Consortium of Intermountain Herbaria Collections

The Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium is the second largest in the Arid Southwest with over 285,000 specimens. Our collection of Cactaceae is one of the best in the world, being particularly rich in cytological vouchers.

Contact: Leslie Landrum (les.landrum<at>asu.edu)

Home Page: http://lifesciences.asu.edu/herbarium/

Contact: Cecile Lumer (cecile<at>cochisecountyherbarium.org)

Home Page: http://www.cochisecountyherbarium.org/

Number of Specimens: 105 000 Specialty: Colorado Plateau, especially northern Arizona; northeastern Mojave Desert; northern Arizona National Parks and Monuments; vascular plants of the San Francisco Peaks and Coconino National Forest. Important Collections: M. Baker; R. E. Collom; C. F. Deaver; D. Demaree; R. K. Gierisch; L. N. Goodding; H. D. Hammond; R. H. Hevly; M. E. Jones; T. H. Kearney; Max Licher; E. L. Little, Jr.; V. O. Mayes; A. M. Phillips; G. R. Rink; C. G. Schaack; J. J. Thornber; A. F. Whiting Incorporated Herbaria: FSLF (1000 specimens) in 1989. Notes: Name for Arizona State College changed to Northern Arizona University in 1966. ASC fungi transferred to MICH in 1998. ASC is temporarily housing NAVA, until the Navajo Natural Heritage builds a new building. Date Founded: 1930.

Contact: Tina Ayers (tina.ayers<at>nau.edu & deaver.herbarium<at>nau.edu)

Home Page: http://nau.edu/Merriam-Powell/Biodiversity-Center/Deaver-Herbarium/

Approximately 70000 specimens in collection, with emphasis on plants of the Southwest and northern Mexico, Cactaceae and Agavaceae. Ca 72% of collection is in SEINet, not figure given below.

Contact: Wendy C. Hodgson (whodgson<at>dbg.org)

Home Page: http://www.dbg.org/

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Museum Collection Herbarium of the Grand Canyon National Park, P.O. Box 129, Grand Canyon, Arizona 86023-0129, U.S.A., (928) 638-7769

Contact: Colleen Hyde (grca_museum_collection<at>nps.gov)

Home Page: http://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm

Walter B. McDougall Herbarium
Museum of Northern Arizona
3101 North Fort Valley Road
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
U.S.A.

Index Herbariorum

Contact: Janet Gillette (jgillette<at>mna.mus.az.us)

Home Page: http://www.musnaz.org

Contact: Andrea Hazelton (ahazelton<at>nndfw.org)

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The Southwestern Research Station aspires to add to the existing diversity and strengths of the American Museum of Natural History by providing scientists and educators from the Museum and other institutions across the country and around the world the opportunity to participate in research, workshops, and classes in one of the most biologically rich environments in the United States. The Station seeks to face the challenges of the future by promoting knowledge and understanding of our ever changing world and by evolving to meet the current needs of individuals and groups that strive to conserve the world’s biodiversity – all through the benefits of an outdoor laboratory that enhances research and education.

Contact: Marilyn Loveless (MLOVELESS<at>wooster.edu)

Home Page: http://research.amnh.org/swrs/

Contact: ARIZ Herbarium (herbarium<at>ag.arizona.edu)

Home Page: http://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/

Contact: Elizabeth Makings (elizabeth.makings<at>asu.edu)

Home Page: http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/

Contact: Patricia Fall (fall<at>asu.edu)

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Contact: Patricia Fall (fall<at>asu.edu)

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Emeritus Professor James E. Canright (1920-2008) was the plant anatomist in the Department of Botany (and later the Deptartment of Botany & Microbiology) at ASU from 1964 to 1985. During his tenure Canright amassed a large collection of plant slide materials including wood anatomy, pollen reference slides and many samples of plant morphology and anatomy. In addition to commercially purchased prepared slides, Canright and his students prepared many of their own microscope slides of plant materials. Additional specimens were gifts from other institutions and collectors. Additional plant morphology and anatomy specimens to be included in this material include anatomical slides from Emeritus Professor Donald J. Pinkava, Director of the Vascular Plant Herbarium, the Pine Cone, Fruit and Seed Collections of paleobotanist Jack A. Wolfe, and other materials collected since. We are in the process of organizing these materials: lists and associated photos will be included on this page in the future.

