sara Fuentes-Soriano, sfuensor@nmsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 February 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File


NDA

North Dakota State University Herbarium

Note: The NDSU bryophyte collection is now held by the Missouri Botanical Garden
Specialty: All groups, except fungi and algae, of North Dakota; worldwide, emphasis on northern Great Plains.
Contacts: Edward DeKeyser, edward.dekeyser@ndsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


OS

Ohio State University Herbarium

The Ohio State University Herbarium (OS) is a major collection of plant and fungal specimens and is a unit of the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology. We are part of OSU's Museum of Biological Diversity. Since its founding in 1891, the collection has grown to approximately half a million specimens and has worldwide coverage, with strengths in flora of the northeastern United States (especially Ohio) and in temperate South America. The Herbarium supports research and teaching at OSU and receives frequent use by researchers from other academic institutions, as well as by staff from governmental agencies such as the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Contacts: John V. Freudenstein, Director, freudenstein.1@osu.edu
Contacts: Robert Klips, klips.1@osu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5ba6eb8c-8332-4d91-ae02-d7fdb4b208fa
Digital Metadata: EML File


OSC

Oregon State University Herbarium

The Oregon State University Herbarium houses approximately 405,000 vascular plant, bryophyte, algal, and fungal specimens. The collections are worldwide in scope, with a focus on the state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.
Contacts: Aaron Liston, Director, listona@science.oregonstate.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 February 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Osaka Museum of Natural History, Bryophyte specimens database of Mr. Tsutomu Kodama collection

Bryophyta specimens collected in Kinki district, (Osaka Museum of Natural History).

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 July 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


OHN-B

Oskarshamn herbarium

This database contains information from the herbarium of Oskarshamn, Sweden. Specimens are collected from 1850 and later. The specimens are mainly collected from Sweden, but also from Austria, Norway, France and USA.
Curator: Åke Rühling, ake.ruhling@telia.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 February 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File


WWB

Pacific Northwest Herbarium, Western Washington University

The mission of the Pacific Northwest Herbarium (WWB) at Western Washington University is to archive and make accessible correctly identified botanical specimens, with an emphasis on those inhabiting the Pacific Northwest. Because a large part of our aim is to share this repository of botanical information, we have an open door policy with scientists, students, and the greater community. As such, the herbarium is an excellent resource for anyone interested in botany and mycology of the Pacific Northwest. Our entire vascular plant collection is now available online through the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria.
Contacts: Eric DeChaine, Curator, eric.dechaine@wwu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


LEDLIE

Patricia Ledlie Herbarium

Contacts: Pat Ledlie, ledlie@ledlie.com
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 May 2014
Digital Metadata: EML File


KSP

Pittsburg State University

The current estimate of bryophyte specimens at the T. M. Sperry Herbarium (KSP) at Pittsburg State University is 7000, with at least 1000 backlogged, representing 25 countries. Exsiccate from various sources are among the backlog. Significant collections include those of the previous curator Stephen L. Timme. A small number of specimens (<300) databased on the main KSP database portal will be transferred here eventually. Most data initially were captured via OCR by MO with support from NSF.
Contacts: Neil Snow, Director, nsnow@pittstate.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: df27da08-7255-4b3f-8902-2e75792cf061
Digital Metadata: EML File


HPSU

Portland State University Bryophytes

Pacific Northwest; all groups

Herbarium Manager: John Christy, john.christy@pdx.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Private herbarium of Becky Smucker

The personal bryophyte collection of Rebekah J. Smucker in Asheville, North Carolina, holds several thousand specimens of which some duplicates are at DUKE and other institutions.
Contacts: Becky Smucker, bjsmucker@gmail.com
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 October 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

Private herbarium of Dorothy Allard

The personal bryophyte herbarium of Dorothy Allard. Some specimens are duplicates of those deposited at VT and in other institutions.
Contacts: Dorothy Allard, dorothy.allard@gmail.com
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 30 November 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

Private herbarium of Morghan McCool

The personal bryophyte collection of Morghan McCool, PhD student in Fuselier Lab, University of Louisville, KY.

Contacts: Morghan McCool, morghan.mccool@louisville.edu
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


OBI

Robert F. Hoover Herbarium, Cal Poly State University - Bryophytes

The Hoover Herbarium houses 85,000+ specimens of vascular plants, algae, lichens, and bryophytes. The geographic focus is San Luis Obispo County, California. The collection also includes many specimens from other areas of California, other states of the US, particularly Arizona, and some from other regions of the world, especially Mexico. Emphasis areas in the collection include Asteraceae, Lupinus, and cultivated Eucalyptus. Major collections include Robert F. Hoover (1946–1969), David J. Keil (1966–present), Rhonda Riggins (1970s–2000), Tracy Call (mostly Apiaceae—late 1940s–1960s), and Robert J. Rodin (1940s–1977). The collection is used extensively in undergraduate teaching and training. Important Collections: Robert F. Hoover (1946–1969), David J. Keil (1966–present), Rhonda Riggins (1970s–2000), Tracy Call (mostly Apiaceae—late 1940s–1960s), and Robert J. Rodin (1940s–1977)

