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.
Contacts: Ron McColl, rmccoll@wcupa.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c57e90f5-989d-4c43-b34a-d7fc07b72a46
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/DWC_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Collection Statistics
- 24,551 specimen records
- 1 (0%) georeferenced
- 12,324 (50%) with images (12,324 total images)
- 164 (0.67%) identified to species
- 286 families
- 1,794 genera
- 98 species
- 93 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
