Staten Island Museum (SIM)

The Staten Island Museum herbarium (SIM) contains over 25,000 specimens, focused on the flora of Staten Island and the northeastern United States. It is a complete record of the flora of Staten Island, from the 1860s to the present. The core of the herbarium was donated by co-founders Arthur Hollick and Nathaniel Lord Britton, and is composed of specimens they collected during the 1870s-1880s. Specialized sub-collections include hybrid oaks (Hollick/Britton/Davis) and hybrid violets and ferns (Philip Dowell). Aside from vascular plants, the collection also contains mosses, lichens, algae, fungi and slime molds.

Contacts: Colleen Evans, cevans@statenislandmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ce5d3f76-3855-4cda-aaf9-fce6d12f7bfb
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 26,107 specimen records
  • 19,335 (74%) georeferenced
  • 26,107 (100%) with images (26,209 total images)
  • 22,777 (87%) identified to species
  • 211 families
  • 1,150 genera
  • 3,939 species
  • 4,197 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acacia (1)
  • Aeschynomene (2)
  • Albizia (1)
  • Amorpha (15)
  • Amphicarpaea (15)
  • Anthyllis (1)
  • Apios (13)
  • Astragalus (16)
  • Baptisia (15)
  • Cassia (35)
  • Cercidium (1)
  • Cercis (5)
  • Clitoria (2)
  • Colutea (2)
  • Coronilla (6)
  • Crotalaria (9)
  • Cytisus (10)
  • Desmodium (90)
  • Erythrina (1)
  • Galactia (6)
  • Genista (2)
  • Geoprumnon (2)
  • Gleditsia (8)
  • Gymnocladus (5)
  • Hedysarum (5)
  • Homalobus (2)
  • Hosackia (7)
  • Kuhnistera (2)
  • Lathyrus (24)
  • Lespedeza (69)
  • Lotus (1)
  • Lupinus (21)
  • Medicago (16)
  • Melilotus (22)
  • Mimosa (1)
  • Morongia (1)
  • Onobrychis (2)
  • Orophaca (1)
  • Oxytropis (3)
  • Parosela (3)
  • Petalostemon (1)
  • Phaseolus (16)
  • Prosopis (1)
  • Psoralea (5)
  • Robinia (37)
  • Sesbania (1)
  • Strophostyles (29)
  • Stylosanthes (11)
  • Tephrosia (11)
  • Tetragonolobus (1)
  • Thermopsis (2)
  • Trifolium (93)
  • Ulex (4)
  • Vicia (44)
  • Wisteria (3)