Contact: Kathleen Pigg (kpigg<at>asu.edu)

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Contact: Darren A. Pollock (darren.pollock<at>enmu.edu)

Home Page: http://www.enmu.edu/services/museums/natural-history/

Contact: William R. Norris (norrisw<at>pyrite.wnmu.edu)

Home Page: http://www.wnmu.edu/academic/nspages2/gilacenter.htm

Contact: C. Donovan Bailey, Curator (dbailey<at>nmsu.edu)

Home Page: http://biology-web.nmsu.edu/herbarium/

Contact: Michael Sweeney (msweeney<at>nmsu.edu)

Home Page: http://aces.nmsu.edu/academics/rangescienceherbarium/

Specialty: Vascular flora of Four Corners area, San Juan Drainage; Fabaceae; Polygonaceae; Cactaceae; Orchidaceae; Cyperaceae.

Contact: Kenneth Heil, Director (Heil<at>sjc.cc.nm.us)

Home Page: http://www.sanjuancollege.edu/pages/425.asp

Contact: Timothy K. Lowrey (tlowrey<at>unm.edu)

Home Page: http://www.msb.unm.edu/herbarium/

The Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition’s Herbarium specializes in the vascular plants of Nevada with particular emphasis on the Mojave and Great Basin Deserts.

Contact: Greg Gust (ggust<at>envlc.org)

Home Page: http://www.envlc.org/

Vascular Plants

Contact: Leigh Johnson (leigh_johnson<at>byu.edu)

Home Page: http://mlbean.byu.edu/ResearchCollections/Collections/VascularPlants.aspx

Records in this database are of the vascular plants in the Intermountain Herbarium. Records for fungi, lichens and bryophytes are now being posted to the taxon-specific networks. The geographic focus of the Intermountain Herbarium is the Intermountain Region of western North America but its holdings come from many different countries. It even has one or more specimens from each of the seven continents. The collection is particularly rich in grasses, including voucher specimens of plants, including hybrids, grown by the late D.R. Dewey.

Contact: Mary E. Barkworth (mary.barkworth<at>usu.edu)

Home Page: http://herbarium.usu.edu/default.htm

Shrubs are the dominant form of plant life on vast areas of North America, as well as on other continents. Shrub dominance is a consequence of major climatic and geologic patterns. Approximately 548,000 square miles (142 million hectares) of the western United States are characterized by shrubland dominance. Sizable additional areas classified as forests, woodlands, grasslands, or riparian corridors include an important shrub component. Despite the large size of these shrub-dominated ecosystems, they are often poorly understood and frequently abused as a natural resource. Research is needed to better understand and manage these plant communities and their associated biota.

The Provo Shrub Sciences Lab is located in Provo, Utah near the Brigham Young University campus. As part of the Grassland, Shrubland and Desert Ecosystems Program in the Rocky Mountain Research Station, scientists conduct original research and collaborate with researchers and managers from private and public universities and state, federal, and foreign agencies on aspects of shrub and shrubland biology, ecology, and management. Research focus areas are inter-related and address challenges to shrubland conservation and management under the over-arching realities of a changing world.

Contact: Stewart Sanderson (ssanderson<at>fs.fed.us)

Home Page: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/provo

Snow College is the only Utah Community College to be ranked among the top ten percent of US community colleges. Its herbarium, which has about 6,000 specimens, was founded in 1940. Most are from Sanpete County, Utah, and adjacent areas.

Contact: Luis Gordillo (luis.gordillo<at>snow.edu)

Home Page: http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/collection/view/id/15460

The geographic focus of Southern Utah University's Herbarium (SUU) is the southwestern Great Basin region. As a biologically diverse area that lies at the junction of four ecosystems (Central and Mohave Basins as well as Wasatch and Colorado Plateaus), the approximately 8000 current specimens mirror an array of ecological and economical changes that have occurred in the southern Basin. In addition to historical documentation, specimens housed in the SUU Herbarium serve as a teaching tool for our students. The SUU Herbarium is also the official repository for Parashant National Monument (National Park Service).