Contacts: Jenn Yost, Director and Assistant Professor o, jyost@calpoly.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 32bed155-4928-4bfe-9aee-fe6f7ec7c47b
Digital Metadata: EML File


UWSP

Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

Dr. Robert Freckmann, Professor Emeritus of Biology, taught vascular plant taxonomy and agrostology at UW-Stevens Point for 32 years. Starting with one cabinet of about 1,000 plant specimens in 1969, he (and Dr. Frank W. Bowers) built this herbarium into the 3rd largest in Wisconsin, with over 200,000 specimens. It was named in his honor upon his retirement.
Contacts: Dr. Virginia Freire, vfreire@uwsp.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


CHRB

Rutgers University, Chrysler Herbarium - Bryophyte Collection

The Chrysler Herbarium is the last internationally recognized herbarium still in existence in the state of New Jersey. Approximately 120,000 plant, algal, moss and lichen specimens are arranged and catalogued systematically. The collection is world-wide in scope, with an emphasis on New Jersey.

Director: Lena Struwe, lena.struwe@rutgers.edu
Contacts: Chrysler Herbarium, herbarium@sebs.rutgers.edu, 848-932-4011
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 30 March 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Rutgers University


SBBG

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden - Bryophyte Collection

The SBBG herbaria house the region's largest scientific collection of preserved Central Coast and California Channel Islands vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, and macrofungi. Across these collections, the Garden curates approximately 210,000 specimens. Vascular plant specimen data are served on this portal (https://cch2.org/). Lichen specimen data are served on the Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria (https://lichenportal.org/cnalh/). Macrofungus specimen data are served on the Mycology Collections Portal (https://mycoportal.org/portal/index.php). Bryophyte data are served here on the Bryophyte Portal.

Director: C. Matt Guilliams, mguilliams@sbbg.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 948e88e5-74e4-495a-afda-0ad722d5d92d
Digital Metadata: EML File


SD

SD Herbarium, San Diego Natural History Museum - Bryophytes

The San Diego Natural History Museum Department of Botany focuses on biodiversity, evolutionary history research, and documentation of the flora in Southern California, Baja California, and adjacent areas. With a collection dating back to the 1870s, the SD Herbarium is invaluable as a scientific resource that documents regional plant populations and has been used for basic natural history research. Botanists with regional colleges, universities, and museums utilize the collections for their own research and for student projects, both by visiting the collection in person and/or through loans. The SD Herbarium houses over 270,000 accessioned specimens, all of which have been databased. Specimens from southern California account for nearly half of our collection and about 20% of our collection is from Baja California. Nearly all San Diego County and Baja California records have been georeferenced (99%). The Botany Department maintains two web sites that serve researchers with searching and mapping pages, checklists, voucher images, data input forms for collectors, and other tools for using our collections. SDPlantAtlas.org serves researchers interested in the plants of California’s San Diego and Imperial Counties. BajaFlora.org serves the needs of researchers interested in the plants of the two states of Baja, Mexico, consolidating the SD collections and the collections of the two primary herbaria in Baja.

Contacts: Layla Aerne Hains, laerne@sdnhm.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 83ecd7e5-bcd7-46e2-8900-341c19695e0d
Digital Metadata: EML File


SDSU

SDSU - Bryophytes of the San Diego State University Herbarium

Collections manager: Mike Simpson, sdsuherbarium@sdsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 41fada08-0e62-4b25-8f70-666c711d220a
Digital Metadata: EML File

Shasta-Trinity National Forest Herbarium

Botanist: Lusetta Sim, Lusetta.sims@usda.gov
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 51b19fe4-9b78-47d4-a1a4-9e013ef3a38a
Digital Metadata: EML File


LSU-Bryophytes

Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University

Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University, Bryophyte Collection: ca. 10,000 specimens, particularly from Louisiana, California, throughout North America, Peru, and worldwide through exchange and collections by Shirley C. Tucker. Includes Tulane University (NO) bryophtyes.
Contacts: Jennifer S. Kluse, Collections Manager, jkluse@lsu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: fce06a6b-7beb-4cd4-a8fa-f1a0f271ad1f
Digital Metadata: EML File


SQB

Société Québécoise de Bryologie

The herbarium of Société Québécoise de Bryologie is now housed at the Louis-Marie Herbarium, Université Laval (QFA).
BRYOQUEL, la base de données des bryophytes du Québec‐Labrador, est un projet de la Société québécoise de bryologie. Il a pour objectif principal de rendre publique l’information documentant la présence, la répartition, la taxonomie, les références bibliographiques et le statut des bryophytes répertoriées sur le territoire du Québec‐Labrador.
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 February 2015
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Digital Metadata: EML File


BING

State University of New York - Binghamton

Specialty: Sphagnum, especially of New York; Pacific Northwest; Alaska; New Zealand; collected and/or identified by Richard Andrus.
Date Founded: 1956. Collection moved to DUKE herbarium in 2019.
Contacts: Jon Shaw, shaw@duke.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6fffd3a8-860d-4851-962f-db6e53556b7f
Digital Metadata: EML File


