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Welcome to the UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity!

1026 Sciences Laboratory Building (J.M. Tucker and Beecher Crampton Herbaria)

***The UC Davis campus will remain closed through Thursday, Nov. 15. Thus the Davis Botanical Society Student Grant Recipients Presentations to be held in the Life Sciences Addition Bldg. will be cancelled***

Herbarium Highlights


  • Take the Herbarium tour with Joe Ditomaso and learn how to identify common weeds using methods employed in professional settings like the U.C. Davis herbarium and also the latest and easiest techniques that employ the use of sophisticated computer programs available to the public.

  • Check out Hidden Treasures, a recent article about the Herbarium.

  • Why would anyone keep a collection of dead plants? (find out here)

  • Read an article about the old Herbarium as it was featured in UC Davis Magazine here.

  • View The Plant Detective, a presentation on collecting plants in the field.

  • Read about the Crampton Herbarium's 100th Anniversary here.

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Current News


Every Plant Has a Story: Ellen Dean and the Center for Plant Diversity: Click here to view

Plant lists and floras have been updated: Click here to view

The UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity has received two National Science Foundation grants! The first, in collaboration with the Consortium of California Herbaria, is for databasing specimens of California plants that are likely to be affected by our changing climate. The second is for creating a Euphorbiaceae website with images and taxonomic resources for identifying several large genera; see: Webster Virtual Herbarium and Links.

Click here for the poster of the Seed Cones of California Pines: From the Cone Collection at the UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity (still available for sale while supplies last)

New Resources


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