Founded in 1970 by Dr. Wesley E. Niles, the herbarium now holds about 70,000 specimens. Its primary focus is the vascular plant diversity in the Mojave Desert regions of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California. In 2023, the herbarium was transferred to the College of Southern Nevada. It is housed in the building A of the Henderson campus. Important collections include those of T. Ackerman (Desert National Wildlife Refuge); J. C. Beatley (Nevada Test Site); V. Bostick (central and southern Nevada); D. Charlet (Nevada); I.W. Clokey (Spring Mountains); M.Kurzius, D. Schramm, P. Peterson, and C. Annabel (Death Valley, California, and Nevada); S. Meyer (southern Nevada); A. Tiehm, A. Pinzl, and H. Mozingo (central and northern Nevada); W. Niles, P. Leary, J. Holland, and J. Alexander (Nevada, California, and Arizona), and L. Stark (bryophytes of southwestern deserts).
Email marcus.hooker@csn.edu to request access to redacted data.
UNLV - College of Southern Nevada; Wesley E. Niles Herbarium. Occurrence dataset (ID: ) accessed via the Symbiota Local Portal Portal, https://dev010.symbiota.org/Portal, 2026-06-22).
- 10,780 (16%) georeferenced
- 3,941 (6%) with media (3,941 total media)
- 65,977 (98%) specimen records
- 227 Families
- 1,553 Genera
- 6,718 Species
- 9,570 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