S

Swedish Museum of Natural History, mosses

Curator of Bryology: Lars Hedenäs
Herbarium Catalogue: http://herbarium.nrm.se/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 December 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File


SBT

The Bergius Herbarium, Bryophytes

The Bergius Herbarium is the Bergius Foundations historical collection. It consists mainly of P.J. Bergius own collection with some additions made by the two first Professor Bergiani, O. Swartz and J.E. Wikström. The last accessions were made in 1856. The Bergius Herbarium includes specimens of angiosperms, gymnosperms, algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens, including some type specimens. Important collectors are C.P. Thunberg, M. Grubb, D. Rolander, P. Osbeck, C.H. Wänman, C.G. Ekeberg, and O. Swartz. There are some 18000 specimens in the Bergius Herbarium, of which about 7200 are included in the dataset.
Contacts: Niklas Wikström
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 May 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File


CHSC

The Chico State Herbarium

Located in Holt Hall room 129, the Herbarium is the most complete repository of plant specimens from northeastern California. The emphasis is on the northern California flora, and includes a great number of rare, threatened, and endangered plant species. Established with specimens donated by the late Professor Vesta Holt in the 1950's, the herbarium now contains more than 105,000 dried and mounted plant specimens. The majority of samples are flowering plants, conifers, and ferns, but bryophytes, lichens, and especially slime molds, are also well represented. The herbarium is used extensively for identification of sensitive and other plant species by various agencies and individuals. Loans of herbarium specimens are made to any higher academic institutions who request them.
Contacts: Lawrence Janeway, Curator, LJaneway@csuchico.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f66acd75-2787-4938-8e2c-ffddc5ec76aa
Digital Metadata: EML File


AUA

The Freeman Herbarium at Auburn University, Bryophyte Collection

The Freeman Herbarium (AUA) contains over 80,000 specimens of vascular and non-vascular plants including, about 1800 bryophytes, over 3000 lichens, and about 3000 specimens of fungi.

Contacts: Curtis Hansen, Collections Manager, hansecj@auburn.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


ARIZ

The University of Arizona Herbarium

With over 400,000 specimens, ARIZ is the world's largest collection of plants from Arizona and Sonora, Mexico.
Contacts: George Ferguson - Collections Manager, herbarium@ag.arizona.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 16 December 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


BALT

Towson University Biodiversity Center

The herbarium (BALT) was formally organized in 1967 under the directorship of Dr. Mary Castelli. Two years following its establishment, Dr. Donald Windler joined the faculty and became the curator of the collection. Following the retirement of Dr. Windler (in 2003), Dr. Roberts assumed the directorship of the collections. During Dr. Windler’s tenure, the collection grew extensively. The core collection is built around a donation of specimens from the Maryland Natural History Society. The donation includes specimens from as early as 1864 and represents historic records of species distribution in Maryland and the mid-Atlantic region.
Contacts: David Hearn, Curator of Botany, dhearn@towson.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b2687b33-a5f6-44f9-9271-2b90f39b6bc6
Digital Metadata: EML File

Toyama Science Museum

Bryophyte specimens deposited at Toyama Science Museum (TOYA).
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 April 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)


TROY

Troy University Herbarium

The Troy University Herbarium (TROY) contains over 40,000 specimens of primarily vascular plants with a moderate collection of bryophytes and lichens. The herbarium includes plants from throughout the Southeastern United States, although those from south Alabama form the majority of the collection. The herbarium has an active role in education, research, and public service. Herbarium staff and graduate students assist in plant identifications and provide botanical information upon request. The herbarium is open to any visitor, professional or amateur, with a legitimate reason for consulting the collection. Although the herbarium is available for use most weekdays, calling in advance of visits is recommended. In addition to the collection of plant specimens, the herbarium houses a small library, emphasizing floras, systematic monographs, and nomenclatural references.

Contacts: Alvin Diamond, adiamond@troy.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4828e114-2749-498a-b344-eb5a7754b4f5
Digital Metadata: EML File


US

United States National Herbarium - Smithsonian

The United States National Herbarium was founded in 1848, when the first collections were accessioned from the United States Exploring Expedition (50,000 specimens of 10,000 species). Current holdings total 5 million specimens, making this collection among the ten largest in the world representing about 8% of the plant collection resources of the United States. The herbarium is especially rich in type specimens (@110,000).
Contacts: Chris Tuccinardi, US Herbarium data manager, tuccinar@si.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 October 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File


MT

Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre

The Institut de recherche en biologie végétale and its Biodiversity Centre are located within the Montreal Botanical Garden, one of the largest botanical gardens in the world. Product of a unique partnership between the Université de Montréal and the City of Montreal (Espace pour la vie Montréal), the IRBV is widely recognized as a centre of excellence whose mission is research and teaching of plant biology. Building upon this rewarding relationship, the Biodiversity Centre also strives for the highest research and educational standards, while raising public awareness of the importance of preserving and better understanding biodiversity.
Curator: Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, etienne.leveille-bourret@umontreal.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 September 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File


