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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, 2024-05-08).
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
  • Amphiscirpus (26)
  • Bolboschoenus (92)
  • Bulbostylis (20)
  • Calliscirpus (3)
  • Carex (4863)
  • Cyperus (303)
  • Dulichium (34)
  • Eleocharis (533)
  • Eriophorum (211)
  • Isolepis (15)
  • Kobresia (173)
  • Lipocarpha (10)
  • Rhynchospora (23)
  • Schoenoplectus (221)
  • Scirpus (209)
  • Trichophorum (4)