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.
Contacts: Steffi M. Ickert-Bond, Curator, smickertbond@alaska.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 December 2019
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
- 29,514 specimen records
- 15,745 (53%) georeferenced
- 18,126 (61%) with images (21,589 total images)
- 28,168 (95%) identified to species
- 87 families
- 295 genera
- 1,542 species
- 1,585 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
This project made possible by National Science Foundation Awards: #1115116