ALA

University of Alaska Museum of the North Herbarium

The Herbarium (ALA) contains more than 220,000 specimens of non-vascular and vascular plants and is the only major research herbarium in Alaska. The collection also includes plants from other states, Canada, Greenland, Fennoscandia, Japan, and Russia and provides a basis for teaching and research.
Contacts: Steffi M. Ickert-Bond, Curator, smickertbond@alaska.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File


UARK

University of Arkansas Herbarium - Bryophytes

Contacts: Jennifer Ogle, Collections Manager, jogle@uark.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1307081b-260f-4340-9349-13c45bff0b97
Digital Metadata: EML File


UBC

University of British Columbia Herbarium

The UBC bryophyte collection houses mosses, liverworts, and hornworts and is a tribute to the career of Dr. Wilf Schofield, who came to UBC in 1960. Professor Schofield was the first bryologist hired at a Canadian university. When he started at UBC, the collection included roughly 3,000 specimens. As a result of Dr. Schofield’s efforts and those of his students and post-doctoral researchers, the collection has grown to over 250,000 specimens, a considerable legacy. After his retirement, Dr. Schofield continued his research, up to the month before his passing in November 2008. He was such an avid collector that his specimens will continue to be processed and added to the collection for some time. - See more at: http://www.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/herbarium-bryophytes#sthash.pjK2COJK.dpuf

Contacts: G. Karen Golinski, Collections Curator, karen.golinski@botany.ubc.ca
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0903f894-e164-46ab-94f2-1c7350a628c8
Digital Metadata: EML File


UC

University of California, Berkeley, University Herbarium

data manager: Jason Alexander, jason_alexander@berkeley.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 February 2014
Digital Metadata: EML File


DAV-Bryophytes

University of California, Davis, Center for Plant Diversity - Bryophyte Herbarium

The DAV bryophyte collection is fully databased and "live", so Symbiota metadata represents all accessioned specimens. Most of our collection is from Northern California, with strong representation from the Western US. We house bryofloras of two University of California Reserve units: Stebbins Cold Canyon and Quail Ridge Reserves and from Henry Coe State Park (donated by John McLaughlin). Notable collectors: T.C. Frye (N. America), F.R. Fosberg (French Polynesia), G.H. Snodgrass (California) Jack Major (northern Alaska, arctic Canada and Antarctica), A.T. Whittemore (California), and S.P. Rae (California). Other notable collections include tardigrade host species, collected by D.S. Horning and colleagues of the Bohart Museum of Entomology in New Zealand, oceanic islands and Antarctica in the 1970's.

Curator: Alison Colwell, aelcolwell@ucdavis.edu, 530-752-1091
Collections Manager: Teri Barry, tcbarry@ucdavis.edu, 530-752-1091
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 13f36484-e8fd-4995-a82e-3d5309e45dbc
Digital Metadata: EML File


UCR-Bryophytes

University of California, Riverside Bryophytes

Curator: Andrew Sanders, Andrew.Sanders@ucr.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 June 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


FTU

University of Central Florida Herbarium

Established by President Trevor Colbourn in 1983, the UCF Arboretum began with approximately 12 acres (4.9 ha) of a disturbed pond pine (Pinus serotina) community just east side of the developed area of campus, and east of the present biology building. In 1988, at President Altman's direction, the University expanded the Arboretum to include a 5-acre (2.0 ha) Cypress dome, an oak hammock of about 3 acres (1.2 ha), and about 15 acres (6.1 ha) of sand pine and Florida scrub, connected to the original Arboretum by a saw palmetto (Sabal palmetto) community and increasingly rare Florida longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) flatwoods. Currently, the official Arboretum Boundary encompasses approximately 82 acres (33.2 ha). The original Arboretum director was Dr. Henry O. Whittier, a professor in the Biology Department who remained director until his retirement 2003. Dr. Martin Quigley was director from 2003-2009.
Contacts: Patrick Bohlen, Director, patrick.bohlen@ucf.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


CINC

University of Cincinnati, Margaret H. Fulford Herbarium - Bryophytes

The herbarium at the University of Cincinnati was founded by Margaret Fulford in 1920s and has grown over the years through the work of prolific collectors and through acquisition of several large and important collections. Today, the herbarium houses around 125,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, fungi, and algae, making it the third largest herbarium in Ohio. In addition to the large collection of regional and North American material, it also contains extensive collections from Europe, South America, the Caribbean Basin, Samoa, and China. Particular strengths of the herbarium are North American Sphagnum, South American and Caribbean Hepatics, North American Cladonia, and Trilliaceae.

Contacts: Eric Tepe, Assistant Professor, eric.tepe@uc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b07db383-76ea-4924-8d81-17e490b09152
Digital Metadata: EML File


COLO-B

University of Colorado, Museum of Natural History Herbarium Bryophyte Collection

Herbarium COLO is the Botany Section of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History on the Boulder campus. The Herbarium is available to anyone with an interest in botany. Users include faculty and students, visiting scholars, private consultants, local naturalists, and botanists from a variety of public and private agencies.

