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DAV UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity

Latest version published by University of California, Davis on 21 November 2016 University of California, Davis
The UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity has ca. 300,000 specimens. The collections are worldwide in scope, with strengths in the following geographic regions: California; Ecuador; Baja California; the Antilles; the Pacific Islands; Mediterranean-climate regions. The following speciality areas are strong: range plants of California; vernal pool plants of California; alpine flora of western North America; poisonous and weedy plants of California; Euphorbiaceae; Poaceae; and the genera Quercus, Allium, Arctostaphylos, Atriplex, Capsicum, Clarkia, Eschscholzia, Lycianthes, Lycopersicon, Mimulus, Navarretia, Stephanomeria, Trifolium, Vitis. The following collectors are well-represented in our collections: B. G. Baldwin, F. Bowcutt, CNPS, B. Crampton, E. Dean, J. Ditomaso, E. L. Ekman, K. Esau,... More
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The UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity has ca. 300,000 specimens. The collections are worldwide in scope, with strengths in the following geographic regions: California; Ecuador; Baja California; the Antilles; the Pacific Islands; Mediterranean-climate regions. The following speciality areas are strong: range plants of California; vernal pool plants of California; alpine flora of western North America; poisonous and weedy plants of California; Euphorbiaceae; Poaceae; and the genera Quercus, Allium, Arctostaphylos, Atriplex, Capsicum, Clarkia, Eschscholzia, Lycianthes, Lycopersicon, Mimulus, Navarretia, Stephanomeria, Trifolium, Vitis. The following collectors are well-represented in our collections: B. G. Baldwin, F. Bowcutt, CNPS, B. Crampton, E. Dean, J. Ditomaso, E. L. Ekman, K. Esau, R. W. Gankin, L. Gottlieb, G. Helmkamp, G. F. Hrusa, P. B. Kennedy, H. Kennedy, A. T. Leiser, J. Major, B. J. McCaskill, H. Olmo, R. Preston, W. W. Robbins, D. Sanchez-Mata, M. Sanderson, J. Shepard, A. Solomeshch, G. L. Stebbins, D. Taylor, J. M. Tucker, E. C. Twisselmann, G. L. Webster

Data Records

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University of California Davis - Center for Plant Diversity (DAV)

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of California, Davis. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 84de00a0-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  University of California, Davis publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Ellen A. Dean
Curator
UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity
1026 Sciences Laboratory Building, 505 Hutchison Drive, UC Davis Campus
95616 Davis
California
US
+01 530-752-1091
http://herbarium.ucdavis.edu/collections.html

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Ellen A. Dean
Curator
UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity
1026 Sciences Laboratory Building, 505 Hutchison Drive, UC Davis Campus
95616 Davis
California
US
+01 530-752-1091
http://herbarium.ucdavis.edu/collections.html

Who filled in the metadata:

Tom Starbuck
Data Curator
UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity
1026 Sciences Laboratory Building, 505 Hutchison Drive, UC Davis Campus
95616 Davis
California
US
+01 530-752-1091
http://herbarium.ucdavis.edu/collections.html

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
Joanna McCaffrey
Biodiversity Informatics Manager

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 84de00a0-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
http://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=ucdavis-herb