University of Alaska Museum of the North Herbarium (ALA)

The Herbarium (ALA) contains more than 220,000 specimens of non-vascular and vascular plants and is the only major research herbarium in Alaska. The collection also includes plants from other states, Canada, Greenland, Fennoscandia, Japan, and Russia and provides a basis for teaching and research.

Contact: Steffi M. Ickert-Bond, Curator (smickertbond@alaska.edu)

Home Page: http://www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/herb/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

DwC-Archive Access Point: http://lichenportal.org/cnalh/content/dwca/ALA_DwC-A.zip

Digital Metadata: EML File

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

• 30,003 specimen records
• 15,537 (52%) georeferenced
• 13,727 (46%) with images
• 28,575 (95%) identified to species
• 81 families
• 297 genera
• 1,548 species
• 1,590 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)