This dataset contains the North American portion of COLO Bryophyte collection. Approximately 50,000 specimens from the rest of the world have not been digitized.

No work has been done to georeference this collection. Any coordinates provided are from the collector's label and have not been verified.

Collection strengths: Colorado, Southern Rocky Mountains and Western North American vascular plants and cryptogams, worldwide arctic and alpine, Appalachia, Galapagos Lichens, Australia, New Guinea, Altai, Mexico and the Seville Flowers Bryophyte Collection.

Contacts: J Ryan Allen, james.r.allen@Colorado.EDU
Collection Manager: Dina Clark, dina.clark@colorado.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c861ca9b-2edf-47f4-ba05-989db6fa53b1
Digital Metadata: EML File


FLAS

University of Florida Herbarium - Bryophytes

The University of Florida Bryophyte Collection contains approximately 100,000 bryophyte specimens. The collection is worldwide in scope with an excellent representation of species from Florida and tropical areas such as Costa Rica, Venezuela and Brazil. Important collections include those of Dana G. Griffin, III (Florida, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia), Walter S. Judd, James B. McFarlin, Severin Rapp, and John K. Small. The University of Florida Herbarium is a unit of the Department of Natural History of the Florida Museum of Natural History. The herbarium is affiliated with the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Department of Biology and the Department of Plant Pathology. The FLAS acronym is the standard international abbreviation for the University of Florida Herbarium. It is derived from the herbarium's early association with the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. Our mission focuses on plant collections acquisition and care, research based on the collections, education and public service.

Contacts: Alan R. Franck, francka@ufl.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b9ff7774-4a5d-47af-a2ea-bdf3ecc78885
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Florida
Access Rights: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/about-us/overview/copyright-notice/


ILL

University of Illinois Herbarium

Specialty: Illinois, midwestern U.S., Apiaceae, Asteraceae, Fabaceae: Mimosoideas, fossils of Pennsylvanian age coal balls, fungi (especially Meliolales: Ascomycetes and resupinate Basidiomycetes), 19th and early 20th century exsiccatae.

Date Founded: 1869.
Contacts: Andrew Miller, amiller7@illinois.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 July 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


MAINE

University of Maine Herbaria

The University of Maine Herbaria are organized, identified collections of authentic specimens of primarily Maine plants and fungi. The University of Maine Herbaria are located in Hannibal Hamlin Hall on the campus of the University of Maine. The mission of the University of Maine Herbaria includes research, teaching, and service to the public, the State of Maine, plus professional and amateur botanists.
Contacts: Christopher Campbell, Director, campbell@maine.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 61c6a5e7-a325-44c5-a6bd-0ddbe20fc92a
Digital Metadata: EML File


MICH

University of Michigan Herbarium

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: Alison Harrington, alisonhh@umich.edu
Contacts: Loan requests, MICH-inquiry@umich.edu
Contacts: Data corrections/updates, umherb-data@umich.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File


MISS-Bryophytes

University of Mississippi, Thomas M. Pullen Herbarium

The Pullen Herbarium (MISS) collection consists of over 75,000 vascular plant specimens, as well as non vascular plants, slime molds and fungi. With funding from the National Science Foundation , the collection is now housed in new cabinets on a compactor system and the specimen data has been entered into a searchable database. All accessioned specimens have been imaged and are currently being linked to our heritage database.
Contacts: Lucile McCook, Curator, bymccook@olemiss.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1a65a4cd-7c8f-4d84-82b2-156016c6117a
Digital Metadata: EML File


MONTU

University of Montana Bryophyte Collection

Bryophytes of Montana
Curator/Collections Manager: Giovanna Bishop, giovanna.bishop@umontana.edu, 15033101986
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File


NEBK

University of Nebraska Kearney

Contacts: Steve Rothenberger, Curator, rothenberges@unk.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8f55419f-f5d8-4f72-b877-6b9be646cfe6
Digital Metadata: EML File


NEB

University of Nebraska State Museum, C.E. Bessey Herbarium - Bryophytes

The Bessey Herbarium was founded in 1874, making it among the oldest in the Great Plains states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The collection has more than 310,000 specimens, placing it among the largest in the Great Plains. The largest parts of the collection are, in descending order, from Nebraska, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, other parts of North America, and Europe. It contains important collections by such scientifically notable Nebraskans as Charles Bessey, Ernst Bessey, Frederic Clements, Walter Kiener, Per Rydberg, Raymond Pool, Jared G. Smith; by other Nebraskans who later became prominent in other fields, such as Roscoe Pound (Law), Louise Pound (Literature), Willa Cather (Literature), Melvin Gilmore (Ethnobotany), Lawrence Bruner (Entomology) and Henry Baldwin Ward (Parasitology); and by many prominent scientists from outside the state.

