Salem College (SC)

The Salem College Herbarium is the oldest herbarium in the United States. It was founded in 1772, but the oldest specimen, a Symphoricarpos collected from the Deep River [North Carolina] by C. Frederick Denke (1775-1838), is dated June, 1817. The historical collections (1817-1895) number about 1000 specimens and are mostly from the Piedmont of North Carolina. There are ca. 5000 specimens in the modern collection (1900-present), and these were collected from North Carolina by Salem College students & faculty. Please contact Dr. Dane Kuppinger, Curator, for access to the Salem College Herbarium.

Contacts: Dane Kuppinger, dane.kuppinger@salem.edu

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: ccdaf43a-6c0d-45b3-8cba-41c62b6c6873

DwC-Archive Access Point: https://sernecportal.org/portal/content/dwca/SC_DwC-A.zip

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

iDigBio Dataset page: https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/4c9d08ce-71c1-47b8-a572-2d40e5984c49

Collection Statistics

3,876 specimen records
370 (10%) georeferenced
3,725 (96%) with images (3,776 total images)
3,806 (98%) identified to species
141 families
433 genera
840 species
867 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Geographic Distribution - North Carolina

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Alexander (5)
Alleghany (1)
Anson (1)
Avery (2)
Beaufort (5)
Bladen (1)
Brunswick (45)
Buncombe (5)
Burke (27)
Caldwell (3)
Carteret (38)
Catawba (2)
Chatham (14)
Cook (2)
Craven (5)
Dare (10)
Davidson (47)
Davie (50)
Duplin (10)
Durham (27)
Forsyth (1779)
Guilford (4)
Haywood (72)
Hyde (2)
Iredell (14)
Jones (4)
Lee (11)
Madison (20)
McDowell (4)
Mitchell (3)
Nash (5)
Onslow (15)
Pamlico (2)
Pender (13)
Pitt (3)
Richmond (18)
Rutherford (16)
Scotland (13)
Stanly (9)
Stokes (72)
Surry (44)
Transylvania (102)
Union (1)
Wake (1)
Watauga (5)
Wilkes (2)
Yadkin (49)
Yancey (58)


CIRH Homepage Search Collections Image Library Links Crowdsourcing Flora Projects Regional Floras Colorado Floras Utah Floras Colorado Plateau Teaching Checklists Dynamic Tools Dynamic Checklist Dynamic Key Log In New Account Sitemap	Home >> Collection Search Page >> Collection Profile Salem College (SC) The Salem College Herbarium is the oldest herbarium in the United States. It was founded in 1772, but the oldest specimen, a Symphoricarpos collected from the Deep River [North Carolina] by C. Frederick Denke (1775-1838), is dated June, 1817. The historical collections (1817-1895) number about 1000 specimens and are mostly from the Piedmont of North Carolina. There are ca. 5000 specimens in the modern collection (1900-present), and these were collected from North Carolina by Salem College students & faculty. Please contact Dr. Dane Kuppinger, Curator, for access to the Salem College Herbarium. Contacts: Dane Kuppinger, dane.kuppinger@salem.edu Collection Type: Preserved Specimens Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal Global Unique Identifier: ccdaf43a-6c0d-45b3-8cba-41c62b6c6873 DwC-Archive Access Point: https://sernecportal.org/portal/content/dwca/SC_DwC-A.zip Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ iDigBio Dataset page: https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/4c9d08ce-71c1-47b8-a572-2d40e5984c49 Collection Statistics 3,876 specimen records 370 (10%) georeferenced 3,725 (96%) with images (3,776 total images) 3,806 (98%) identified to species 141 families 433 genera 840 species 867 total taxa (including subsp. and var.) Extra Statistics Show Geographic Distribution Show Family Distribution Geographic Distribution - North Carolina Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term Alexander (5) Alleghany (1) Anson (1) Avery (2) Beaufort (5) Bladen (1) Brunswick (45) Buncombe (5) Burke (27) Caldwell (3) Carteret (38) Catawba (2) Chatham (14) Cook (2) Craven (5) Dare (10) Davidson (47) Davie (50) Duplin (10) Durham (27) Forsyth (1779) Guilford (4) Haywood (72) Hyde (2) Iredell (14) Jones (4) Lee (11) Madison (20) McDowell (4) Mitchell (3) Nash (5) Onslow (15) Pamlico (2) Pender (13) Pitt (3) Richmond (18) Rutherford (16) Scotland (13) Stanly (9) Stokes (72) Surry (44) Transylvania (102) Union (1) Wake (1) Watauga (5) Wilkes (2) Yadkin (49) Yancey (58)