University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Herbarium (UWEC)

Wisconsin has a plethora of plant life! The UW-Eau Claire herbarium consists of over 10,000 plant specimens collected from western and central Wisconsin. The dried and pressed plants offer biology students a closer look at the complexity of a single plant. Classes like Taxonomy of Vascular Plants, Field Botany and Dendrology take special advantage of the herbarium.

Contact: Curator: Joe Rohrer (jrohrer@uwec.edu); Nora Mitchell (mitchenc@uwec.edu)

Home Page: https://www.uwec.edu/academics/college-arts-sciences/departments-programs/biology/explore-opportunities/academic-facilities/collections/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 503b3af6-cdb1-49b3-865d-1733687316db

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)

• 6,687 occurrence
• 3,323 (50%) georeferenced
• 0 with images
• 6,280 (94%) identified to species
• 109 families
• 357 genera
• 697 species
• 860 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)