Welcome to the CU Museum Herbarium's Specimen Database.

What are we working on? What has been digitized at COLO?

Label images for all North American Lichens and Bryophytes are in our database and are ~90% transcribed.

Colorado Vascular Plants are all imaged and label data is in our database. ~80% are georeferenced.

North American Vascular plants are ~90% imaged mostly with skeletal database entries.

We are actively digitizing this collection transcribing and georeferencing specimens from the Southern Rocky Mountains.

A list of completed families is available at this LINK.

We will start digitizing non-North American lichens in the fall of 2020.

We are seeking funding opportunities to digitize our non-North American vascular plants, and our worldwide Algae, Non-Lichenized Fungi and Myxomycetes collections.

Our Algae (~8,000 specimens), Non-Lichenized Fungi (~12,000 specimens) and Myxomycetes (~900 specimens) have not been digitized in any form.

All-Asia TCN

Bringing Asia to digital life: mobilizing underrepresented Asian herbarium collections in the US to propel biodiversity discovery

This TCN will digitize ~40,000 vascular plant specimens from the Asian Continent. This is roughly 40-50% of our non-North American vascular plant specimens. (September 2021-August 2025)

GLOBAL TCN

Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities

This TCN focuses on the Lichen and Bryophyte specimens in our collection from outside of North America. We will image and database ~50,000 lichens and ~50,000 bryophytes contributing data

to the lichen and bryophyte portals. (September 2020-August 2023)

SoRo TCN

Using Herbarium Data to Document Plant Niches in the High Peaks and High Plains of the Southern Rockies - Past, Present, and Future (SoRo)

COLO is the lead institution on the Southern Rocky Mountain TCN. Most of our efforts are going into the development of the Consortium of Southern Rocky Mountain Herbaria Portal ( soroherbaria.org ),

but specimen records are being updated on a regular basis. Our current focus is imaging our remaining North American vascular plants (~5,000 specimens) and transcription of plant specimens

from the Southern Rocky Mountain Region.

Images and georeferences will be added over the course of the project. During this process many of our records will only be represented by skeletal records (basic geography and taxonomy).

IMLS

Building Digital Collections and Infrastructure for the 21st Century at the University of Colorado Herbarium

Building on previous digitization efforts the Botany Section of the University of Colorado Museum (COLO) will image, georeference and transcribe all of its vascular plants form Colorado.

COLO has now imaged all vascular plants from Colorado. Images are actively being associated with the database.

Georeferencing is ~70% complete for Colorado portion of the vascular plant collection.

All lichens and bryophytes from Colorado have been transcribed.

All records housed at http://cumuseum-archive.colorado.edu/Research/Botany/Databases/search.php are now available here.

Data Usage Policy

Visit the Data Usage Policy page for information on how to cite data obtained from this web resource.

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Search Taxon Welcome to the CU Museum Herbarium's Specimen Database. What are we working on? What has been digitized at COLO? Label images for all North American Lichens and Bryophytes are in our database and are ~90% transcribed. Colorado Vascular Plants are all imaged and label data is in our database. ~80% are georeferenced. North American Vascular plants are ~90% imaged mostly with skeletal database entries. We are actively digitizing this collection transcribing and georeferencing specimens from the Southern Rocky Mountains. A list of completed families is available at this LINK. We will start digitizing non-North American lichens in the fall of 2020. We are seeking funding opportunities to digitize our non-North American vascular plants, and our worldwide Algae, Non-Lichenized Fungi and Myxomycetes collections. Our Algae (~8,000 specimens), Non-Lichenized Fungi (~12,000 specimens) and Myxomycetes (~900 specimens) have not been digitized in any form. All-Asia TCN Bringing Asia to digital life: mobilizing underrepresented Asian herbarium collections in the US to propel biodiversity discovery This TCN will digitize ~40,000 vascular plant specimens from the Asian Continent. This is roughly 40-50% of our non-North American vascular plant specimens. (September 2021-August 2025) GLOBAL TCN Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities This TCN focuses on the Lichen and Bryophyte specimens in our collection from outside of North America. We will image and database ~50,000 lichens and ~50,000 bryophytes contributing data to the lichen and bryophyte portals. (September 2020-August 2023) SoRo TCN Using Herbarium Data to Document Plant Niches in the High Peaks and High Plains of the Southern Rockies - Past, Present, and Future (SoRo) COLO is the lead institution on the Southern Rocky Mountain TCN. Most of our efforts are going into the development of the Consortium of Southern Rocky Mountain Herbaria Portal ( soroherbaria.org ), but specimen records are being updated on a regular basis. Our current focus is imaging our remaining North American vascular plants (~5,000 specimens) and transcription of plant specimens from the Southern Rocky Mountain Region. Images and georeferences will be added over the course of the project. During this process many of our records will only be represented by skeletal records (basic geography and taxonomy). IMLS Building Digital Collections and Infrastructure for the 21st Century at the University of Colorado Herbarium Building on previous digitization efforts the Botany Section of the University of Colorado Museum (COLO) will image, georeference and transcribe all of its vascular plants form Colorado. COLO has now imaged all vascular plants from Colorado. Images are actively being associated with the database. Georeferencing is ~70% complete for Colorado portion of the vascular plant collection. All lichens and bryophytes from Colorado have been transcribed. All records housed at http://cumuseum-archive.colorado.edu/Research/Botany/Databases/search.php are now available here. Data Usage Policy Visit the Data Usage Policy page for information on how to cite data obtained from this web resource.