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
  • Anagallis (83)
  • Androsace (717)
  • Ardisia (14)
  • Centunculus (20)
  • Clavija (1)
  • Cyclamen (7)
  • Dodecatheon (841)
  • Douglasia (54)
  • Exinia (1)
  • Gentlea (1)
  • Glaux (140)
  • Hottonia (31)
  • Ibarraea (1)
  • Icacorea (1)
  • Jacquinia (14)
  • Lysimachia (791)
  • Myrsine (2)
  • Parathesis (14)
  • Primula (422)
  • Rapanea (2)
  • Samolus (240)
  • Steironema (9)
  • Synardisia (1)
  • Trientalis (66)
  • Wallenia (1)