Home >> Collection Search Page >> New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium Details

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.
Contacts: Barbara Thiers, Herbarium Director, bthiers@nybg.org
Homepage: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 January 2021
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
Collection Statistics
  • 922,069 specimen records
  • 498,361 (54%) georeferenced
  • 867,483 (94%) with images (880,797 total images)
  • 889,740 (96%) identified to species
  • 339 families
  • 4,660 genera
  • 39,002 species
  • 48,538 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that family