Brooklyn Botanic Garden
1000 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11225-1099
United States
Kerry Barringer, Curator of the Herbarium
Email: kbarringer@bbg.org
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Herbarium houses 300,000 plant specimens, including 1400 types. Vascular plant specimens make up the largest part of the collection, though the herbarium also has collections of mosses, liverworts, algae and lichens. The most important collections are from the eastern United States, including a large number of recent collections that document the current flora of the region. The collection also contains the collections of A. A. Heller and his colleagues, a collection of cultivated plants made by Camillo Schneider, and many complete sets of exsiccatae including Rocky Mountain plants by E. Hall and J. P. Harbour, grasses and sedges by A. Gray, mosses and liverworts by C. F. Austin, and algae by Collins, Holden, and Setchell.
Materials of Special Interest:
- A complete set of the H. H. Rusby and O. E. White specimens from the Mulford Expedition to Bolivia.
- A complete set of specimens from the Galapagos, Ecuador, and Peru collected by H. Svenson.
- Duplicates of many of C. G. Pringle's Mexican collections.
- Duplicates of Southeast Asian species described by E. Merrill.
- Duplicates of vascular plants collected on the Whitney South Seas Expedition.