William Darlington Herbarium - West Chester University, Pennsylvania (DWC)

The William Darlington Herbarium (DWC) is a historically significant collection of roughly 15,000 specimens dating primarily from the 1810s-1850s. Notable donors include Stephen Elliott, Asa Gray, William Jackson Hooker, C. S. Rafinesque, and John Torrey; also present are specimens from both Bartram’s and Humphry Marshall’s Gardens.

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: c57e90f5-989d-4c43-b34a-d7fc07b72a46

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)

• 12,324 occurrence
• 1 (0.01%) georeferenced
• 223 (2%) with images
• 155 (1%) identified to species
• 169 families
• 830 genera
• 88 species
• 89 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)