× Take our 30-second survey
The U.S. National Science Foundation and iDigBio are required to collect information on use of digitized collections-based specimen data. Please help us meet this requirement every time you use this search portal. Sustainability of the national digitization effort depends on evidence of data use! Maybe later.

Recordset

Search Recordset

Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Specimen Records: 1,925,820
Media Records: 1,683,834
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

This dataset contains all digitized specimen records stewarded by the Harvard University Herbaria. 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). DarwinCore data follows the AppleCore guidance https://code.google.com/p/applecore/.

Contacts

Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Michaela Schmull
RoleDirector of Collections
Emailmschmull@oeb.harvard.edu
Name Charles Davis
RoleCurator of Vascular Plant Collection; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Emailcdavis@oeb.harvard.edu
Name Jeannine Cavender-Bares
RoleDirector of the Harvard University Herbaria; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Emailnone
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i1872589
97.236
dwc_datasetid_added  i1631238
84.704
dwc_kingdom_added  i1631238
84.704
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1631238
84.704
dwc_taxonid_added  i1631238
84.704
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1631238
84.704
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1631238
84.704
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1631238
84.704
gbif_genericname_added  i1631238
84.704
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1631238
84.704
dwc_phylum_added  i1631071
84.695
dwc_class_added  i1630689
84.675
dwc_order_added  i1629164
84.596
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i1495683
77.665
gbif_reference_added  i1334425
69.291
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1259344
65.393
dwc_country_replaced  i1136268
59.002
dwc_multimedia_added  i1066100
55.358
taxon_match_failed  i544027
28.249
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i387882
20.141
dwc_family_replaced  i181161
9.407
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i172143
8.939
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i134816
7
dwc_genus_replaced  i64388
3.343
geopoint_datum_error  i40309
2.093
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i36855
1.914
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i35220
1.829
dwc_family_added  i25722
1.336
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i17292
0.898
dwc_continent_replaced  i6478
0.336
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i5122
0.266
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2781
0.144
dwc_country_added  i2385
0.124
rev_geocode_eez  i1243
0.065
dwc_genus_added  i1099
0.057
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i1016
0.053
rev_geocode_mismatch  i894
0.046
rev_geocode_corrected  i399
0.021
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i309
0.016
rev_geocode_failure  i103
0.005
dwc_specificepithet_added  i58
0.003
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i58
0.003
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i52
0.003
rev_geocode_flip  i15
0.001
datecollected_bounds  i14
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
0.001
rev_geocode_both_sign  i5
0
geopoint_similar_coord  i4
0
geopoint_0_coord  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
specimen list