Collection Profile for: 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, Myrtaceae, and Podostemaceae of the New World.Date Founded: 1837.
Contacts:
Collection Manager: Brad Ruhfel, umherb-data@umich.edu
Collection Manager: Aly Baumgartner, umherb-data@umich.edu
Technical Support: Garth Holman, gholman@umich.edu
Address:
University of Michigan Herbarium
3600 Varsity Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2228
U.S.A.
734-615-6200
Collection Statistics
615,133 specimen records
185,416 (30%) georeferenced
525,526 (85%) with media (711,914 total media) 10 GenBank genetic references 574,849 (93%) identified to species 375 families 5,800 genera 45,587 species 50,267 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
5 June 2025
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Aglaonema (55 ) Alocasia (42 ) Ambrosinia (1 ) Amorphophallus (54 ) Amydrium (10 ) Anadendrum (16 ) Anaphyllum (1 ) Anchomanes (1 ) Anthurium (296 ) Apoballis (4 ) Arisaema (598 ) Arisarum (8 ) Arum (18 ) Biarum (1 ) Caladium (5 ) Calla (150 ) Colocasia (17 ) Cryptocoryne (3 ) Culcasia (2 ) Cyrtosperma (6 ) Dieffenbachia (14 ) Dracontium (2 ) Dracunculus (3 ) Eminium (4 ) Epipremnum (5 ) Gonatanthus (7 ) Gymnostachys (6 ) Heteropsis (3 ) Holochlamys (2 ) Homalomena (105 ) Lagenandra (4 ) Lasia (7 ) Lemna (670 ) Leucocasia (2 ) Lysichiton (9 ) Monstera (45 ) Montrichardia (7 ) Orontium (33 ) Peltandra (83 ) Philodendron (113 ) Pinellia (7 ) Pistia (57 ) Podolasia (11 ) Pothoidium (7 ) Pothos (67 ) Remusatia (13 ) Rhaphidophora (73 ) Rhynchopyle (1 ) Sauromatum (6 ) Schismatoglottis (30 ) Scindapsus (14 ) Spathantheum (1 ) Spathicarpa (3 ) Spathiphyllum (36 ) Spirodela (223 ) Stenospermation (9 ) Steudnera (3 ) Symplocarpus (104 ) Syngonium (57 ) Typhonium (4 ) Urospatha (2 ) Wolffia (237 ) Wolffiella (46 ) Xanthosoma (66 ) Zantedeschia (6 ) Zomicarpa (1 )
