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Patuxent Research Refuge, Maryland

Specimen Records: 5,505
Media Records: 8,308
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

PRR is the reference herbarium for plants occurring on the Patuxent Research Refuge. The refuge was established in 1936 by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and is the nation's only national wildlife refuge established to support wildlife research. It is located between Washington and Baltimore.When the refuge was established in 1936, botanist Neil Hotchkiss and other scientists surveyed the flora on the 2,650 acres which made up the Refuge. Lists of plants found on the Refuge were published in 1940 and 1947. The latter list tabulated 877 plant taxa. Voucher specimens were collected and reposited in the Refuge's herbarium. By 1980, when the refuge expanded to 4,741 acres, a total of 969 plant taxa were listed.In the early 1990's as part of the Base Re-alignment and Closure (BRAC) process, the Department of Defense transferred about 8,100 acres of land from Fort Meade to the Department of Interior, with control of the land given to the Fish and Wildlife Service. The addition of this parcel, now known as the North Tract, brought the total acreage of the Refuge to over 12,800 acres.A floral survey of the North Tract began in 2010 and a re-survey of the older parcel of the Refuge, known as the Central and South Tracts, was initiated in 2013. As of November 2020, the herbarium holds over 5,300 voucher specimens from over 1,250 taxa found on the Refuge. This includes some Maryland rare, threatened, and endangered (RTE) species and at least five species new to Maryland. Some duplicate and unique voucher specimens are held by other herbaria. With the collaboration of the Norton-Brown Herbarium at the University of Maryland, and the Mid-Atlantic Consortium the herbarium is digitizing its voucher specimens collection. Recently, the herbarium has added lichens to its collection.Please feel free to peruse the herbarium's data, but use it with caution as we are still tweaking things.For more information

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Emailbotanybill@philcobill.com
Name Helen Lowe-Metzman
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  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_continent_added  i5505
100
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i5505
100
dwc_datasetid_added  i4821
87.575
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i4821
87.575
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i4821
87.575
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i4821
87.575
gbif_canonicalname_added  i4821
87.575
gbif_genericname_added  i4821
87.575
gbif_taxon_corrected  i4821
87.575
dwc_phylum_replaced  i4800
87.193
gbif_vernacularname_added  i4657
84.596
dwc_class_added  i4582
83.233
gbif_reference_added  i4049
73.551
dwc_multimedia_added  i3949
71.735
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i3288
59.728
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i3008
54.641
taxon_match_failed  i2404
43.669
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i955
17.348
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i502
9.119
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i430
7.811
dwc_taxonremarks_replaced  i351
6.376
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i248
4.505
dwc_genus_replaced  i219
3.978
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i126
2.289
geopoint_low_precision  i75
1.362
geopoint_datum_missing  i63
1.144
dwc_family_replaced  i33
0.599
dwc_class_replaced  i23
0.418
dwc_order_replaced  i19
0.345
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i9
0.163
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i7
0.127
dwc_genus_added  i4
0.073
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i3
0.054
dwc_family_added  i2
0.036
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