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
  • Aa (1)
  • Anacamptis (3)
  • Bletia (1)
  • Brachionidium (1)
  • Brassia (1)
  • Calanthe (3)
  • Calopogon (1)
  • Calypso (10)
  • Cephalanthera (8)
  • Chloraea (1)
  • Chondroscaphe (1)
  • Coeloglossum (1)
  • Corallorhiza (45)
  • Cranichis (2)
  • Cyclopogon (3)
  • Cypripedium (15)
  • Dactylorhiza (1)
  • Dichaea (9)
  • Dipodium (1)
  • Elleanthus (10)
  • Epidendrum (22)
  • Epipactis (41)
  • Erythrodes (5)
  • Goodyera (18)
  • Govenia (2)
  • Gymnadenia (1)
  • Habenaria (10)
  • Isochilus (1)
  • Lepanthes (3)
  • Listera (13)
  • Lockhartia (3)
  • Malaxis (1)
  • Maxillaria (8)
  • Myoxanthus (4)
  • Nigritella (1)
  • Oberonia (2)
  • Odontoglossum (2)
  • Oncidium (22)
  • Ophrys (1)
  • Orchis (1)
  • Phragmipedium (1)
  • Piperia (35)
  • Platanthera (125)
  • Pleurothallis (20)
  • Polystachya (1)
  • Porphyrostachys (1)
  • Prosthechea (1)
  • Pseudorchis (1)
  • Psygmorchis (1)
  • Pterostylis (1)
  • Rhynchostele (2)
  • Rodriguezia (3)
  • Scaphyglottis (1)
  • Sobralia (8)
  • Spathoglottis (1)
  • Spiranthes (38)
  • Stelis (15)
  • Trichopilia (1)
  • Xylobium (6)
  • Zeuxine (1)