Howard University Herbarium (HUDC)

The Howard University Herbarium (HUDC) is a collection of ca. 12,000 plant specimens housed in Just Hall on Howard University’s main campus. The collection includes a donation from the former Catholic University herbarium, with >1000 specimens from the Caribbean collected between 1890-1920. Other collection strengths include plants of the Mid-Atlantic, especially the DC metropolitan area. Charles Parker, Marie Clark Taylor and H. David Hammond also made substantial contributions the Howard University Herbarium.

Contacts: Janelle Burke, Ph.D., janelle.burke@howard.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5b6e6b41-e610-4740-888e-27f347ba293b
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 8,789 specimen records
  • 4,228 (48%) georeferenced
  • 8,789 (100%) with images (8,794 total images)
  • 7,594 (86%) identified to species
  • 195 families
  • 998 genera
  • 2,574 species
  • 2,702 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Alliaria (10)
  • Alyssum (1)
  • Arabidopsis (12)
  • Arabis (13)
  • Barbarea (18)
  • Berteroa (2)
  • Brassica (8)
  • Cakile (5)
  • Capsella (14)
  • Cardamine (26)
  • Cardaminopsis (1)
  • Cochlearia (1)
  • Dentaria (14)
  • Descurainia (1)
  • Diplotaxis (1)
  • Draba (3)
  • Erysimum (3)
  • Hesperis (6)
  • Iberis (2)
  • Isatis (2)
  • Lepidium (29)
  • Lobularia (1)
  • Lunaria (1)
  • Nasturtium (3)
  • Radicula (2)
  • Rorippa (11)
  • Sisymbrium (11)
  • Teesdalia (1)
  • Thlaspi (2)