Howard University Herbarium (HUDC)

The Howard University Herbarium (HUDC) is a collection of ca. 12,000 plant specimens housed in Just Hall on Howard University’s main campus. The collection includes a donation from the former Catholic University herbarium, with >1000 specimens from the Caribbean collected between 1890-1920. Other collection strengths include plants of the Mid-Atlantic, especially the DC metropolitan area. Charles Parker, Marie Clark Taylor and H. David Hammond also made substantial contributions the Howard University Herbarium.

Contacts: Janelle Burke, Ph.D., janelle.burke@howard.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5b6e6b41-e610-4740-888e-27f347ba293b
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 8,789 specimen records
  • 4,228 (48%) georeferenced
  • 8,789 (100%) with images (8,794 total images)
  • 7,594 (86%) identified to species
  • 195 families
  • 998 genera
  • 2,574 species
  • 2,702 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Agastache (3)
  • Ajuga (2)
  • Ballota (1)
  • Calamintha (2)
  • Callicarpa (7)
  • Caryopteris (2)
  • Clerodendrum (6)
  • Coleus (3)
  • Collinsonia (10)
  • Cunila (4)
  • Galeopsis (2)
  • Glechoma (19)
  • Hedeoma (8)
  • Hyptis (1)
  • Isanthus (1)
  • Lamium (11)
  • Leonotis (1)
  • Leonurus (4)
  • Lycopus (28)
  • Melissa (1)
  • Mentha (14)
  • Monarda (7)
  • Monardella (1)
  • Nepeta (7)
  • Ocimum (1)
  • Origanum (3)
  • Perilla (2)
  • Physostegia (6)
  • Prunella (15)
  • Pycnanthemum (14)
  • Salvia (12)
  • Satureja (13)
  • Scutellaria (39)
  • Stachys (9)
  • Teucrium (10)
  • Thymus (3)
  • Trichostema (5)