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.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 97,287 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
University of Alberta Museums, Becker-Burns A, Mallalieu K (2025). University of Alberta Vascular Plant Herbarium (ALTA-VP). Version 10.98. University of Alberta Museums. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.18165/qssyvr
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Alberta Museums. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2429287b-ef65-4cfd-afcc-11cc3ba95cca. University of Alberta Museums publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Specimen; Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator
- Rutherford South 3-20, 11204-89 Avenue NW
- 780-492-5834
- Metadata Provider ●
- Custodian Steward
- Assistant Director Collections Management
- Rutherford South 3-20, 11204-89 Avenue NW
- 780-492-3871
- Metadata Provider ●
- Custodian Steward
- Collections Management Advisor
- Rutherford South 3-20, 11204-89 Avenue NW
- 780-492-6271
- Curator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
- CW 405, Biological Sciences Bldg., University of Alberta
- 780-492-8611
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8889-7892
- Curator
- Assistant Curator
- CW 405, Biological Sciences Bldg., University of Alberta
- 780-492-5523
Geographic Coverage
Global, North America, Canada, United States, Alberta
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The following taxonomic groups make up >10% of the collection: Plantae, Angiospermae, Eudicots, Monocots, Poales, Asterales, Poaceae, Cyperaceae, Asteraceae, Carex
| Kingdom | Plantae (Plants) |
|---|---|
| Order | Poales, Asterales |
| Family | Poaceae (Grasses), Cyperaceae (Sedges), Asteraceae (Asters, Daisies, Composites, Sunflowers) |
| Genus | Carex (Sedges) |
| Unranked | Angiospermae (Angiosperms), Eudicots, Monocots |
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1856-current |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of Alberta Vascular Plant Herbarium |
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| Collection Identifier | ALTA-VP |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UAM |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | doi:10.18165/qssyvr |
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| 2429287b-ef65-4cfd-afcc-11cc3ba95cca | |
| https://ipt.museums.ualberta.ca/ipt/resource?r=uofa_vascular_plants_herbarium |