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
  • Agrimonia (13)
  • Alchemilla (2)
  • Amelanchier (25)
  • Aronia (10)
  • Aruncus (5)
  • Chaenomeles (3)
  • Cotoneaster (2)
  • Crataegus (14)
  • Cydonia (1)
  • Dalibarda (2)
  • Dryas (1)
  • Duchesnea (4)
  • Eriobotrya (1)
  • Exochorda (4)
  • Fragaria (23)
  • Geum (22)
  • Gillenia (3)
  • Holodiscus (2)
  • Kerria (2)
  • Malus (1)
  • Mespilus (2)
  • Osmaronia (1)
  • Photinia (2)
  • Physocarpus (6)
  • Potentilla (56)
  • Prunus (102)
  • Purshia (1)
  • Pyracantha (1)
  • Pyrus (23)
  • Rhodotypos (2)
  • Rosa (36)
  • Rubus (42)
  • Sanguisorba (2)
  • Sorbaria (8)
  • Sorbus (5)
  • Spiraea (31)
  • Waldsteinia (3)