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
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
  • Abama (2)
  • Calochortus (914)
  • Clintonia (82)
  • Cyclobothra (1)
  • Erythronium (1211)
  • Fritillaria (692)
  • Gagea (86)
  • Hesperanthes (1)
  • Hesperoscordum (2)
  • Hookera (3)
  • Lilium (1078)
  • Lloydia (3)
  • Medeola (8)
  • Nemexia (2)
  • Othocallis (2)
  • Prosartes (7)
  • Quamasia (1)
  • Roulinia (2)
  • Scoliopus (6)
  • Streptopus (168)
  • Tracyanthus (1)
  • Tricyrtis (18)
  • Tulipa (33)
  • Unifolium (2)