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
  • Adlumia (149)
  • Arctomecon (28)
  • Argemone (348)
  • Bicuculla (1)
  • Bocconia (8)
  • Canbya (2)
  • Capnoides (10)
  • Chelidonium (218)
  • Corydalis (1421)
  • Cysticapnos (1)
  • Dendromecon (160)
  • Dicentra (668)
  • Dicranostigma (1)
  • Eschscholzia (529)
  • Fumaria (109)
  • Glaucium (25)
  • Hesperomecon (31)
  • Hunnemannia (1)
  • Lamprocapnos (4)
  • Macleaya (25)
  • Meconella (51)
  • Meconopsis (2)
  • Papaver (513)
  • Platystemon (177)
  • Platystigma (1)
  • Roemeria (3)
  • Romneya (26)
  • Sanguinaria (406)
  • Stylomecon (36)
  • Stylophorum (61)