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
  • Abronia (17)
  • Acleisanthes (6)
  • Allionia (9)
  • Boerhavia (17)
  • Bougainvillea (2)
  • Calymenia (1)
  • Colignonia (4)
  • Cuscatlania (1)
  • Grajalesia (2)
  • Mirabilis (189)
  • Neea (3)
  • Nyctaginia (1)
  • Okenia (1)
  • Oxybaphus (9)
  • Pisonia (2)
  • Selinocarpus (2)
  • Tripterocalyx (1)