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
Acaena (43 ) Adenostoma (7 ) Agrimonia (257 ) Alchemilla (272 ) Amelanchier (725 ) Aphanes (1 ) Aronia (238 ) Aruncus (21 ) Cerasus (2 ) Cercocarpus (114 ) Chaenomeles (9 ) Chamaerhodos (10 ) Cliffortia (8 ) Coluria (1 ) Comarum (111 ) Cotoneaster (106 ) Cowania (49 ) Crataegus (1056 ) Cydonia (4 ) Dalibarda (3 ) Dasiphora (148 ) Docynia (1 ) Dryas (6 ) Drymocallis (84 ) Duchesnea (13 ) Eriobotrya (12 ) Exochorda (1 ) Fallugia (14 ) Filipendula (25 ) Fragaria (299 ) Geum (578 ) Gillenia (9 ) Hesperomeles (6 ) Heteromeles (2 ) Holodiscus (53 ) Horkelia (7 ) Ivesia (5 ) Kelseya (1 ) Kerria (1 ) Lindleya (39 ) Luetkea (1 ) Malacomeles (69 ) Malus (179 ) Margyricarpus (1 ) Micromeles (6 ) Neillia (4 ) Neviusia (1 ) Osteomeles (2 ) Photinia (89 ) Physocarpus (141 ) Potentilla (1301 ) Poterium (17 ) Pourthiaea (19 ) Prinsepia (14 ) Prunus (1518 ) Purshia (1 ) Pygeum (1 ) Pyracantha (4 ) Pyrus (88 ) Rhaphiolepis (2 ) Rhodotypos (21 ) Rosa (1065 ) Rubus (2548 ) Sanguisorba (16 ) Sibbaldia (17 ) Sibbaldiopsis (86 ) Sorbaria (31 ) Sorbus (127 ) Spiraea (369 ) Stephanandra (1 ) Vauquelinia (42 ) Waldsteinia (5 ) Xerospiraea (2 )