Contacts: Thomas Labedz, tlabedz1@unl.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0645b78a-a185-484b-8c60-c6c275a6a41a
Digital Metadata: EML File


NHA

University of New Hampshire

Historical ties with Dartmouth College (HNH) when the Agricultural College shared facilities. NHA founded with a nucleus of 1500 HNH specimens. Specialty: Vascular plants and marine algae of New Hampshire; Maine; coastal New England; Newfoundland; Bay of Fundy; Crimea, Siberia; aquatic flora of northeastern U.S., Costa Rica, and Bolivia. Date Founded: 1892.
Contacts: Erin Sigel, collections manager, erin.sigel@unh.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1dd94513-99f3-4c46-b707-694fedf34793
Digital Metadata: EML File


UNM-Bryophytes

University of New Mexico

The Museum of Southwestern Biology houses New Mexico’s largest herbarium. An herbarium is a collection of preserved plants stored, catalogued, and arranged for study by professionals and amateurs from many walks of life. Our focus is mainly to document and preserve a record of the flora of the state. We have 130,000 specimens; most are from New Mexico and the southwestern U.S. Our primary international holdings are from Mexico. As the fifth largest state we are relatively unexplored and species new to science are still being discovered, documented, and described. Our specimens represent over 7700 species and serve as a reference for what’s been documented within our region.
Additional UNM Collections:
Lichen Collection within the CNALH Portal
Mycological Collection within the MycoPortal
Vascular Plant Collection within SEINet
Collections Manager: Harpo Faust, harpofaust@unm.edu
Curator: Hannah Marx, hmarx@unm.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 62fc6014-2dc5-45a9-b36d-c496224654c2
Digital Metadata: EML File


UNAF

University of North Alabama

Contacts: Paul Davison, Curator, pgdavison@una.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8e01d40b-ed7f-47d3-a35a-e5bad8693e94
Digital Metadata: EML File


UNCA

University of North Carolina at Asheville

The bryophyte collection at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA) houses approximately 500 collections of bryophytes. Most of these collections were made in the 1960's by James D. Perry, previous herbarium curator, and most were made in the Southern Appalachians. There are also about 2000 lichen collections from the same region.
Contacts: David Clarke, dclarke@unca.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 24bc18ef-bbb1-4755-82de-81edc684bd21
Digital Metadata: EML File


NCU-Bryophytes

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium: Bryophytes

The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) is a Department within the North Carolina Botanical Garden of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. NCU curates vascular plants, macroalgae, lichens, bryophytes, plant fossils, and fungi. NCU, located in the center of the UNC-CH campus, welcomes visitors & researchers; contact Curator for information on hours & parking. STATEMENT ON OFFENSIVE CONTENT ON SPECIMEN LABELS: Collection records at NCU may contain language that reflects historical place or taxon names in an original form that is no longer acceptable or appropriate in an inclusive environment. Because NCU preserves data in their original form to retain authenticity and facilitate research, we have chosen to facilitate conversations and are committed to address the problem of racial, derogatory and demeaning language that may be found in our database. Insensitive or offensive language is not condoned by NCU. We recognize the land and sovereignty of Native & Indigenous nations in Chapel Hill, in North Carolina, in North America, and across the world. The North Carolina Botanical Garden and the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation acknowledge that the story told about the history of the land we steward has been incomplete. Before the Morgans and Masons, these lands were home to multiple tribes and the ancestors of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, who persist locally to this day. We recognize that at least one of the adjacent lands we steward, Mason Farm Biological Reserve, was first cleared, cultivated, and worked by Native Americans and later by African enslaved people. We invite you to reflect on our individual and community roles in knowing important and untold stories about the land we each steward.

Herbarium Curatrix: Carol Ann McCormick, mccormick@unc.edu, +1-919-962-6931
Herbarium Director: Alan Weakley, weakley@unc.edu, +1-919-962-0522
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3975944d-30b4-4225-a3c2-528cefd9c348
Digital Metadata: EML File


URV

University of Richmond Herbarium

University of Richmond Herbarium (known in the botanical community by the acronym URV) features nearly 20,000 specimens, including 2,000 specimens of Algae, 1,450 specimens of Lichens, 1,400 specimens of Myxomycetes, 1,000 specimens of Fungi, 450 specimens of Bryophytes and 15,000 specimens of Vascular plants. The collection is accessible to students studying botany.
Contacts: Dr. W. John Hayden, jhayden@richmond.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


USCH

University of South Carolina, A. C. Moore Herbarium Bryophyte Collection

The A. C. Moore Herbarium is an important part of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina (Columbia Campus). Founded in 1907 by Dr. Andrew Charles Moore, the original collection of dried plant specimens is now part of an ever-growing collection. Total holdings are just over 120,000 specimens, making the A. C. Moore Herbarium the largest in the state of South Carolina. Researchers and visitors will find a diverse collection of vascular and nonvascular plant material primarily from the Southeastern United States and more specifically from South Carolina. Now over 100 years old, the A. C. Moore Herbarium continues to be an indispensable resource for botanical knowledge.

