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
  • Alonsoa (11)
  • Aphyllon (3)
  • Buddleja (171)
  • Capraria (9)
  • Celsia (3)
  • Diascia (2)
  • Emorya (3)
  • Eremophila (2)
  • Faxonanthus (1)
  • Freylinia (3)
  • Leucophyllum (101)
  • Limosella (197)
  • Myoporum (2)
  • Nemesia (8)
  • Nuxia (3)
  • Phelipaea (1)
  • Polypremum (87)
  • Sanango (1)
  • Scrophularia (487)
  • Sutera (3)
  • Verbascum (248)
  • Zaluzianskya (2)