The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium is the centerpiece of the Garden's botanical research program. It is the fourth largest herbarium in the world, and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The Herbarium holds a collection of more than seven million preserved specimens filed according to a standardized system of classification. All plant groups--flowering plants, conifers, ferns, mosses, liverworts, and algae, as well as fungi and lichens --are represented in the Herbarium collection, which is particularly strong in New World specimens. This reflects the emphasis of the research projects conducted by the Garden researchers. With more than 7.8 million preserved specimens, the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium is the largest herbarium in the Western Hemisphere. The New York Botanical Garden recently added the three-millionth plant specimen to the Virtual Herbarium, part of an ambitious project to digitize the 7.8 million dried plant specimens in its William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, the largest herbarium in the Western hemisphere. Of all specimens digitized, most are vascular plants, but brophytes, algae, fungi and lichens are the focus of many of our digitization projects.

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

Home Page: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium_details.php?irn=125525

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: New York Botanical Garden

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The Herbarium Collection of the St. George Village Botanical Garden is a collection of over 5,000 plant specimens which represent about 80% of the plant species known to be growing in the U.S. Virgin Islands. These specimens are physical examples of plants that were collected at a documented location and time. There are examples of specimens that have been collected during the last 50 years which are no longer found growing in particular sites, but the herbarium specimen remains as proof it existed in a particular time and place. This very important research and historical collection is open to researchers by appointment only.

Contact: Michael B. Thomas, PhD (michaelbthomas@gmail.com)

Home Page: http://www.sgvbg.org/garden-herbarium

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: St. George Village Botanical Garden

Access Rights: Public Domain

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Collection Type: Observations

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

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The St. George Village Botanical Garden is a 16.5 acre garden which is planted among the restored buildings and ruins of an 18th and 19th century sugar cane plantation which also overlaps an Amerindian settlement which dates back to c.100 A.D.

The Garden's botanical collections feature over 1,000 varieties of plants that demonstrate the horticultural potential for the U.S. Virgin Islands, while also emphasizing the cultural and historical value of plants as a source of food, medicine, fiber, color dyes, and building material in the Caribbean.

Visitors enjoy a spectacular mix of history and natural beauty with a variety of themed garden areas set among the historic structures of the colonial era sugarcane plantation. The property is listed twice in the National Registry of Historic Sites for both the Amerindian archaeological site and the Danish colonial sugarcane plantation village.

A visit to the St. George Village Botanical Garden provides an opportunity to learn about the natural beauty of the Virgin Islands

Contact: Dewey Hollister (deweyhollister@gmail.com)

Home Page: http://www.sgvbg.org

Collection Type: Observations

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: St. Georges Village Botanical Garden

Access Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 International (Attribution Non-Commercial)

This is a 100% inventory of the garden landscape. In progress 2019. St. George Village Botanical Garden is dedicated to conservation and preservation of both the historical and living collections on its grounds. The Gardens mission is to conserve the native plant species of St. Croix, as well as threatened species of other Caribbean islands suited to local environmental conditions. In addition, the Garden preserves the ethnobotanical history of St. Croix through living, graphic and structural displays. The mission of St. George Village Botanical Garden is one of conservation, preservation, and education. It conserves the native plant species of St. Croix as well as the threatened species of other Caribbean islands suited to local environmental conditions.

Contact: Dewey Hollister (deweyhollister@gmail.com)

Home Page: www.sgvbg.org

Collection Type: Observations

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: c5d17c6e-c0ac-4e9d-984b-567a87616017

Digital Metadata: EML File

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Rights Holder: The Botanical Garden of the Virgin Islands

Worldwide with emphasis on neotropics, North America, Pacific Islands, Philippines, and Indian subcontinent.

Contact: Curator (USNH@si.edu)

Home Page: http://botany.si.edu/colls/collections_overview.htm

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: Smithsonian Institution

Access Rights: Public Domain

In 2004 the Botanical Museum, the Library, the Botanical Garden, the Zoological Museum, and the Geological Museum were merged and became the Natural History Museum of Denmark. The Natural History Museum is a department of the University of Copenhagen. Museum Botanicum Hauniense = C. Herbarium C is housed in temporary premises within an hour's travel outside Copenhagen until 2020 while we build a new Natural History Museum in the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen.

Contact: Olof Ryding, Collection Manager (curator@snm.ku.dk)

Home Page: https://samlinger.snm.ku.dk/en/dry-and-wet-collections/botany/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: University of Copenhagen

Access Rights: Public Domain

The University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH) is one of several museum units within the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. It includes over 1.7 million specimens of vascular plants, fungi, lichens, bryophytes, and algae. Of these, about 1.1 million correspond to vascular plants (ferns and fern allies, gymnosperms, and flowering plants). The collections are worldwide in scope, but focus primarily on Michigan and the Great Lakes, with additional strengths in Mexico, Belize, Iran, the Himalayan region, Hawaii, Borneo, and the Philippines.

