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Lichen Collection, University of Washington Herbarium

Specimen Records: 32,613
Media Records: 7,605
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

The herbarium's total holdings number over 600,000 specimens of vascular and nonvascular plants, fungi, lichens, and marine algae. The herbarium maintains a regional focus on the Pacific Northwest, covering Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory. Other significant collections come from California, the rest of Western North America, and the Pacific Rim. Our oldest specimens date to the late 1800's. Particularly active periods of growth for the herbarium occurred with the incorporation of the herbarium of J. William Thompson in 1943, collections made under the direction of C. Leo Hitchcock in the 1930's - 1950's, and field work since 2002.

Contacts

Name David Giblin
RoleCollections Manager
Emailwtu@uw.edu
Name Ben Legler
RoleInformatics Specialist
Emailblegler@u.washington.edu
Name David Giblin
RoleCollections Manager
Emailwtu@uw.edu
  • 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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i32440
99.47
dwc_continent_added  i32423
99.417
dwc_country_replaced  i31525
96.664
dwc_class_added  i30691
94.107
dwc_datasetid_added  i30691
94.107
dwc_kingdom_added  i30691
94.107
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i30691
94.107
dwc_phylum_added  i30691
94.107
dwc_taxonid_added  i30691
94.107
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i30691
94.107
gbif_canonicalname_added  i30691
94.107
gbif_genericname_added  i30691
94.107
gbif_taxon_corrected  i30691
94.107
dwc_order_added  i28858
88.486
dwc_family_added  i28791
88.281
gbif_reference_added  i25728
78.889
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i25627
78.579
gbif_vernacularname_added  i23240
71.26
dwc_multimedia_added  i18648
57.18
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i17080
52.372
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i16031
49.155
geopoint_datum_missing  i13051
40.018
taxon_match_failed  i12560
38.512
geopoint_low_precision  i3355
10.287
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i2707
8.3
rev_geocode_eez  i2604
7.985
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i2359
7.233
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i2263
6.939
dwc_genus_replaced  i1511
4.633
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1050
3.22
dwc_family_replaced  i556
1.705
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i79
0.242
rev_geocode_mismatch  i42
0.129
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i38
0.117
rev_geocode_failure  i18
0.055
geopoint_0_coord  i11
0.034
geopoint_similar_coord  i11
0.034
rev_geocode_corrected  i11
0.034
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i11
0.034
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i5
0.015
geopoint_datum_error  i2
0.006
dwc_country_added  i1
0.003
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