Life Sciences

The Natural History Collections are comprised of nine collections that directly support the University's teaching, research, and public outreach functions. Our holdings emphasize flora and fauna from the arid southwest of North America, especially Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. Collectively, our holdings rank among the largest collections of Sonoran desert biota in the world.

Located at ASU’s Tempe campus and Polytechnic Campus, the Arboretum collections include palms and palm-like plants, deciduous trees, fruit-bearing trees, conifers, evergreen trees, desert trees, cacti, succulents, and desert accent plants.

The Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium is the second largest in the Arid Southwest with over 290,000 specimens.

ION will ultimately contain all the organism names related data found within the Thomson Reuters life science literature databases.

The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and fern allies.

The NCBI Taxonomy Database is a curated classification and nomenclature for all of the organisms in the public sequence databases. This currently represents about 10% of the described species of life on the planet.

A nationwide educational network of scientists and educators.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

Educational images for instructional use from BSA.

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious, even audacious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth.

Information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

The journal is devoted to botanical and mycological papers. Contributions may include those to the Vascular Plants of Arizona (VPA) project, checklists, local floras, new records for Arizona and ecological studies. All manuscripts are peer-reviewed.