University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections Herbarium (UTEP-Herb)

The Herbarium contains well over 85,000 catalogued plant specimens. Overall geographic content of the Herbarium is approximately as follows: Texas, 24%; New Mexico, 22%; other USA, 32%; Mexico, 7%; other world, 15%. Herbarium materials at UTEP that are of special interest include an extensive representation of the floras of the desert mountain ranges of southern New Mexico and western Texas.

Contacts: Richard Worthington, rworthin@utep.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 January 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Texas at El Paso
Access Rights: CC BY
Address:
University of Texas at El Paso
Biodiversity Collections Herbarium
500 West University Avenue
El Paso, TX   79968
U.S.A.
1] 915/ 747-5871
Collection Statistics
  • 83,736 specimen records
  • 65,019 (78%) georeferenced
  • 49,435 (59%) with images (100,945 total images)
  • 127 GenBank genetic references
  • 80,605 (96%) identified to species
  • 697 families
  • 4,447 genera
  • 18,954 species
  • 20,089 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Alliaria (10)
  • Alyssum (13)
  • Arabidella (8)
  • Arabidopsis (18)
  • Arabis (74)
  • Armoracia (3)
  • Athysanus (1)
  • Barbarea (18)
  • Berteroa (3)
  • Blennodia (1)
  • Boechera (18)
  • Brassica (51)
  • Braya (1)
  • Bunias (1)
  • Cakile (12)
  • Camelina (10)
  • Capsella (42)
  • Cardamine (79)
  • Cardaminopsis (2)
  • Cardaria (13)
  • Carinavalva (1)
  • Carrichtera (2)
  • Caulanthus (10)
  • Chamaeplium (1)
  • Chorispora (16)
  • Coronopus (8)
  • Dentaria (7)
  • Descurainia (170)
  • Dimorphocarpa (78)
  • Diplotaxis (13)
  • Dithyrea (5)
  • Draba (133)
  • Dryopetalon (22)
  • Erophila (5)
  • Eruca (8)
  • Erysimum (104)
  • Guillenia (1)
  • Halimolobos (18)
  • Heliophila (1)
  • Hesperis (8)
  • Hirschfeldia (2)
  • Hutchinsia (2)
  • Idahoa (1)
  • Iodanthus (1)
  • Irenepharsus (1)
  • Isatis (1)
  • Leavenworthia (2)
  • Lepidium (352)
  • Lesquerella (222)
  • Lobularia (9)
  • Lunaria (2)
  • Lyrocarpa (5)
  • Mancoa (2)
  • Matthiola (6)
  • Menkea (1)
  • Myagrum (1)
  • Nasturtium (3)
  • Nerisyrenia (102)
  • Noccaea (1)
  • Peltaria (1)
  • Pennellia (22)
  • Phlegmatospermum (2)
  • Phoenicaulis (1)
  • Physaria (30)
  • Raphanus (22)
  • Rapistrum (3)
  • Rorippa (59)
  • Schoenocrambe (53)
  • Selenia (8)
  • Sibara (7)
  • Sinapis (3)
  • Sisymbrium (113)
  • Smelowskia (3)
  • Stanleya (11)
  • Stenopetalum (2)
  • Streptanthella (4)
  • Streptanthus (132)
  • Synthlipsis (1)
  • Teesdalia (1)
  • Thelypodiopsis (15)
  • Thelypodium (36)
  • Thlaspi (57)
  • Thysanocarpus (29)
  • Tropidocarpum (7)