California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (CAS-BOT-BC)

Emphasis is on California, North America, Latin America (especially western and southern Mexico and the Galapagos) and Asia (especially China). Vascular plant families and genera that are particularly well represented include Acanthaceae, Brassicaceae, Carex, Eriogonum, Hydrophyllaceae, Lupinus, Asteraceae (particularly Madinae), Malvaceae, Melastomataceae, Onagraceae, Penstemon, Poaceae, Polemoniaceae and Quercus. The herbarium also contains the largest collection of ornamental plants in California.

Contacts: Debra Trock, Senior Collections Manager, dtrock@calacademy.org

Homepage: http://www.calacademy.org/scientists/botany

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Last Update: 2 February 2023

DwC-Archive Access Point: http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=botany

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: California Academy of Sciences

Access Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Cite this collection:

Biodiversity data published by: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Occurrence dataset (ID: fb909c6e-49fd-46ee-bc05-ea403bc5786c) http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=botany accessed via the OregonFlora Portal, oregonflora.org, 2024-05-16).

Collection Statistics

23,847 specimen records
4,950 (21%) georeferenced
4,737 (20%) identified to species
202 families
623 genera
44 species
87 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Geographic Distribution - California

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Alameda (75)
Alpine (46)
Amador (13)
Butte (58)
Calaveras (17)
Colusa (14)
Contra Costa (27)
Del Norte (27)
El Dorado (107)
Fresno (120)
Glenn (22)
Humboldt (84)
Imperial (1)
Inyo (84)
Kern (132)
Kings (6)
Lake (30)
Lassen (44)
Los Angeles (112)
Madera (31)
Marin (137)
Mariposa (65)
Mendocino (125)
Merced (14)
Modoc (81)
Mono (186)
Monterey (223)
Napa (29)
Nevada (175)
Orange (18)
Placer (72)
Plumas (159)
Riverside (24)
Sacramento (15)
San Benito (17)
San Bernardino (100)
San Diego (62)
San Francisco (180)
San Joaquin (14)
San Luis Obispo (140)
San Mateo (168)
Santa Barbara (139)
Santa Clara (137)
Santa Cruz (101)
Shasta (80)
Sierra (53)
Siskiyou (212)
Solano (17)
Sonoma (152)
Stanislaus (8)
Sutter (16)
Tehama (25)
Trinity (64)
Tulare (289)
Tuolumne (119)
Ventura (98)
Yolo (13)
Yuba (4)