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Rocky Mountain Herbarium (RM)

Founded in 1893 by Aven Nelson, the Rocky Mountain Herbarium (RM) contains the largest collection of Rocky Mountain plants and fungi in existence with additional representation of the floras of other parts of the Northern Hemisphere. It ranks ~13th in the nation with over 1,100,000 specimens [with approximately 10,000 new specimens added each year] and is the largest facility of its kind between St. Louis, Missouri, and Berkeley, California.

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Rocky Mountain Herbarium
University of Wyoming
Deptartment 4340
1000 E University Ave
Laramie, WY   82071
USA
307-766-2236
https://www.rockymountainherbarium.org/

Collection Statistics

  • 869,434 specimen records
  • 685,147 (79%) georeferenced
  • 354,931 (41%) with media (356,433 total media)
  • 816,830 (94%) identified to species
  • 293 families
  • 1,738 genera
  • 8,575 species
  • 11,282 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Upload: 7 January 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: DWCA Remote File Upload; May 2022 DwC Import
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