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
  • Allophyton (1)
  • Amphianthus (16)
  • Angelonia (5)
  • Antirrhinum (140)
  • Bacopa (133)
  • Besseya (329)
  • Callitriche (482)
  • Chaenorhinum (50)
  • Chelone (144)
  • Chionophila (118)
  • Collinsia (543)
  • Conobea (2)
  • Cymbalaria (21)
  • Digitalis (65)
  • Galvezia (2)
  • Globifera (1)
  • Gratiola (406)
  • Hebe (5)
  • Herpestis (2)
  • Keckiella (524)
  • Kickxia (9)
  • Lagotis (3)
  • Leucospora (72)
  • Limnophila (1)
  • Linaria (274)
  • Lophospermum (7)
  • Mabrya (7)
  • Maurandella (4)
  • Maurandya (148)
  • Mecardonia (155)
  • Misopates (5)
  • Mohavea (65)
  • Monniera (2)
  • Nothochelone (67)
  • Nuttallanthus (291)
  • Ourisia (1)
  • Penstemon (20279)
  • Plantago (442)
  • Russelia (28)
  • Saccularia (3)
  • Schistophragma (13)
  • Scoparia (20)
  • Sophronanthe (5)
  • Stemodia (34)
  • Synthyris (238)
  • Tonella (36)
  • Uroskinnera (3)
  • Veronica (2614)
  • Veronicastrum (95)
  • Wulfenia (3)