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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
Homepage: http://www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/herb/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 January 2023
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://lichenportal.org/portal/content/dwca/ALA_DwC-A.zip
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 30,829 specimen records
  • 17,588 (57%) georeferenced
  • 21,666 (70%) with images (25,432 total images)
  • 29,458 (96%) identified to species
  • 87 families
  • 295 genera
  • 1,547 species
  • 1,591 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics