**Code**: [CAFB](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125550)
**Organization**: Northern Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service
**Division**: Canadian Forest Service
**Department**: Natural Resources Canada
**Location**: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
**Total number of specimens**: 37500
**Current status**: Active
**Date founded**: 1971
**Taxonomic coverage**: Vascular plants; bryophytes; lichens
**Geographic coverage**: Western and northern Canada, especially Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and Northwest and Yukon territories
**Incorporated herbaria**: Part of SAFB, part of WINF, Canadian Wildlife Service, Edmonton.
**Important collectors**: D. Mueller-Dombois, J. S. Rowe, S. Kojima, R. T. Ogilvie, P. Achuff, K. Timoney, J. D. Johnson
**Notes**: Updated Feb. 2023 (contact information); partial database rebuilt; 25% of vascular plants, 95% of bryophytes, and 100% of lichens electronically databased as of Dec. 2022; CAFB (Calgary) moved to Edmonton in 1971.
**Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2023-02-10
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