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
  • Alliaria (119)
  • Alyssoides (2)
  • Alyssum (425)
  • Anelsonia (5)
  • Arabidopsis (154)
  • Arabis (4010)
  • Armoracia (32)
  • Asta (2)
  • Athysanus (31)
  • Aubrieta (18)
  • Aurinia (2)
  • Barbarea (356)
  • Berteroa (90)
  • Boechera (209)
  • Brassica (274)
  • Braya (13)
  • Bunias (9)
  • Cakile (97)
  • Calepina (8)
  • Camelina (209)
  • Capsella (207)
  • Cardamine (1220)
  • Cardaria (209)
  • Cartiera (1)
  • Caulanthus (518)
  • Caulostramina (2)
  • Cheiranthus (9)
  • Cheirinia (1)
  • Chlorocrambe (25)
  • Chorispora (156)
  • Cibotarium (3)
  • Cochlearia (23)
  • Coincya (9)
  • Conringia (71)
  • Coronopus (26)
  • Cusickiella (39)
  • Dentaria (8)
  • Descurainia (1400)
  • Dimorphocarpa (151)
  • Diplotaxis (40)
  • Disaccanthus (1)
  • Dithyrea (93)
  • Draba (2636)
  • Dryopetalon (33)
  • Erophila (4)
  • Eruca (16)
  • Erucastrum (16)
  • Erysimum (1089)
  • Euclidium (7)
  • Eutrema (1)
  • Glaucocarpum (7)
  • Guillenia (62)
  • Halimolobos (113)
  • Heliophila (4)
  • Hesperidanthus (1)
  • Hesperis (95)
  • Hirschfeldia (4)
  • Hornungia (11)
  • Hutchinsia (108)
  • Hymenolobus (7)
  • Iberis (50)
  • Idahoa (35)
  • Iodanthus (23)
  • Ionopsidium (2)
  • Isatis (79)
  • Laelia (1)
  • Leavenworthia (39)
  • Lepidium (2741)
  • Lesquerella (1898)
  • Lobularia (23)
  • Lunaria (7)
  • Lyrocarpa (12)
  • Malcolmia (98)
  • Mancoa (1)
  • Matthiola (10)
  • Mesoreanthus (1)
  • Microsisymbrium (5)
  • Microthlaspi (2)
  • Nasturtium (295)
  • Nerisyrenia (164)
  • Nevada (16)
  • Noccaea (19)
  • Ornithocarpa (2)
  • Pachypodium (1)
  • Parrya (42)
  • Pennellia (52)
  • Phoenicaulis (162)
  • Physaria (1446)
  • Pilosella (6)
  • Planodes (1)
  • Pleurophragma (2)
  • Polyctenium (97)
  • Radicula (2)
  • Raphanorhyncha (1)
  • Raphanus (67)
  • Rapistrum (2)
  • Romanschulzia (4)
  • Rorippa (1795)
  • Schoenocrambe (366)
  • Selenia (58)
  • Sibara (38)
  • Sibaropsis (1)
  • Sinapis (87)
  • Sisymbrium (394)
  • Smelowskia (171)
  • Sophia (57)
  • Sprengeria (1)
  • Stanleya (616)
  • Streptanthella (193)
  • Streptanthus (444)
  • Strigosella (1)
  • Stroganowia (11)
  • Subularia (14)
  • Synthlipsis (19)
  • Syrenia (1)
  • Teesdalia (23)
  • Thellungiella (2)
  • Thelypodiopsis (210)
  • Thelypodium (844)
  • Thlaspi (739)
  • Thysanocarpus (215)
  • Transberingia (1)
  • Trentepohlia (1)
  • Tropidocarpum (13)
  • Turritis (15)
  • Vesicaria (15)
  • Warea (49)