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
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
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
  • Acaena (8)
  • Acomastylis (1)
  • Adenostoma (22)
  • Agrimonia (499)
  • Alchemilla (31)
  • Amelanchier (1820)
  • Aphanes (7)
  • Argentina (5)
  • Aronia (352)
  • Aruncus (44)
  • Batidaea (3)
  • Cerasus (4)
  • Cercocarpus (646)
  • Chaenomeles (3)
  • Chamaebatia (25)
  • Chamaebatiaria (167)
  • Chamaerhodos (46)
  • Coleogyne (72)
  • Comarella (1)
  • Comarum (1)
  • Cotoneaster (102)
  • Cowania (6)
  • Crataegus (2859)
  • Cydonia (41)
  • Dalibarda (53)
  • Dasiphora (2)
  • Dryas (66)
  • Drymocallis (51)
  • Duchesnea (54)
  • Emplectocladus (1)
  • Eriobotrya (4)
  • Eriogynia (3)
  • Erythrocoma (6)
  • Exochorda (21)
  • Fallugia (215)
  • Filipendula (31)
  • Fragaria (831)
  • Geum (1609)
  • Heteromeles (2)
  • Holodiscus (525)
  • Horkelia (237)
  • Horkeliella (16)
  • Ivesia (691)
  • Kelseya (18)
  • Kerria (10)
  • Lachemilla (4)
  • Lindleyella (1)
  • Luetkea (25)
  • Lyonothamnus (1)
  • Malus (345)
  • Melanobatus (1)
  • Mespilus (1)
  • Neillia (16)
  • Neviusia (18)
  • Nuttallia (7)
  • Oemleria (12)
  • Opulaster (11)
  • Osmaronia (7)
  • Osteomeles (6)
  • Padus (1)
  • Pentaphylloides (2)
  • Peraphyllum (136)
  • Petrophytum (189)
  • Photinia (61)
  • Physocarpus (504)
  • Porteranthus (88)
  • Potentilla (5889)
  • Poteridium (2)
  • Prunus (2847)
  • Purpusia (13)
  • Purshia (694)
  • Pyracantha (19)
  • Pyrus (96)
  • Rhaphiolepis (14)
  • Rhodotypos (22)
  • Rosa (2395)
  • Rubus (4295)
  • Sanguisorba (287)
  • Sericotheca (9)
  • Sibbaldia (225)
  • Sibbaldiopsis (2)
  • Sorbaria (26)
  • Sorbus (305)
  • Spiraea (863)
  • Stephanandra (2)
  • Stranvaesia (1)
  • Vauquelinia (40)
  • Waldsteinia (73)