Royal British Colombia Museum Herbarium

The Royal British Columbia Museum botany collection consists of more than 215,000 dried plant specimens housed in our herbarium, including 208,000 vascular plants, 7,000 mosses and lichens, and 450 boxed cones.  Our collection includes specimens of most vascular plants native to BC, and many that have become naturalized.  Many species are represented by collections from the 1890’s. We have about 70 ‘type’ specimens, each of which was used in the original published description of a new species or subspecies, as required by international standards. The RBCM botany collection is one of the two largest reference collections of BC plants in the world.

Materials contributed by Royal British Colombia Museum Herbarium (V):

• Specimens