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
  • Acanthomintha (24)
  • Acinos (21)
  • Agastache (510)
  • Ajuga (67)
  • Audibertia (12)
  • Audibertiella (1)
  • Ballota (15)
  • Blephilia (224)
  • Brachystemum (1)
  • Brazoria (34)
  • Brittonastrum (7)
  • Calamintha (62)
  • Cantinoa (27)
  • Catopheria (1)
  • Cedronella (11)
  • Chaunostoma (2)
  • Clinopodium (763)
  • Coleus (6)
  • Collinsonia (290)
  • Colquhounia (1)
  • Comanthosphace (1)
  • Condea (43)
  • Conradina (94)
  • Cunila (34)
  • Dicerandra (60)
  • Dracocephalum (217)
  • Elsholtzia (21)
  • Equilabium (1)
  • Galeopsis (399)
  • Glechoma (430)
  • Hedeoma (883)
  • Hesperozygis (2)
  • Horminum (1)
  • Hyptis (177)
  • Hyssopus (46)
  • Isanthus (1)
  • Iva (1)
  • Keiskea (1)
  • Koellia (1)
  • Lallemantia (1)
  • Lamium (414)
  • Lavandula (8)
  • Leonotis (38)
  • Leonurus (301)
  • Lepechinia (56)
  • Leucosceptrum (1)
  • Lophanthus (6)
  • Lycopus (2074)
  • Macbridea (21)
  • Marrubium (161)
  • Meehania (21)
  • Melissa (71)
  • Mentha (2404)
  • Mesosphaerum (10)
  • Micromeria (6)
  • Moluccella (1)
  • Molucella (7)
  • Monarda (1292)
  • Monardella (476)
  • Mosla (4)
  • Neoeplingia (1)
  • Nepeta (303)
  • Ocimum (67)
  • Origanum (75)
  • Orthosiphon (1)
  • Perilla (94)
  • Perovskia (1)
  • Phlomis (1)
  • Phlomoides (7)
  • Physostegia (787)
  • Piloblephis (67)
  • Plectranthus (2)
  • Pogogyne (102)
  • Pogostemon (1)
  • Poliomintha (53)
  • Prunella (928)
  • Pycnanthemum (1855)
  • Rhododon (12)
  • Salazaria (86)
  • Salvia (2078)
  • Satureja (45)
  • Scutellaria (2961)
  • Sideritis (3)
  • Sphacele (5)
  • Stachydeoma (7)
  • Stachys (1662)
  • Synandra (15)
  • Tetraclea (49)
  • Teucrium (943)
  • Thymus (199)
  • Tinnea (3)
  • Trichostema (864)
  • Warnockia (36)