University of Alberta Vascular Plant Herbarium

University of Alberta Museums

Acronym: ALTA-VP

Description

The Vascular Plant Herbarium is a research and teaching resource for the study of evolution, diversity, distribution and ecology of cordilleran, prairie, arctic and alpine plants. It is the largest herbarium of its kind in Alberta, and the third largest in Western Canada. Founded in 1912, the herbarium holds more than 120,000 specimens dating from 1835 to the present and is built upon the collecting activities of faculty members and students, as well as the acquisition of outstanding amateur collections. Though global in scope, the strength of the collection lies in plants of Alberta and northern Canada.

Citation

University of Alberta Museums (2017). University of Alberta Vascular Plant Herbarium (ALTA-VP). Version 10.12. Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.18165/qssyvr accessed via GBIF.org on 2017-09-29. id: http://doi.org/10.18165/qssyvr

Rights

Dataset: University of Alberta Vascular Plant Herbarium (ALTA-VP), http://doi.org/10.18165/qssyvr Rights as supplied: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Digitised records

Metadata last updated on 2018-01-29 12:52:55.0