University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH)

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, and Myrtaceae of the New World.
Date Founded: 1837.

Contact: Richard Rabeler, Collections Manager (umherb-data@umich.edu)

Home Page: http://herbarium.lsa.umich.edu/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

• 100,383 occurrence
• 18,033 (18%) georeferenced
• 92,150 (92%) with images
• 93,242 (93%) identified to species
• 32 families
• 44 genera
• 1,516 species
• 1,801 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)