Harvard University Herbaria: Vascular Plants of North America (Harvard)

The Harvard University Herbaria, with over 5 million specimens, is the world’s largest University Herbaria. Included in the Herbaria are what were once six separate herbarium collections: * Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum (A) * Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames (ECON) * Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium (AMES) * Farlow Herbarium (FH) * Gray Herbarium (GH) * New England Botanical Club Herbarium (NEBC).
Contacts: Jonathan Kennedy, jonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Contacts: HUH Requests, huh-requests@oeb.harvard.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 11 May 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 1,029,015 specimen records
  • 3,559 (0.35%) georeferenced
  • 971,102 (94%) with images (1,830,101 total images)
  • 999,335 (97%) identified to species
  • 322 families
  • 4,697 genera
  • 40,688 species
  • 48,993 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acerates (7)
  • Amphistelma (4)
  • Amphorella (1)
  • Araujia (1)
  • Asclepias (4945)
  • Asclepiodora (1)
  • Astephanus (5)
  • Cynanchum (325)
  • Decastelma (1)
  • Dictyanthus (8)
  • Dischidia (1)
  • Ditassa (1)
  • Ecliptostelma (1)
  • Fischeria (6)
  • Funastrum (174)
  • Gomphocarpus (4)
  • Gonolobus (137)
  • Himantostemma (1)
  • Hoya (2)
  • Ibatia (1)
  • Jacaima (1)
  • Lachnostoma (3)
  • Lyonia (209)
  • Macroscepis (2)
  • Marsdenia (24)
  • Matelea (202)
  • Melinia (1)
  • Mellichampia (1)
  • Metalepis (2)
  • Metastelma (78)
  • Microdactylon (1)
  • Nephradenia (2)
  • Orthosia (44)
  • Oxypetalum (1)
  • Pattalias (1)
  • Pherotrichis (6)
  • Philibertella (1)
  • Philibertia (2)
  • Podostemma (2)
  • Poicilla (2)
  • Polyotus (1)
  • Polystemma (2)
  • Prosthecidiscus (2)
  • Rothrockia (4)
  • Roulinia (2)
  • Rouliniella (5)
  • Sarcostemma (6)
  • Schubertia (1)
  • Seutera (55)
  • Stapelia (3)
  • Tylodontia (1)
  • Urostephanus (1)
  • Vincetoxicum (23)