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
  • Adenophora (26)
  • Bolelia (2)
  • Burmeistera (10)
  • Campanula (825)
  • Campylocera (1)
  • Centropogon (26)
  • Clermontia (3)
  • Codonopsis (1)
  • Cyananthus (3)
  • Cyanea (1)
  • Diastatea (1)
  • Downingia (5)
  • Dysmicodon (3)
  • Githopsis (7)
  • Heterocodon (4)
  • Heterotoma (3)
  • Hippobroma (1)
  • Howellia (4)
  • Isolobus (3)
  • Isotoma (2)
  • Jasione (5)
  • Laurentia (9)
  • Lightfootia (24)
  • Lobelia (2451)
  • Merciera (11)
  • Monopsis (4)
  • Palmerella (3)
  • Parastranthus (2)
  • Peracarpa (1)
  • Phyteuma (14)
  • Prismatocarpus (22)
  • Rhigiophyllum (2)
  • Roella (16)
  • Siphocampylus (27)
  • Specularia (262)
  • Triodanis (22)
  • Tupa (1)
  • Wahlenbergia (30)