Iowa State University Herbarium

Deborah Lewis1, Annie Simpson2

1 Iowa State University, 340 Bessey Hall, 50011, Ames, United States; 2 U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr, Mailstop 302, 20192, Reston, United States

Corresponding author(s): Deborah Lewis (dlewis@iastate.edu), Annie Simpson (asimpson@usgs.gov)

Received {date}; Revised {date}; Accepted {date}; Published {date}

Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Lewis D (2022): Iowa State University Herbarium. v1.8. United States Geological Survey. Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.herbarium.iastate.edu https://www.herbarium.iastate.edu

Abstract

The Ada Hayden (Iowa State University) Herbarium has the largest collection of Iowa plants and fungi, containing over 600,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, fungi, and lichens. This dataset describes 24,775 specimens from the Plantae collection. For the Fungi collection, please see iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/4b92de1f-866d-4b82-af69-37d46753f289).

Keywords: Metadata, Metadata, North America (continent), United States (nation), State of Iowa, Specimen

General description

Additional information: Georeferenced coordinates that are provided are calculated centroids that were added during data processing by USGS BISON based on provided county names, and mentioned in georeferenceRemarks. County FIPS codes were derived during data cleaning and appear in the higherGeographyID field.

Data published through GBIF: https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=iowa-herbarium

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: 541 plant names at the Genus level and below (mostly species).
Taxonomic ranks
Genus: Carex

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The state of Iowa.
Coordinates: 40°23'49.2''N and 43°29'6''N Latitude; 96°36'50.4''W and 90°9'14.4''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1813 - 2012

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: not applicable
Collection name: Ada Hayden Herbarium at Iowa State University (ISC)
Collection identifier: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15619

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Iowa State University Herbarium
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/archive.do?r=iowa-herbarium
Publication date of data: 2022-12-29
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-12-15
Hierarchy level: Dataset