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
  • Acanthogonum (4)
  • Aconogonon (124)
  • Antenoron (2)
  • Antigonon (9)
  • Atraphaxis (1)
  • Bistorta (631)
  • Brunnichia (59)
  • Campderia (1)
  • Centrostegia (67)
  • Cephalophilon (1)
  • Chorizanthe (494)
  • Coccoloba (38)
  • Dedeckera (11)
  • Delopyrum (2)
  • Dentoceras (2)
  • Emex (6)
  • Eriogonum (12278)
  • Fagopyrum (29)
  • Fallopia (217)
  • Gilmania (6)
  • Goodmania (8)
  • Hollisteria (5)
  • Homalocladium (2)
  • Johanneshowellia (32)
  • Koenigia (6)
  • Lastarriaea (1)
  • Mucronea (4)
  • Muehlenbeckia (4)
  • Nemacaulis (7)
  • Neomillspaughia (23)
  • Oxyria (444)
  • Oxytheca (205)
  • Persicaria (2552)
  • Podopterus (1)
  • Polygonella (177)
  • Polygonum (2109)
  • Pterostegia (47)
  • Reynoutria (56)
  • Rheum (25)
  • Rumex (3730)
  • Ruprechtia (4)
  • Stenogonum (124)
  • Thysanella (2)
  • Tovara (103)
  • Triplaris (5)
  • Truellum (127)