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
  • Aletris (115)
  • Aloe (2)
  • Amianthium (2)
  • Anthericum (14)
  • Anticlea (4)
  • Asphodelus (2)
  • Beaucarnea (20)
  • Brodiaea (26)
  • Calochortus (176)
  • Camassia (9)
  • Chamaelirium (32)
  • Chlorogalum (6)
  • Clintonia (343)
  • Colchicum (7)
  • Convallaria (54)
  • Cyclobothra (1)
  • Dichelostemma (1)
  • Disporum (1)
  • Echeandia (18)
  • Eremurus (1)
  • Erythronium (284)
  • Fritillaria (68)
  • Glyphosperma (1)
  • Harperocallis (1)
  • Hastingsia (3)
  • Hemerocallis (77)
  • Hemiphylacus (2)
  • Hesperocallis (1)
  • Hesperoscordum (1)
  • Hookera (2)
  • Hornungia (105)
  • Hosta (10)
  • Leucocrinum (4)
  • Lilium (751)
  • Liriope (3)
  • Lloydia (4)
  • Maianthemum (1283)
  • Melanthium (1)
  • Muscari (20)
  • Ornithogalum (48)
  • Othocallis (3)
  • Phalangium (1)
  • Polygonatum (369)
  • Prosartes (6)
  • Schoenocaulon (16)
  • Schoenolirion (3)
  • Scilla (11)
  • Smilacina (10)
  • Stenanthium (10)
  • Streptopus (381)
  • Tofieldia (74)
  • Toxicoscordion (8)
  • Triantha (1)
  • Tricyrtis (3)
  • Trillium (950)
  • Tulipa (2)
  • Uvularia (672)
  • Vagnera (2)
  • Veratrum (114)
  • Xerophyllum (1)
  • Zigadenus (8)