Herbarium Curator: Herrick Brown, hbrown@mailbox.sc.edu, +1-803-777-8175
GIS Specialist: Csilla Czako, czakoc@dnr.sc.gov
Assistant Collections Manager: Avery Browning, averyob@mailbox.sc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 65d9b6c9-590a-4589-94fa-68c025333f6a
Digital Metadata: EML File


USF

University of South Florida Herbarium

The USF Herbarium, with over 270,000 specimens, is the second largest collection in Florida, the seventh largest in the southeastern United States, and ranks in the upper third of the world's herbaria in size.
Contacts: Diane Te Strake, testrake@usf.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


USMS

University of Southern Mississippi Herbarium, Bryophytes

Slime molds, fungi, algae, lichens, bryophytes, and vascular plants, primarily from the southeastern United States.
Curator: Mac Alford, Mac.Alford@usm.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: dc533021-76e4-409f-8bd9-ad8532b52b04
Digital Metadata: EML File


TENN

University of Tennessee Bryophyte Herbarium

The collection houses over 183,000 filed specimens from throughout the World with a strong emphasis on North America, specifically the Southeast U.S., Pacific Northwest, and Alaska; Mexico; and Asia.

Collections Manager: Margaret Oliver, molive18@utk.edu
Herbarium Director & Bryophytes Curator: Dr. Jessica Budke, jbudke@utk.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 71114e0e-7241-42da-9b87-80c4a0de5282
Digital Metadata: EML File


VT

University of Vermont, Pringle Herbarium, North American bryophytes

The Pringle Herbarium (VT) contains 300,000 specimens, including vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, algae and fungi. This portal contains our North American bryophyte specimens, numbering about 18,000. Other digitization projects cover type specimens, vascular plant specimens, North American lichens, macroalgae and macrofungi. These images and data are available through various portals. The herbarium does not maintain its own online database.
Contacts: David S. Barrington, dbarring@uvm.edu
Curator: Weston L. Testo, wtesto@uvm.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d004c634-c136-4555-a8e5-eb1a4de11586
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Vermont


WTU-Bryophytes

University of Washington Herbarium

The University of Washington Herbarium (also known as WTU) is an international resource for research into the diversity, distribution and ecology of Pacific Northwest vascular plants, non-vascular plants, fungi, lichen, and algae. With over 600,000 specimens currently in the collections and between 5,000-10,000 specimens added annually, WTU is one of the largest herbaria in the region.
Contacts: David Giblin, Collections Manager, wtu@u.washington.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File

University of Washington Herbarium - temp

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 April 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File


UWEC

University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Bryophyte Collection

The UWEC Herbarium contains over 10,000 specimens, mostly from west-central Wisconsin.
Contacts: Joseph Rohrer, Curator, jrohrer@uwec.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


WIS

University of Wisconsin - Madison

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbarium, founded in 1849, is a museum collection of dried, labeled plants of state, national and international importance, which is used extensively for taxonomic and ecological research, as well as for teaching and public service. It contains the world's largest collection of Wisconsin plants, about one-third of its 1,000,000 specimens having been collected within the state. Most of the world's floras are well represented, and the holdings from certain areas, such as the Upper Midwest, eastern North America and western Mexico, are widely recognized as resources of global significance.
Contacts: Kenneth M. Cameron, kmcameron@wisc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 604e38c8-372e-4e95-a520-17ea991a7d0e
Digital Metadata: EML File


RM

University of Wyoming Rocky Mountain Herbarium

Founded in 1893 by Aven Nelson, the Rocky Mountain Herbarium (RM) contains the largest collection of Rocky Mountain plants and fungi in existence with additional representation of the floras of other parts of the Northern Hemisphere. It ranks 17th in the nation with 825,000 specimens and is the largest facility of its kind between St. Louis, Missouri, and Berkeley, California.
Contacts: Dr. Ron Hartman, Curator, rhartman@uwyo.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File


VSC

Valdosta State University - Bryophytes

The Valdosta State University Herbarium (VSC) provides a repository for the preservation of voucher specimens that document the flora of the Coastal Plain region of Georgia and specimens from a broader geographical area that might be useful in the study of the flora of this region and that enable specialized research on particular groups of plants carried out by faculty and students in residence at Valdosta State University and by taxonomic specialists at other institutions. VSC also provides specimens for use in teaching, and its staff responds to requests from the general public, natural resource managers, agricultural scientists, and others by providing information about plants and service determinations of unknown plants and, where appropriate, preserving vouchers relating to such.

Contacts: J. Richard Carter, Jr. Curator, rcarter@valdosta.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8597eef0-025d-4213-a346-403051ecb406
Digital Metadata: EML File


WWC-NVLP

Warren Wilson Herbarium

Contacts: Amy Boyd, aboyd@warren-wilson.edu, 828-771-2018
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6d3fb895-c2ba-4eea-9b43-f2a2affc9f6e
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Warren Wilson College


WS

Washington State University Marion Ownbey Herbarium - Bryophytes

The Marion Ownbey Herbarium (WS) is a collection of nearly 400,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens.  The herbarium includes plants from around the world, with an emphasis on species from the Inland Pacific Northwest, Northern Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, and California.

