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
  • Aegilops (1)
  • Agropyron (6)
  • Agrostis (8)
  • Aira (6)
  • Airopsis (2)
  • Alopecurus (5)
  • Ammophila (2)
  • Andropogon (1)
  • Anthoxanthum (6)
  • Aristida (5)
  • Arrhenatherum (1)
  • Arundinaria (1)
  • Bambusa (1)
  • Beckmannia (1)
  • Bouteloua (2)
  • Bromus (20)
  • Cenchrus (3)
  • Chaetochloa (1)
  • Chloris (2)
  • Chrysopogon (2)
  • Cinna (1)
  • Coix (1)
  • Ctenium (1)
  • Cynodon (4)
  • Dactylis (10)
  • Dactyloctenium (1)
  • Danthonia (2)
  • Deschampsia (3)
  • Diarrhena (1)
  • Digitaria (3)
  • Distichlis (3)
  • Eatonia (2)
  • Echinochloa (9)
  • Eleusine (2)
  • Elymus (9)
  • Eragrostis (10)
  • Eriocoma (1)
  • Festuca (3)
  • Glyceria (4)
  • Gymnostichum (1)
  • Holcus (2)
  • Hordeum (2)
  • Hystrix (1)
  • Lagurus (1)
  • Leersia (3)
  • Leptochloa (1)
  • Lolium (5)
  • Melica (2)
  • Miscanthus (1)
  • Muhlenbergia (3)
  • Oplismenus (1)
  • Oryza (2)
  • Oryzopsis (3)
  • Panicum (56)
  • Paspalum (11)
  • Pennisetum (3)
  • Phalaris (1)
  • Phleum (4)
  • Phragmites (3)
  • Phyllostachys (3)
  • Poa (13)
  • Setaria (25)
  • Sorghastrum (2)
  • Spartina (8)
  • Sphenopholis (2)
  • Stipa (4)
  • Syntherisma (1)
  • Tricuspis (2)
  • Tridens (2)
  • Tripsacum (4)
  • Trisetum (2)
  • Triticum (4)
  • Uniola (3)
  • Vilfa (4)
  • Zizania (2)