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University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Herbarium (COLO)

Herbarium COLO is the Botany Section of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History on the Boulder campus. [Only records relevant to the Flora of Oregon are presented here. See: https://botanydb.colorado.edu/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=1 for the full dataset.]

Contacts: J Ryan Allen, james.r.allen@colorado.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 February 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Access Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Cite this collection:
Biodiversity data published by: University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Herbarium. Occurrence dataset (ID: f84dbfb5-fadb-40cc-981f-17a155e2423e) accessed via the OregonFlora Portal, oregonflora.org, 2024-05-07).
Collection Statistics
  • 107,824 specimen records
  • 52,218 (48%) georeferenced
  • 13 (0.01%) identified to species
  • 180 families
  • 961 genera
  • 3,343 species
  • 10 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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Taxon Distribution
  • Agrostemma (5)
  • Atocion (2)
  • Cerastium (2)
  • Cherleria (3)
  • Dianthus (36)
  • Eremogone (2)
  • Gypsophila (13)
  • Holosteum (1)
  • Lychnis (1)
  • Pseudostellaria (1)
  • Sagina (3)
  • Saponaria (44)
  • Silene (312)
  • Spergularia (1)
  • Stellaria (8)
  • Vaccaria (32)