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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

Genera of the family Iridaceae represented in the Herbarium:

Crocus1
Iris8
Sisyrinchium9

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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:
17,015 Accessions, 14,040 with images (83%)
195 Families, 173 with images (89%)
1,063 Genera, 896 with images (84%)
3,357 Species, 2,876 with images (86%)
4,091 Taxa, 3,502 with images (86%)
17,117 total images.