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
  • Adolphia (35)
  • Auerodendron (1)
  • Berchemia (72)
  • Ceanothus (1083)
  • Colletia (2)
  • Colubrina (77)
  • Condalia (161)
  • Cormonema (2)
  • Frangula (5)
  • Gouania (7)
  • Hovenia (4)
  • Karwinskia (46)
  • Microrhamnus (2)
  • Reynosia (4)
  • Rhamnobrina (2)
  • Rhamnus (583)
  • Sageretia (11)
  • Ziziphus (133)