Staten Island Museum (SIM)

The Staten Island Museum herbarium (SIM) contains over 25,000 specimens, focused on the flora of Staten Island and the northeastern United States. It is a complete record of the flora of Staten Island, from the 1860s to the present. The core of the herbarium was donated by co-founders Arthur Hollick and Nathaniel Lord Britton, and is composed of specimens they collected during the 1870s-1880s. Specialized sub-collections include hybrid oaks (Hollick/Britton/Davis) and hybrid violets and ferns (Philip Dowell). Aside from vascular plants, the collection also contains mosses, lichens, algae, fungi and slime molds.

Contacts: Colleen Evans, cevans@statenislandmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ce5d3f76-3855-4cda-aaf9-fce6d12f7bfb
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 26,107 specimen records
  • 19,335 (74%) georeferenced
  • 26,107 (100%) with images (26,209 total images)
  • 22,777 (87%) identified to species
  • 211 families
  • 1,150 genera
  • 3,939 species
  • 4,197 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Alliaria (1)
  • Alyssum (3)
  • Arabidopsis (12)
  • Arabis (46)
  • Armoracia (7)
  • Barbarea (21)
  • Biscutella (1)
  • Brassica (47)
  • Braya (1)
  • Cakile (4)
  • Camelina (7)
  • Capsella (18)
  • Cardamine (47)
  • Cardaria (1)
  • Cheirinia (4)
  • Cochlearia (1)
  • Conringia (2)
  • Coronopus (2)
  • Dentaria (27)
  • Descurainia (1)
  • Diplotaxis (5)
  • Draba (20)
  • Erysimum (11)
  • Hesperis (7)
  • Iberis (2)
  • Lepidium (39)
  • Lesquerella (1)
  • Lobularia (2)
  • Lunaria (3)
  • Nasturtium (10)
  • Neslia (1)
  • Raphanus (10)
  • Rapistrum (4)
  • Rorippa (24)
  • Sisymbrium (21)
  • Sophia (2)
  • Streptanthus (2)
  • Subularia (1)
  • Thlaspi (3)
  • Thysanocarpus (2)