New York Botanical Garden (NY)

With more than 7.8 million preserved specimens, the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium is the largest herbarium in the Western Hemisphere.

Contact: Thiers, Barbara (bthiers@nybg.org)

Home Page: http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/SteereHerbarium.asp

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

• 960,363 specimen records
• 221,091 (23%) georeferenced
• 853,271 (89%) with images
• 883,404 (92%) identified to species
• 415 families
• 5,609 genera
• 41,402 species
• 50,385 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)