Collection Profile for: The Pennsylvania Agricultural College (PAC) Herbarium represents one of the oldest natural history collections at Penn State University. Established in 1859 with 3,000 specimens donated by Penn State’s first president Evan Pugh, the collection has since grown to over 100,000 items including mounted voucher specimens, seed vials and jars, and specimen jars which hold a portion of the algal collection.
Contacts:
Director: Claude dePamphilis, cwd3@psu.edu
Curator: Sarah Chamberlain, sjm20@psu.edu
Collection Statistics
95,861 specimen records
39,802 (42%) georeferenced
93,934 (98%) with images (94,053 total images) 91,411 (95%) identified to species 263 families 2,165 genera 10,271 species 10,827 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Live Data managed directly within data portal
Last Update:
21 February 2022
Global Unique Identifier: 512d3c7f-fb50-4ef3-b2fd-4e1847b513fc
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Acanthomintha (1 ) Agastache (41 ) Ajuga (32 ) Audibertia (1 ) Ballota (4 ) Blephilia (23 ) Brazoria (2 ) Calamintha (1 ) Callicarpa (29 ) Caryopteris (2 ) Clerodendrum (6 ) Clinopodium (128 ) Coleus (5 ) Collinsonia (58 ) Conradina (1 ) Cornutia (2 ) Cunila (37 ) Dracocephalum (2 ) Elsholtzia (3 ) Galeopsis (16 ) Glechoma (102 ) Hedeoma (93 ) Holmskioldia (1 ) Hymenopyramis (1 ) Hyptis (11 ) Hyssopus (1 ) Isanthus (18 ) Koellia (1 ) Lamium (70 ) Lavandula (4 ) Leonotis (3 ) Leonurus (67 ) Lycopus (260 ) Macbridea (3 ) Majorana (1 ) Marrubium (13 ) Meehania (3 ) Melissa (11 ) Mentha (255 ) Micromeria (2 ) Molucella (1 ) Monarda (185 ) Monardella (12 ) Nepeta (61 ) Ocimum (28 ) Origanum (3 ) Perilla (19 ) Perovskia (2 ) Physostegia (26 ) Piloblephis (2 ) Prunella (150 ) Pycnanthemum (184 ) Pycnothymus (3 ) Rosmarinus (1 ) Salazaria (1 ) Salvia (93 ) Satureja (5 ) Scutellaria (259 ) Sphacele (1 ) Stachys (74 ) Synandra (1 ) Teucrium (108 ) Thymus (15 ) Trichostema (50 ) Vitex (14 )
