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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU-Vascular Plants)

Herbarium Curatrix: Carol Ann McCormick, mccormick@unc.edu, +1-919-962-6931
Herbarium Director: Alan Weakley, weakley@unc.edu, +1-919-962-0522
Homepage: https://ncbg.unc.edu/research/unc-herbarium/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 30 August 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 30,830 specimen records
  • 2,923 (9%) georeferenced
  • 28,813 (93%) with images (29,742 total images)
  • 2 GenBank genetic references
  • 29,052 (94%) identified to species
  • 225 families
  • 1,200 genera
  • 3,452 species
  • 3,809 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Agrostis (13)
  • Aira (1)
  • Alopecurus (1)
  • Amphicarpum (4)
  • Andropogon (147)
  • Aristida (111)
  • Arundinaria (10)
  • Arundo (3)
  • Avena (1)
  • Axonopus (25)
  • Bambusa (4)
  • Bothriochloa (12)
  • Bouteloua (3)
  • Brachiaria (15)
  • Briza (8)
  • Bromus (5)
  • Calamovilfa (2)
  • Cenchrus (46)
  • Chasmanthium (16)
  • Chrysopogon (3)
  • Coelorachis (3)
  • Coleataenia (41)
  • Ctenium (28)
  • Cynodon (12)
  • Dactyloctenium (16)
  • Danthonia (5)
  • Dichanthelium (248)
  • Dichanthium (1)
  • Digitaria (66)
  • Distichlis (10)
  • Echinochloa (45)
  • Eleusine (11)
  • Eragrostis (160)
  • Eremochloa (5)
  • Erianthus (16)
  • Eriochloa (11)
  • Eustachys (48)
  • Festuca (2)
  • Glyceria (1)
  • Gymnopogon (12)
  • Heteropogon (8)
  • Hymenachne (1)
  • Hyparrhenia (3)
  • Imperata (5)
  • Lasiacis (14)
  • Leersia (23)
  • Leptochloa (24)
  • Lolium (4)
  • Luziola (1)
  • Manisuris (13)
  • Melica (10)
  • Melinis (27)
  • Microstegium (2)
  • Monanthochloe (14)
  • Muhlenbergia (25)
  • Neyraudia (3)
  • Opizia (1)
  • Oplismenus (17)
  • Panicum (76)
  • Paspalidium (6)
  • Paspalum (193)
  • Pennisetum (7)
  • Phalaris (1)
  • Phanopyrum (6)
  • Pharus (1)
  • Phragmites (4)
  • Piptochaetium (11)
  • Poa (6)
  • Polypogon (13)
  • Reimarochloa (2)
  • Rottboellia (5)
  • Saccharum (1)
  • Sacciolepis (23)
  • Schizachyrium (47)
  • Secale (1)
  • Setaria (60)
  • Sorghastrum (27)
  • Sorghum (10)
  • Spartina (42)
  • Sphenopholis (14)
  • Sporobolus (94)
  • Steinchisma (10)
  • Stenotaphrum (12)
  • Stipa (1)
  • Syntherisma (2)
  • Trichachne (1)
  • Tridens (19)
  • Triplasis (17)
  • Tripsacum (10)
  • Uniola (19)
  • Urochloa (35)
  • Vulpia (5)
  • Zizania (3)
  • Zoysia (3)