Howard University Herbarium (HUDC)

The Howard University Herbarium (HUDC) is a collection of ca. 12,000 plant specimens housed in Just Hall on Howard University’s main campus. The collection includes a donation from the former Catholic University herbarium, with >1000 specimens from the Caribbean collected between 1890-1920. Other collection strengths include plants of the Mid-Atlantic, especially the DC metropolitan area. Charles Parker, Marie Clark Taylor and H. David Hammond also made substantial contributions the Howard University Herbarium.

Contact: Janelle Burke, Ph.D. (janelle.burke@howard.edu)

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 5b6e6b41-e610-4740-888e-27f347ba293b

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

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

• 8,789 occurrence
• 4,227 (48%) georeferenced
• 8,794 (100%) with images
• 7,528 (86%) identified to species
• 194 families
• 980 genera
• 2,526 species
• 2,646 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)