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
  • Angelonia (4)
  • Antirrhinum (321)
  • Bacopa (286)
  • Besseya (166)
  • Callitriche (1290)
  • Chaenorhinum (165)
  • Chelone (605)
  • Chionophila (58)
  • Collinsia (1016)
  • Conobea (3)
  • Cymbalaria (33)
  • Darcya (1)
  • Digitalis (74)
  • Dopatrium (2)
  • Galvezia (4)
  • Gambelia (1)
  • Gratiola (1195)
  • Hemianthus (6)
  • Herpestis (6)
  • Keckiella (241)
  • Kickxia (72)
  • Lagotis (51)
  • Leucospora (107)
  • Limnophila (7)
  • Linaria (492)
  • Littorella (68)
  • Lophospermum (4)
  • Mabrya (5)
  • Maurandya (31)
  • Mecardonia (194)
  • Micranthemum (7)
  • Misopates (5)
  • Mohavea (34)
  • Nothochelone (57)
  • Nuttallanthus (676)
  • Penstemon (7392)
  • Plantago (1421)
  • Russelia (24)
  • Scoparia (3)
  • Stemodia (13)
  • Synthyris (15)
  • Tonella (5)
  • Uroskinnera (3)
  • Veronica (1720)
  • Veronicastrum (56)
  • Wulfenia (2)