New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium (NY)

With more than 7.8 million preserved specimens, the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium is the largest herbarium in the Western Hemisphere.

Interim Director: Nicole Tarnowsky, ntarnowsky@nybg.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 March 2022
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
William and Lynda Steere Herbarium; New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, New York   10458-5126
U.S.A.
718/ 817-8626
Collection Statistics
  • 1,014,069 specimen records
  • 581,482 (57%) georeferenced
  • 886,934 (87%) with images (900,811 total images)
  • 988,003 (97%) identified to species
  • 342 families
  • 4,928 genera
  • 43,015 species
  • 53,517 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Adenostegia (2)
  • Afzelia (5)
  • Agalinis (828)
  • Aureolaria (303)
  • Bartsia (16)
  • Boschniakia (1)
  • Brachystigma (3)
  • Buchnera (67)
  • Castilleja (7108)
  • Chloropyron (1)
  • Conopholis (8)
  • Cordylanthus (773)
  • Dasistoma (28)
  • Epifagus (18)
  • Eremitilla (1)
  • Escobedia (3)
  • Euchroma (2)
  • Euphrasia (67)
  • Gentrya (1)
  • Gerardia (31)
  • Lamourouxia (12)
  • Macranthera (2)
  • Melampyrum (161)
  • Myzorrhiza (1)
  • Odontites (8)
  • Ophiocephalus (1)
  • Orobanche (80)
  • Orthocarpus (561)
  • Otophylla (3)
  • Parentucellia (4)
  • Pedicularis (1945)
  • Phelypaea (2)
  • Rhinanthus (53)
  • Schwalbea (50)
  • Seymeria (35)
  • Thalesia (2)
  • Tomanthera (72)
  • Triphysaria (14)