Contact: Terri Hildebrand (terri.hildebrand<at>suu.edu)

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The Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter consists of a LEED Platinum nature education center and a 1200 acre nature preserve that is protected in perpetuity. The collection currently consists of just over 500 specimen primarily collected on the preserve and in Summit County, UT.

Contact: Nell Larson (nell.larson<at>usu.edu)

Home Page: www.swanerecocenter.org

USU-Eastern, formerly known as the College of Eastern Utah, became a branch campus of Utah State University in 2010. Its herbarium's emphasis is on the flora of Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah. USU-Eastern offers associate degrees in arts, science, and applied science and facilitates transfers to the state’s four year institutions.

Contact: Jerry Anderson (Jerry.Anderson<at>ceu.edu)

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The herbarium of the Uintah Basin campus of Utah State University (USUUB) contains about 7500 specimens, all of them vascular plants and most of them collected by Dr. Sherel Goodrich, a botanist with the Ashley District of the US Forest Service who retired in December, 2011. Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Lorin Squires and support by Dr. Goodrich, the Forest Service agreed to transfer the specimens collected by Goodrich to the Uintah Basin campus where they will be available to help those in the area become familiar with and interested in studying the region’s distinctive flora.

Contact: Shana Geffeney (shana.geffeney<at>usu.edu)

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The Utah Valley University Herbarium (UVSC, http://herbarium.uvu.edu) was established in 1987 as a research and teaching facility. The initial herbarium collection consisted of botanical specimens collected by Dr. James G. Harris, Professor of Biology, whose research focuses on a wide range of habitats including the deserts of the San Rafael Swell, high elevation mountain peaks (i.e. Mt. Timpanogos, Mt. Nebo, and the Deep Creek Range), as well as arctic regions of North America and Greenland. Currently the herbarium houses over 17,000 accessioned herbarium sheets, with an average of 1,500 specimens being added to the collection each year. The current curator, Dr. Jason A. Alexander, is a specialist in desert floras, specifically the Mojave Desert and the Great Basin, and the genus Astragalus (milkvetches) in the family Fabaceae.

Contact: Jason Alexander (ALEXANJA<at>uvu.edu)

Home Page: http://herbarium.uvu.edu

The Bitterroot National Forest herbarium contains specimens from across western Montana and eastern Idaho including Missoula, Mineral, Ravalli, Flathead, Stillwater and Shoshone counties. With specimens dating back to the early 1900’s, the BNF herbarium’s collection not only demonstrates the rich history of the area but the broad habitats encompassed by this forest. The Bitterroot National Forest continues to add to its collections and make collection information readily available for collaborative use.

Contact: Taylor-Davenport, Robin M -FS (robintaylordavenport<at>fs.fed.us)

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The Walter Almond Kelley herbarium at Colorado Mesa University contains over 5,000 specimens, primarily from western Colorado and eastern Utah. It was founded in 1978.

Contact: Stephen Stern (sstern<at>coloradomesa.edu)

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Contact: Jennifer Ackerfield (jrowens<at>lamar.colostate.edu)

Home Page: http://herbarium.biology.colostate.edu/index.htm

Colorado State University-Pueblo has a small herbarium housed within the Life Science Building. Our collection focuses on the Flora of Southeastern Colorado, including good representation of the Wet Mountains, Pueblo County, and the Spanish Peaks.

Contact: Brian Vanden Heuvel (brian.vandenheuvel [at] colostate-pueblo.edu)

Home Page: http://faculty.colostate-pueblo.edu/brian.vandenheuvel/index_files/Page541.htm

The Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium (KHD), a collection of over 49,000 vascular plant specimens, is a regional herbarium with a research focus on the species diversity of Colorado and the Southern Rocky Mountain region. The collection also contains species from other areas of the Southwest and those species that are in cultivation at Denver Botanic Gardens. Many specimens within the collection have been digitized and their photographs may be found online. Higher resolution images are also available upon request.

Contact: Melissa Islam, Head Curator (melissa.islam<at>botanicgardens.org)

Home Page: http://www.botanicgardens.org/content/kathryn-kalmbach-herbarium

The Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Herbarium in Colorado contains a nearly complete record of all the flora found within our 6,000 acre boundaries. The Herbarium has been vouchered by William A. Weber, Professor and Curator Emeritus of the Herbarium, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.

