**Code**: [SBBG](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125868) **Organization**: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden **Department**: Department of Conservation and Research **Location**: Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A. **Total number of specimens**: 210000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1939 **Taxonomic coverage**: Native, non-native naturalized, and cultivated vascular plants; native lichens; bryophytes; macrofungi **Geographic coverage**: California and adjacent U.S. and Mexico; offshore islands of California and Baja California **Incorporated herbaria**: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBM) except algae (ca. 24,000 specimens) in 1985, University of California Riverside (UCR) lichenarium (ca. 16,000 specimens) in 2022. **Important collectors**: E. R. Blakley, E. R. Chandler, H. Dearing, M. Dearing, M. B. Dunkle, A. D. E. Elmer, F. Franceschi, C. B. Hardham, R. E. Hoffmann, S. A. Junak, D. W. Myrick, H. M. Pollard, P. H. Raven, R. W. Summers, E. C. Twisselmann, L. G. Yates, S. C. Tucker, C. C. Bratt **Notes**: SBBG is a participating member of the Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH1 and CCH2). Specimen data (label data and high resolution images) are live managed and made publicly available on the Consortium of California Herbaria 2 website (cch2.org). **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2023-02-06 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.