Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (PH)

The herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH) is the oldest institutional herbarium in the United States. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850. The diatom herbarium (ANSP) is managed separately.

Curator: Tatyana Livshultz, tl534@drexel.edu
Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, ans_ph_herbarium@drexel.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 019a3280-a69f-4312-bb30-8556e270f1a5
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 605,897 specimen records
  • 284,230 (47%) georeferenced
  • 596,067 (98%) with images (601,305 total images)
  • 560,017 (92%) identified to species
  • 443 families
  • 5,614 genera
  • 33,359 species
  • 36,219 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Aethionema (1)
  • Alliaria (208)
  • Alyssum (109)
  • Anchonium (1)
  • Aphragmus (1)
  • Arabidopsis (720)
  • Arabis (996)
  • Armoracia (116)
  • Aubrieta (2)
  • Barbarea (731)
  • Berteroa (61)
  • Biscutella (4)
  • Boechera (6)
  • Brachycarpaea (1)
  • Brassica (601)
  • Braya (8)
  • Bunias (2)
  • Cakile (155)
  • Camelina (201)
  • Capsella (362)
  • Cardamine (2120)
  • Cardaria (54)
  • Carponema (2)
  • Caulanthus (3)
  • Cheiranthus (12)
  • Chorispora (1)
  • Clypeola (2)
  • Cochlearia (8)
  • Coincya (14)
  • Conringia (45)
  • Coronopus (54)
  • Crambe (1)
  • Cremolobus (1)
  • Crucifera (1)
  • Dentaria (16)
  • Descurainia (29)
  • Dichroanthus (2)
  • Dimorphocarpa (1)
  • Diplotaxis (50)
  • Draba (449)
  • Dryopetalon (1)
  • Enarthrocarpus (1)
  • Eruca (4)
  • Erucaria (1)
  • Erucastrum (13)
  • Erysimum (205)
  • Farsetia (3)
  • Greggia (2)
  • Heliophila (72)
  • Hesperis (239)
  • Hussonia (1)
  • Hutchinsia (3)
  • Hymenolobus (8)
  • Iberis (28)
  • Iodanthus (9)
  • Isatis (3)
  • Jondraba (1)
  • Leavenworthia (10)
  • Lepidium (1085)
  • Lepidotrichum (1)
  • Lesquerella (7)
  • Lobularia (58)
  • Lunaria (24)
  • Lyrocarpa (2)
  • Malcolmia (2)
  • Mathewsia (1)
  • Matthiola (5)
  • Menonvillea (1)
  • Moricandia (1)
  • Myagrum (4)
  • Nasturtium (213)
  • Neslia (4)
  • Odontarrhena (3)
  • Ornithocarpa (1)
  • Pastorea (1)
  • Pendulina (1)
  • Phoenicaulis (3)
  • Physaria (2)
  • Ptilotrichum (2)
  • Radicula (3)
  • Raphanus (255)
  • Rapistrum (14)
  • Rhynchosinapis (1)
  • Ricotia (1)
  • Romanschulzia (2)
  • Rorippa (762)
  • Schivereckia (2)
  • Schlechteria (1)
  • Selenia (4)
  • Senebiera (1)
  • Sinapis (3)
  • Sisymbrium (483)
  • Sophia (3)
  • Stanleya (10)
  • Streptanthus (16)
  • Synthlipsis (3)
  • Taphrospermum (1)
  • Teesdalia (23)
  • Tetrapterygium (1)
  • Thelypodium (4)
  • Thlaspi (289)
  • Thysanocarpus (14)
  • Tropidocarpum (5)
  • Turritis (11)
  • Vesicaria (35)
  • Warea (4)