This digital collection contains specimen data and digital images of the nearly 10,000 "type specimens" of vascular plants at MICH. These specimens are particularly valuable, since they are ones that are specifically designated to represent the scientific name of an organism whenever an author describes and publishes a new species or other rank.

Contact: Richard Rabeler (rabeler@umich.edu)

Home Page: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium_details.php?irn=125279

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: University of Michigan

Access Rights: Public Domain

Since June 1996 the Albion Hodgdon Herbarium and the associated Sumner Pike Library have been housed in the Spaulding Life Sciences building of the Biological Sciences Complex. The herbarium comprises approximately 200,000 specimens (120,000 vascular plants, 80,000 marine algae, and 550 bryophytes and lichens). A space-saving compactor system for specimen storage allows for a significant increase in the size of the collection in the coming years. The herbarium contains a combination of historic and recently collected specimens, including 97 nomenclatural type specimens and voucher specimens supporting taxonomic, ecological, and biogeographic research. While our specimens represent plant species worldwide, the collections emphasize northeastern North America and are especially strong in representing freshwater and marine habitats. An additional strength is our extensive collection of Neotropical aquatic species. Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants and marine algae; aquatic flora. Geography: New Hampshire; Maine; coastal New England; Newfoundland; Bay of Fundy; Crimea, Siberia; northeastern U.S., Costa Rica, and Bolivia. Founded 1892.

Contact: Arthur Mathieson, Curator of Marine Algae (arthur@cisunix.unh.edu)

Home Page: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium_details.php?irn=126756

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: University of New Hampshire

Access Rights: Public Domain

Approximately 54,000 specimens. Taxonomic Coverage: Fungi, Lichens, Freshwater and Marine Algae, Bryophyta, Tracheophytes. Geography: West Indies, especially Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Saint Lucia. Date Founded: 1966.

Contact: James Ackerman, Ph.D., Herbarium Director (ackerman.upr@gmail.com)

Home Page: http://herbario.uprrp.edu/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: University of Puerto Rico

Access Rights: Public Domain

The Herbarium at the St. Thomas CES office houses collections of preserved plant specimens from the USVI, collected primarily by scientists from the Smithsonian Institute and the New York Botanical Garden. The National Park Service Biosphere on St. John houses similar collections. Additional collections by local botanists are stored in the St. Croix CES office. Plant specimens are dried, mounted and labeled on 100% non-acid rag paper that does not deteriorate like wood pulp paper. These Herbaria contain collections of extremely rare and endangered plants that could be devastated by land clearing during construction activities or by hurricanes or droughts. Herbarium information about the status of these rare plants, including where they were collected can help scientists monitor this rapidly changing Caribbean region and can also help home owners and land-use planners avoid the destruction of important rare plants and their habitats.

UVI-CES, with the help of students and volunteers, is in the process of computerizing information relating to over 2,500 plant specimens in the St. Thomas Herbarium to enable data to be readily accessible to Internet users. Founded in 1978. R. O. Woodbury, J. M. Matuszak, G. T. Prance, F. R. Fosberg, J. Earhart, P. Acevedo, K. Teare, F. Grifo, and S. A. Mori. Taxonomic Coverage: Economic plants; traditional medicinal plants; native ornamentals; endangered species; mosses; algae; Poaceae.

Contact: Toni Thomas, Program Leader (tthomas2@uvi.edu)

Home Page: https://sites.google.com/a/myuvi.net/ccam/home/about-uvi-ccam/uvi-ccam-plant-conservation-documentation-team-1

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: University of the Virgin Islands.

Access Rights: Public Domain

This collection is based on an inventory of Vascular Plant Inventory of Buck Island from June 11-23, 2001, December 17-21, 2001, and May 17-23, 2002, with effort evenly divided between plant collecting and ecological sampling. The most favorable collecting conditions were met on the December 2001 trip, yet most of the work occurred during times of dormancy for many herbaceous plants. A comprehensive listing would require either more frequent wet-season collecting or a year-round sampling effort. Of the current total of 164 species, 160 were sampled, pressed and identified in our voucher collection.

Reference: Ray, Gary. 2003. Vascular Plant Inventory and Mapping of Buck Island. Buck Island Reef National Monument. St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Contact: Zandy Hillis-Starr, Supervisory Resource Management Specialist (zandy_hillis-starr@nps.gov)

Home Page: https://www.nps.gov/buis/index.htm

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: US National Park Service

Access Rights: Public Domain