**Code**: [WTU](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126887) **Organization**: University of Washington **Department**: Burke Museum **Location**: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. **Total number of specimens**: 700000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1882 **Taxonomic coverage**: Vascular plants, nonvascular plants, macrofungi, lichenized fungi, and marine algae **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide, especially Pacific Northwest, western North America, and northern Pacific Rim. **Incorporated herbaria**: LAGO (in part). **Important collectors**: L. Abrams, J.F. Ammirati, W.H. Baker, G. Beck, J.W. Blankinship, E. Bauer, W.C. Cusick, M. Denton, A.D.E. Elmer, C.S. English, W.J. Eyerdam, J.B. Flett, T.C. Frye, D.E. Giblin, K. Glew, A.J. Grout, A.A. Heller, L.F. Henderson, C.L. Hitchcock, J.W. Hotson, G. Howard, T.J. Howell, A.R. Kruckeberg, G.A. Laursen, E. Lawton, B.S. Legler, J.B. Leiberg, C.L. Lesquereux, J. Macoun, J.F. Macbride, A. Nelson, R.E. Norris, R.G. Olmstead, M.E. Peck, J.H. Sandberg, R.B. Setzer, W.S. Sullivant, H. St. John, D.E. Stuntz, W.N. Suksdorf, J.W. Thompson, **Notes**: Updated July 2020. WTU staff published Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd edition in October 2018. WTU manages the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria online database: http://www.pnwherbaria.org/index.php WTU staff developed and manage the Plants and Fungi of Washington Image Collection (https://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php), which provides photographs, distribution maps, and descriptive information for Washington's vascular plants, macrofungi, and lichenized fungi. For all non-U.S. Postal Service shipments, please use the following address: Herbarium, 1521 NE Pacific Street, Room 30 Hitchcock Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-5325 **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2022-04-13 > [!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.