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CATA - Catalina Island Conservancy Herbarium Vascular Plants (CATA-Vascular)

The Catalina Island Conservancy Herbarium houses about 2,000 vascular plant specimens. All specimens were collected on Santa Catalina Island. 73% of the specimens were collected in the 1970's and 1990's by Mark L. Hoefs.

Curator, Plant Conservation Manager: Ryan Murdoff, rmurdoff@catalinaconservancy.org
Contacts: Roya Miller, RMiller@catalinaconservancy.org
Contacts: Lauren Dennhardt, LDennhardt@catalinaconservancy.org
Homepage: http://www.catalinaconservancy.org/index.php?s=about&p=about_cic
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 25d4de3b-3bf3-40ec-aed6-ca26cf996f7b
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://cch2.org/portal/content/dwca/CATA-Vascular_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Collection Statistics
  • 3,678 specimen records
  • 2,416 (66%) georeferenced
  • 3,640 (99%) identified to species
  • 118 families
  • 450 genera
  • 726 species
  • 889 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Achillea (9)
  • Achyrachaena (3)
  • Acourtia (8)
  • Agoseris (1)
  • Amblyopappus (12)
  • Ambrosia (16)
  • Anthemis (8)
  • Artemisia (14)
  • Baccharis (19)
  • Brickellia (3)
  • Carduus (5)
  • Centaurea (16)
  • Centromadia (1)
  • Chaenactis (2)
  • Cirsium (13)
  • Constancea (5)
  • Corethrogyne (8)
  • Cosmos (3)
  • Cotula (14)
  • Crepis (1)
  • Cynara (4)
  • Deinandra (19)
  • Delairea (2)
  • Dimorphotheca (1)
  • Encelia (12)
  • Ericameria (4)
  • Erigeron (11)
  • Eriophyllum (12)
  • Euthamia (1)
  • Felicia (1)
  • Gamochaeta (10)
  • Gazania (4)
  • Glebionis (1)
  • Gnaphalium (5)
  • Grindelia (2)
  • Hazardia (7)
  • Hedypnois (9)
  • Helenium (2)
  • Helminthotheca (6)
  • Heterotheca (5)
  • Hieracium (3)
  • Hypochaeris (8)
  • Isocoma (20)
  • Jaumea (5)
  • Lactuca (6)
  • Lasthenia (10)
  • Layia (9)
  • Lepidospartum (1)
  • Leptosyne (6)
  • Logfia (14)
  • Madia (6)
  • Malacothrix (21)
  • Matricaria (4)
  • Micropus (2)
  • Microseris (3)
  • Osteospermum (3)
  • Pentachaeta (2)
  • Perityle (7)
  • Plecostachys (2)
  • Pluchea (6)
  • Pseudognaphalium (52)
  • Pulicaria (1)
  • Rafinesquia (3)
  • Senecio (21)
  • Silybum (6)
  • Solidago (2)
  • Sonchus (16)
  • Stebbinsoseris (8)
  • Stephanomeria (6)
  • Stylocline (4)
  • Taraxacum (3)
  • Tragopogon (5)
  • Uropappus (5)
  • Venegasia (2)
  • Xanthium (8)