Huntington Botanical Gardens
San Marino, CA 91108
United States
Sean Lahmeyer, Plant Conservation Specialist
Email: slahmeyer@huntington.org
The Huntington Botanical Garden Herbarium is a depository of mostly exotic plant specimens used in research and teaching. The purpose of these specimens is to both serve as voucher documentation for research projects and to serve as resources for plant identification. The herbarium has approximately 20,000 specimens and encompasses vascular plant specimens from around the world, with particular emphasis on collections from Mexico, Central America and South America. In addition, the herbarium both receives and provides loans of plant specimens used in active systematic research. Important collections include members from the Arecaceae, Cactaceae, Crassulaceae and other succulent families. In 2009, the herbarium acquired Pasadena City College's herbarium (PASA) on permanent loan.
Materials of Special Interest:
Important collections from Myron Kimnach, James Folsom, Don Hodel, de Laubenfels and prior Huntington staff expeditions.