Adams State University Herbarium (ALAM)

The Adams State Herbarium houses ca 8000 specimens of mainly plants collected in Colorado and northern New Mexico.

Contacts: Mathew Sharples, msharples@adams.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 89314c9c-1c25-429b-81a4-fbef327eefb2
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 5,557 specimen records
  • 4,824 (87%) georeferenced
  • 5,554 (100%) with images (5,557 total images)
  • 5,383 (97%) identified to species
  • 121 families
  • 528 genera
  • 1,316 species
  • 1,341 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Amorpha (2)
  • Astragalus (56)
  • Calliandra (1)
  • Caragana (3)
  • Cercidium (1)
  • Dalea (2)
  • Erythronium (1)
  • Glycyrrhiza (1)
  • Lathyrus (5)
  • Lupinus (49)
  • Medicago (5)
  • Melilotus (13)
  • Oxytropis (26)
  • Prosopis (1)
  • Psoralea (2)
  • Robinia (4)
  • Sphaerophysa (8)
  • Thermopsis (15)
  • Trifolium (41)
  • Vicia (11)