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
  • Acinos (1)
  • Aegiphila (2)
  • Agastache (63)
  • Ajuga (12)
  • Asterohyptis (5)
  • Ballota (3)
  • Becium (1)
  • Betonica (2)
  • Blephilia (5)
  • Brazoria (16)
  • Calamintha (5)
  • Callicarpa (19)
  • Caryopteris (1)
  • Cedronella (1)
  • Clerodendrum (17)
  • Clinopodium (17)
  • Coleus (2)
  • Collinsonia (6)
  • Congea (1)
  • Conradina (6)
  • Cornutia (1)
  • Cunila (4)
  • Dicerandra (2)
  • Dicrastylis (4)
  • Dracocephalum (10)
  • Epimeredi (1)
  • Galeobdolon (1)
  • Galeopsis (20)
  • Glechoma (8)
  • Glecoma (1)
  • Gmelina (1)
  • Hedeoma (163)
  • Hyptis (49)
  • Lamium (78)
  • Lavandula (2)
  • Leonotis (5)
  • Leonurus (2)
  • Lepechinia (4)
  • Leucas (2)
  • Lycopus (20)
  • Marrubium (42)
  • Melissa (4)
  • Mentha (57)
  • Mesona (1)
  • Micromeria (1)
  • Moluccella (1)
  • Monarda (134)
  • Monardella (36)
  • Nepeta (4)
  • Newcastelia (1)
  • Ocimum (10)
  • Origanum (4)
  • Orthosiphon (1)
  • Paraphlomis (1)
  • Perilla (10)
  • Perovskia (1)
  • Phlomis (3)
  • Physostegia (28)
  • Piloblephis (1)
  • Pityrodia (2)
  • Plectranthus (5)
  • Pogogyne (5)
  • Poliomintha (26)
  • Premna (5)
  • Prostanthera (7)
  • Prunella (41)
  • Pycnanthemum (40)
  • Rabdosia (1)
  • Rhododon (3)
  • Rosmarinus (12)
  • Salazaria (16)
  • Salvia (438)
  • Satureja (11)
  • Scutellaria (112)
  • Sideritis (2)
  • Solenostemon (2)
  • Spartothamnella (1)
  • Stachys (82)
  • Suzukia (1)
  • Synandra (1)
  • Teijsmanniodendron (1)
  • Tetraclea (47)
  • Teucrium (61)
  • Thymus (9)
  • Trichostema (42)
  • Vitex (23)
  • Volkameria (2)
  • Warnockia (1)
  • Westringia (5)