Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (PH)

The herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH) is the oldest institutional herbarium in the United States. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850. The diatom herbarium (ANSP) is managed separately.

Curator: Tatyana Livshultz, tl534@drexel.edu
Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, ans_ph_herbarium@drexel.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 019a3280-a69f-4312-bb30-8556e270f1a5
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 584,581 specimen records
  • 277,289 (47%) georeferenced
  • 573,040 (98%) with images (577,239 total images)
  • 538,508 (92%) identified to species
  • 413 families
  • 5,076 genera
  • 27,714 species
  • 30,101 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Adenophora (26)
  • Bolelia (2)
  • Burmeistera (10)
  • Campanula (813)
  • Campylocera (1)
  • Centropogon (26)
  • Clermontia (3)
  • Codonopsis (1)
  • Cyananthus (3)
  • Cyanea (1)
  • Diastatea (1)
  • Downingia (5)
  • Dysmicodon (3)
  • Githopsis (7)
  • Heterocodon (4)
  • Heterotoma (3)
  • Hippobroma (1)
  • Howellia (4)
  • Isotoma (2)
  • Jasione (5)
  • Laurentia (5)
  • Lobelia (2356)
  • Merciera (2)
  • Palmerella (3)
  • Peracarpa (1)
  • Phyteuma (12)
  • Roella (6)
  • Siphocampylus (27)
  • Specularia (259)
  • Triodanis (22)
  • Tupa (1)
  • Wahlenbergia (6)