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
  • Agrimonia (27)
  • Amelanchier (72)
  • Aphanes (1)
  • Argentina (2)
  • Aronia (64)
  • Aruncus (2)
  • Cercocarpus (1)
  • Crataegus (76)
  • Cydonia (4)
  • Dalibarda (5)
  • Duchesnea (8)
  • Fallugia (1)
  • Filipendula (2)
  • Fragaria (35)
  • Geum (31)
  • Gillenia (7)
  • Heteromeles (3)
  • Horkelia (2)
  • Kerria (2)
  • Malus (2)
  • Physocarpus (11)
  • Potentilla (93)
  • Prunus (103)
  • Pyrus (28)
  • Rosa (109)
  • Rubus (188)
  • Sanguisorba (10)
  • Sibbaldiopsis (1)
  • Sieversia (1)
  • Sorbaria (3)
  • Sorbus (10)
  • Spiraea (35)
  • Waldsteinia (4)