New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium (NY)

With more than 7.8 million preserved specimens, the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium is the largest herbarium in the Western Hemisphere.

Interim Director: Nicole Tarnowsky, ntarnowsky@nybg.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 March 2022
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Address:
William and Lynda Steere Herbarium; New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York   10458-5126
U.S.A.
718/ 817-8626
Collection Statistics
  • 1,014,069 specimen records
  • 581,482 (57%) georeferenced
  • 886,934 (87%) with images (900,811 total images)
  • 988,003 (97%) identified to species
  • 342 families
  • 4,928 genera
  • 43,015 species
  • 53,517 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Agapanthus (3)
  • Allium (3770)
  • Amaryllis (3)
  • Cooperia (4)
  • Crinum (10)
  • Galanthus (37)
  • Habranthus (20)
  • Haemanthus (1)
  • Hippeastrum (2)
  • Hymenocallis (172)
  • Ipheion (1)
  • Leucojum (2)
  • Lycoris (2)
  • Narcissus (130)
  • Nothoscordum (18)
  • Pancratium (3)
  • Stropholirion (2)
  • Tulbaghia (1)
  • Zephyranthes (375)