Contact: Conni J. O'Connor (conni_o'connor<at>nps.gov)

Home Page: http://www.nps.gov/flfo/index.htm

Specialty of the collection is the vascular flora of southwestern Colorado, especially the San Juan Mountains.

Contact: Ross McCauley, Curator (mccauley_r<at>fortlewis.edu)

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Contact: Sherman, Susan (Susan.Sherman<at>trinidadstate.edu)

Home Page: http://www.trinidadstate.edu/

Vascular Plants curated within the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory herbarium

Contact: C.F. Rick Williams, Curator (willcha2<at>isu.edu)

Home Page: http://rmbl.org/rockymountainbiolab/

Western slope of Colorado Rocky Mountains, including bryophytes and lichens.

Contact: Robin Bingham, Curator (rbingham<at>western.edu)

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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 [with approximately 25,000 new specimens added each year] and is the largest facility of its kind between St. Louis, Missouri, and Berkeley, California

Contact: Ronald L. Hartman (rhartman<at>uwyo.edu)

Home Page: http://www.rmh.uwyo.edu/

The Huntington Botanical Gardens Herbarium (HNT) was founded in the 1960’s by Myron Kimnach, director of the botanical gardens from 1962 to 1986. It is a depository of mostly exotic plant specimens used in research and teaching. The purpose of these specimens is to serve as voucher documentation for research projects, and as resources for plant identification. With over 10,000 specimens, it is an archive of vascular plants from around the world, with particular emphasis on plants from Mexico, Central America and South America. Important collections include those of F. Boutin, J. P. Folsom, D. R. Hodel, D. de Laubenfels, M. Kimnach and R. Moran. Plant families well-represented include Arecaceae, Cactaceae, Crassulaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and desert plants worldwide. In addition, the herbarium receives and provides loans of plant specimens used in active systematic research.

Contact: Tim Thibault (tthibault<at>huntington.org)

Home Page: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=9002&terms=herbarium

Specialty: Vascular plants of coastal regions from San Francisco Bay to southern Oregon; Napa County, California; Klamath Mountains; Arizona; Nevada.
Date Founded: 1967.

Contact: Gilbert Muth, Director and Curator (gmuth<at>puc.edu)

Home Page: http://www.puc.edu/Faculty/Gilbert_Muth/napa.htm

Contact: Andrew Sanders (Andrew.Sanders<at>ucr.edu)

Home Page: http://www.herbarium.ucr.edu/Herbarium.html

The R.M. Myers Herbarium contains more than 75,000 specimens, of which most are from western Illinois or southeastern Iowa. We hold a major collection of moss specimens from western Illinois, as well as a set of Opuntia fragilis specimens that document most areas where it grows in the midwest.

Contact: Eric Ribbens (e-ribbens<at>wiu.edu)

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Contact: Thiers, Barbara (bthiers<at>nybg.org)

Home Page: http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/SteereHerbarium.asp

Contact: José Jesús Sánchez Escalante (jsanchez<at>guayacan.uson.mx)

Home Page: http://herbario.uson.mx/

This is a collection of general image supported observations submitted by general SEINet users.

Contact: SEINet Administrator (seinetadmin<at>asu.edu)

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La Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (Conabio) es una comisión intersecretarial, creada en 1992 con carácter de permanente. El Presidente de la Comisión es el titular del Ejecutivo Federal, C. Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. El Secretario Técnico es el titular de la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Semarnat), C. Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada y participan los titulares de nueve secretarías más: Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (Sagarpa), Desarrollo Social (Sedesol), Economía (SE), Educación Pública (SEP), Energía (Sener), Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP), Relaciones Exteriores (SRE), Salud (SSA) y Turismo (Sectur).

Contact: CONABIO (servext<at>conabio.gob.mx)

Home Page: http://www.conabio.gob.mx/

Contact: Thomas Van Devender (VanDevender<at>skyislandalliance.org)

Home Page: http://www.skyislandalliance.org/maba.htm

Turner R.M., J. E. Bowers, and T. L. Burgess. 2005. Sonoran Desert Plants: An Ecological Atlas. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, AZ

Contact: Nick Deyo (nick<at>skyislandalliance.org)

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