University of California at Davis Herbarium (DAV)

University of California, Davis herbarium collections are worldwide, with emphasis on California, North America, and neotropics (especially Ecuador and Baja California); Quercus, Fagaceae, and Arctostaphylos, Ericaceae of New World; Euphorbiaceae; Poaceae; Clarkia (Onagraceae); Lycianthes and Lycopersicon (Solanaceae); Stephanomeria and tarweed genera (Asteraceae); Navarretia (Polemoniaceae); Allium (Alliaceae); Trifolium (Fabaceae);Prunus (Rosaceae); Central Valley of California vernal pool species; weedy and poisonous species of California and Mediterranean-climate regions; range plants of California; alpine flora of western North America. Size of collection: 320,000 specimens, 50% from California.

Director: Dan Potter, dpotter@ucdavis.edu
Curator: Alison Colwell, aelcolwell@ucdavis.edu
Collections Manager: Teri Barry, tcbarry@ucdavis.edu
Emeritus Curator: Ellen Dean, eadean@ucdavis.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 18 May 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/data_use_terms.html
Address:
Center for Plant Diversity; Department of Plant Sciences MS#7
University of California
1 Shields Ave.
Davis, CA   95616-8780
U.S.A.
(530) 752-1091
Collection Statistics
  • 141,736 specimen records
  • 115,648 (82%) georeferenced
  • 79,727 (56%) with images (80,045 total images)
  • 133,898 (94%) identified to species
  • 357 families
  • 3,102 genera
  • 12,342 species
  • 14,922 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthomintha (18)
  • Agastache (55)
  • Ajuga (8)
  • Ballota (4)
  • Blephilia (2)
  • Brazoria (2)
  • Callicarpa (5)
  • Cedronella (1)
  • Clinopodium (25)
  • Colebrookea (1)
  • Condea (21)
  • Conradina (2)
  • Elsholtzia (1)
  • Eriope (2)
  • Galeopsis (2)
  • Glechoma (6)
  • Hedeoma (27)
  • Holmskioldia (1)
  • Horminum (1)
  • Hyptis (28)
  • Hyssopus (1)
  • Isanthus (2)
  • Lamium (59)
  • Lavandula (6)
  • Leonotis (3)
  • Leonurus (5)
  • Lepechinia (51)
  • Leucas (1)
  • Lycopus (37)
  • Marrubium (64)
  • Marsypianthes (1)
  • Melissa (14)
  • Mentha (147)
  • Micromeria (7)
  • Minthostachys (2)
  • Monarda (25)
  • Monardella (284)
  • Nepeta (9)
  • Ocimum (7)
  • Origanum (12)
  • Perilla (3)
  • Perovskia (1)
  • Phlomis (2)
  • Physostegia (4)
  • Plectranthus (5)
  • Pogogyne (131)
  • Poliomintha (1)
  • Prasium (3)
  • Prostanthera (1)
  • Prunella (76)
  • Pycnanthemum (7)
  • Rosmarinus (5)
  • Rotheca (1)
  • Salazaria (1)
  • Salvia (367)
  • Satureja (2)
  • Scutellaria (178)
  • Sideritis (2)
  • Stachys (265)
  • Teucrium (20)
  • Thymbra (3)
  • Thymus (5)
  • Trichostema (177)
  • Vitex (2)
  • Warnockia (3)