Connecticut Botanical Society (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History-NCBS)

The Connecticut Botanical Society Herbarium houses over 36,000 sheets of plants, and records the changing distribution of the Connecticut flora. The CBS Herbarium is housed in the same facility as the Yale University Herbarium.

The Connecticut Botanical Society is a group of amateur and professional botanists who share an interest in the plants and habitats of Connecticut and the surrounding region. The society was founded in 1903. Our goals are to increase knowledge of the state's flora, to accumulate a permanent botanical record, and to promote conservation and public awareness of the state's rich natural heritage.

Contacts: Patrick Sweeney, patrick.sweeney@yale.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 17 June 2015
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Access Rights: Open Access, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; see Yale Peabody policies at: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/8931zqj
Collection Statistics
  • 44,429 specimen records
  • 33,320 (75%) georeferenced
  • 41,775 (94%) with images (41,775 total images)
  • 33,764 (76%) identified to species
  • 172 families
  • 792 genera
  • 2,637 species
  • 3,005 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Menyanthes (17)
  • Nymphoides (18)
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