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
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
  • Aconitum (515)
  • Actaea (444)
  • Adonis (26)
  • Anemone (1529)
  • Anemonella (1)
  • Anemonopsis (1)
  • Aquilegia (1505)
  • Atragene (2)
  • Batrachium (2)
  • Beckwithia (1)
  • Caltha (395)
  • Ceratocephala (130)
  • Ceratocephalus (2)
  • Chrysocoptis (1)
  • Cimicifuga (131)
  • Clematis (1615)
  • Consolida (43)
  • Coptis (161)
  • Cyrtorhyncha (1)
  • Delphinium (2635)
  • Enemion (22)
  • Eranthis (11)
  • Ficaria (10)
  • Helleborus (14)
  • Hepatica (18)
  • Hydrastis (24)
  • Isopyrum (3)
  • Myosurus (293)
  • Nigella (22)
  • Psychrophila (1)
  • Ranunculus (5033)
  • Thalictrum (1400)
  • Trautvetteria (87)
  • Trollius (215)
  • Viorna (3)
  • Xanthorhiza (28)