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Welcome To The UVU Virtual Herbarium

The UVU Herbarium is available for searching and online specimen study.

For each specimen in the Virtual Herbarium, you can view:

To browse herbarium specimens, click on the highlighted links below:

Lists of all Families and Genera in the Herbarium.

Lists can also be generated by common name, collector, country, states & provinces, and county

A list of the type specimens currently at UVU


To begin, enter a phrase in the the Keyword Search field below.

To search specific fields in the database, use the advanced search.

     Keyword Search:
                  Click here if you are unsure how to spell a scientific name.

Search Tips: search on all or part of the family, the scientific (binomial) name or the common name, the location, the city/county/state names, the names of the collectors, or environment keywords. To search several terms at once, use the advanced field search which offers combined ("___ and ___") searches on specific scientific names or geographic information.


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Database Statistics:
13,565 Accessions, 13,087 with images (96%)
152 Families, 151 with images (99%)
872 Genera, 863 with images (99%)
2,834 Species, 2,744 with images (97%)
3,357 Taxa, 3,253 with images (97%)
15,994 total images.