Eastern Michigan University Herbarium (EMC)

The Eastern Michigan University Herbarium (EMC) provides botanical resources, research facilities, and educational opportunities to the University and broader scientific community. The herbarium seeks to continue and develop the scientific acquisition, documentation and monitoring of the plants of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region including those that are threatened, endangered and rare. The herbarium contains over 30,000 vascular plant specimens, mosses, fungi, and algae. Most specimens are from Michigan and Ontario, Canada.

Contact: Margaret Hanes, Director (mkoopma2@emich.edu)

Home Page: http://www.emich.edu/biology/facilities/herbarium.php

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: b0178bb0-c5d7-11e4-b6af-00163e00498d

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://midwestherbaria.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

• 17,094 occurrence
• 2,084 (12%) georeferenced
• 16,265 (95%) with images
• 8,539 (50%) identified to species
• 144 families
• 731 genera
• 2,419 species
• 2,610 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)