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Charles Maurer Herbarium at Colorado State University (CS)

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The Charles Maurer Herbarium Collection is the third largest collection of vascular plants (> 104,000 specimens) and is the oldest herbarium (began in 1883) in the southern Rocky Mountain region. Important collections include those by J. Ackerfield, J. Cassidy, J. H. Cowen, C.S. Crandall, and H.D. Harrington. The herbarium has an excellent representation of the Colorado flora as well as the flora of the southern Rocky Mountain region. The Charles Maurer Herbarium contains several important collections, including the specimen backbones of three major floras for Colorado. First, the herbarium houses approximately 4,500 historical collections made by its first curators in the late 1890’s, Charles Spencer Crandall and Jacob Hover Cowen. These collections formed the foundation for Flora of Colorado (Rydberg, 1906), the first comprehensive flora of the state. Second, the herbarium also houses approximately 10,000 collections from curator Harold D. Harrington, which formed the basis for his comprehensive Manual of the Plants of Colorado (1954). Lastly, collections of curator Jennifer Ackerfield are housed in the herbarium. Together, these collections formed the foundation for the most current Flora of Colorado (Ackerfield, 2021).   

Contacts:

Address:

Colorado State University
Biology Department
1878 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO   80523-1878
United States
(970) 491-0496

Collection Statistics

  • 101,781 specimen records
  • 63,703 (63%) georeferenced
  • 72,438 (71%) with images (72,498 total images)
  • 100,074 (98%) identified to species
  • 237 families
  • 1,748 genera
  • 7,763 species
  • 8,945 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

Extra Statistics

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Last Update: 27 September 2021
Global Unique Identifier: f5db692d-95c2-4532-a9e0-76a3d2bb675a
Digital Metadata:EML File