Calvin College (CALVIN)

The Calvin College Herbarium was founded in 1948 and contains approximately 8,500 specimens, of which over 6,000 are imaged. Most of the holdings are from West Michigan (Kent Co., Ottawa Co.) and Midwestern North America (incl. Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota). In addition, Calvin houses vouchers documenting flora at the Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve, Flat Iron Lake and the Grand Rapids area.

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Home Page: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/biology/about/facilities/herbarium.html

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/

• 731 occurrence
• 0 georeferenced
• 696 (95%) with images
• 720 (98%) identified to species
• 25 families
• 33 genera
• 216 species
• 219 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)