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
  • Astilbe (39)
  • Bensoniella (2)
  • Bergenia (5)
  • Bolandra (27)
  • Boykinia (210)
  • Cascadia (9)
  • Chrysosplenium (533)
  • Conimitella (6)
  • Darmera (26)
  • Edwinia (1)
  • Elmera (24)
  • Grossularia (1)
  • Heuchera (1322)
  • Holochloa (1)
  • Itea (1)
  • Jamesia (114)
  • Jepsonia (13)
  • Leptarrhena (82)
  • Leptasea (2)
  • Lithophragma (389)
  • Micranthes (1637)
  • Mitella (1076)
  • Ribes (7061)
  • Saxifraga (3852)
  • Suksdorfia (45)
  • Sullivantia (70)
  • Tellima (92)
  • Therofon (1)
  • Tiarella (659)
  • Tolmiea (8)