Herbarium Director: Eric Roalson, eric_roalson@wsu.edu, 509-335-7921 (ORCID #: 0000-0003-1655-3681)
Collections Manager: Walter Fertig, walter.fertig@wsu.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0001-9112-1745)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6847c323-7104-4990-8122-1defd8d997d1
Digital Metadata: EML File


WSCO

Weber State University Herbarium

Collection estimated to be 29,080 specimens of vascular and nonvascular specimens.
Contacts: James Cohen, jamescohen@weber.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 11ede14a-a626-492f-a1c2-a510654128ea
Digital Metadata: EML File


WVHP

West Virginia Natural Heritage Program Herbarium - Bryophytes

The West Virginia Natural Heritage Program Herbarium was founded in 1988 as a reference collection to supplement the work of WV Natural Heritage researchers. Through donations and exchanges, the collections span from the 1890s to present day and consist mainly of vascular plants but includes lichens and bryophytes, all primarily from West Virginia.

State Botanist: John Burkhart, john.q.burkhart@wv.gov
Associate Ecologist & Data Manager: Brian Streets, Brian.P.Streets@wv.gov
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 11759dba-2ae7-497d-beba-7ad524755ad5
Digital Metadata: EML File


WVA

West Virginia University Herbarium - Bryophytes

The West Virginia University Herbarium, the largest such facility in the state, contains about 185,000 mounted and cataloged vascular plant specimens and approximately 26,000 bryophyte and lichen specimens. The collection was started in 1889 and has steadily increased since then. It is designated a National Resource Collection and contains the best collection in the world of West Virginia and Central Appalachian vascular plants. In addition there are over 25,000 color photographic slides that comprise the Earl L. Core Botanical Slide Collection and over 2,000 seed collections in the Elizabeth A. Bartholomew Seed Collection.

Contacts: Donna Ford-Werntz, Curator, dford2@wvu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d5692221-f761-4082-9c25-97dd1f10adc6
Digital Metadata: EML File


WCUH-Bryophytes

Western Carolina University Herbarium, Bryophytes

Director and Curator: Dr. Katherine Matthews, kmathews@email.wcu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 23 June 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File


MU

Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium, Miami University

Miami University is the home of Ohio's largest herbarium, the Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium. The herbarium's holdings of approximately 620,000 specimens are worldwide in both geographical and taxonomic coverage. The collection consists of 330,000 vascular plant specimens, as well as 140,000 bryophytes, 100,000 fungi, 35,000 lichens, 10,000 algae, and 5,000 fossil plants. There are several thousand type specimens contained in the collection, as well as many sets of cryptogamic exsiccatae. Active exchange programs are ongoing with many herbaria worldwide to ensure the continued breadth and depth of the collection. The W.S. Turrell Herbarium Fund is an endowment which benefits the herbarium, and is restricted to support of the research activities of the staff and students in systematic botany.
Curator: Gretchen Meier, meierga@miamioh.edu, (513) 529-2755
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 952c9687-c3e5-428d-877c-ec1a0f64ba83
Digital Metadata: EML File


UCSC

William T. Doyle Bryophyte Herbarium at University of California Santa Cruz

The Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History is dedicated to cultivating natural history skills for students of all ages, fostering each student's passion for the natural world, and supporting natural history research that serves as the basis for understanding the complex and rapidly changing ecosystems around us.

Contacts: Ken Kellman, kkellman@ucsc.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 228ad3ae-bebc-46ce-a468-ad36f33b273d
Digital Metadata: EML File


YPM-YU

Yale University Herbarium, Peabody Museum of Natural History

Founded in 1864 by Daniel Cady Eaton from his personal library and plant collection, the Yale Herbarium is an internationally recognized repository with holdings of approximately 350,000 specimens from throughout the world. There are an estimated 3,000 type specimens. The collection is particularly rich in ferns, bryophytes and grasses, as well as in historically important materials from early botanical collectors. In addition, it was the herbarium of record for the flora of southern New England from 1864 until 1955, when that function passed to the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
Contacts: Patrick Sweeney, PhD, patrick.sweeney@yale.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 April 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Access Rights: Open Access, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; see Yale Peabody policies at: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/8931zqj

Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park Herbarium is a significant regional collection dating from the early part of the 20th century to the present with the bulk of specimens dating from the 1920s to the 1960s. The bryophyte collection was acquired primarily between 2004-2012 for the "Yosemite Bryoflora Project" headed by Jim Shevock, assisted by collectors Alison Colwell and Martin Hutten. Most specimen identifications were made by Jim Shevock, David Toren, Bill Doyle, and Martin Hutten. This is an actively growing herbarium. The herbarium is a valuable component of the park's museum collections and is an essential tool for resource management: fire management, exotics programs, and vegetation management. It is also a valuable source of information to the scientific community about Yosemite's complex flora. Access to the collections is granted to researchers by advance appointment.
Contacts: Laura Bender, laura_bender@nps.gov
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 61a9363e-e800-4064-b7ba-7c8e1fe86834
Digital Metadata: EML File