Collection Profile for: 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.
Collection Statistics
24,551 specimen records
1 (0%) georeferenced
24,551 (100%) with media (24,576 total media) 259 (1%) identified to species 299 families 1,900 genera 167 species 170 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
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Global Unique Identifier: c57e90f5-989d-4c43-b34a-d7fc07b72a46
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Aegopodium (6 ) Aethusa (14 ) Ammi (6 ) Anethum (3 ) Angelica (20 ) Aphyllanthes (1 ) Apiastrum (1 ) Apium (6 ) Archangelica (4 ) Archemora (12 ) Astrantia (7 ) Athamanta (11 ) Azorella (1 ) Berula (1 ) Bowlesia (1 ) Bubon (1 ) Bunium (10 ) Bupleurum (24 ) Cachrys (1 ) Carum (3 ) Caucalis (9 ) Chaerophyllum (1 ) Cicuta (11 ) Conioselinum (2 ) Conium (3 ) Coriandrum (5 ) Crithmum (2 ) Cryptotaenia (1 ) Cymopterus (2 ) Cynosciadium (1 ) Daucus (16 ) Discopleura (5 ) Echinophora (1 ) Erigenia (3 ) Eryngium (36 ) Ferula (5 ) Foeniculum (4 ) Helosciadium (1 ) Heracleum (10 ) Imperatoria (1 ) Laserpitium (7 ) Levisticum (3 ) Ligusticum (22 ) Lomatium (1 ) Molopospermum (1 ) Myrrhis (1 ) Oenanthe (9 ) Osmorhiza (17 ) Pastinaca (13 ) Peucedanum (2 ) Pimpinella (6 ) Pleurospermum (1 ) Polytaenia (4 ) Ptychotis (1 ) Sanicula (22 ) Scandix (30 ) Selinum (2 ) Silaus (2 ) Siler (3 ) Sison (6 ) Sium (31 ) Smyrnium (1 ) Taenidia (7 ) Tauschia (1 ) Thaspium (16 ) Tordylium (1 ) Torilis (11 ) Trepocarpus (2 ) Turgenia (1 ) Zizia (1 )