Jepson Herbarium - University of California Berkeley
University of California
1001 Valley Life Sciences Building #2465
Berkeley, California 94720-2465
United States
Andrew Doran, Assistant Director, Collections
Email: andrewdoran@berkeley.edu
The Jepson Herbarium comprises a collection of ca. 96,000 specimens of vascular plants of California, housed with the University Herbarium (UC) at University of California Berkeley. While UC is state funded, JEPS is privately endowed. It was established in 1950 by a bequest from Willis Linn Jepson, the first doctoral graduate from the UC Berkeley Botany Department (1898) and then a professor until 1937. Recent donations from supporters of the Jepson Herbarium have added significantly to the original endowment.
The core of the herbarium consists of Jepson's personal collections and other vouchers for his Flora of California. Subsequent additions have largely been collections made by JEPS staff members or sent to them for verification, especially by native plant enthusiasts. In addition to the plant collections, the Jepson Herbarium also includes a diversity of other resources, including the Jepson library and archives.