Membership


The Consortium of Northeastern Herbaria is an organization comprised of herbaria in northeastern North America, a region encompassing the Canadian provinces New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, and Quebec, and Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the United States.

Membership is open to herbaria within our geographic scope whose collections include regional holdings. We hope to represent the interests of all of the official plant collections in the area – from large ones with millions of specimens to the very smallest with only a single herbarium cabinet.

We expect that member collections are permanently housed in the region, maintained to accepted curatorial standards, managed by trained personnel, and accessible for consultation.

Our organismal scope includes taxa traditionally found in herbaria, including plants, fungi, diatoms, algae, and lichens.

Specimen occurrence data from member institutions can be shared through our data sharing portal. If your institution is interested in sharing data and are willing to abide by the terms of our data sharing and data usage policies, email Patrick Sweeney for further instructions about how to make this happen.

To join CNH click here.

Use of any specimen data and related material (e.g., images, species checklists, etc.) accessed through this portal requires agreement to the terms and conditions in the CNH data usage policy.