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Collection Profile for:
Field Museum of Natural History (F-Botany)

Phanerogams worldwide with emphasis on tropical and North America, especially rich in collections from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru; pteridophytes worldwide with emphasis on Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru; bryophytes worldwide; mosses of North America, Central America, Andean South America, and Australasia; hepatics of north temperate, South America, and south temperate; all groups of fungi, especially basidiomycetes with emphasis on New World and lichenized fungi of north temperate and Central America; algae worldwide, especially Cyanobacteria; economic botany.

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Field Museum of Natural History
Herbarium
Botany Department
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL   60605-2496
U.S.A.
312-665-7861
http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/botany/collections

Collection Statistics

  • 233,154 specimen records
  • 82,628 (35%) georeferenced
  • 204,453 (88%) with media (210,218 total media)
  • 223,644 (96%) identified to species
  • 287 families
  • 4,002 genera
  • 30,283 species
  • 32,353 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 February 2025
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: Field Museum IPT instance
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Alliaria (21)
  • Alyssum (8)
  • Arabidopsis (55)
  • Arabis (21)
  • Armoracia (11)
  • Barbarea (36)
  • Berteroa (11)
  • Boechera (61)
  • Brassica (37)
  • Cakile (58)
  • Camelina (7)
  • Capsella (43)
  • Cardamine (215)
  • Caulanthus (12)
  • Cheiranthus (2)
  • Cochlearia (1)
  • Conringia (2)
  • Coronopus (2)
  • Descurainia (27)
  • Diplotaxis (18)
  • Draba (64)
  • Eruca (4)
  • Erucastrum (13)
  • Erysimum (20)
  • Greggia (2)
  • Guillenia (1)
  • Halimolobos (6)
  • Hesperis (7)
  • Iodanthus (4)
  • Leavenworthia (7)
  • Lepidium (130)
  • Lesquerella (59)
  • Lobularia (3)
  • Microsisymbrium (2)
  • Nasturtium (258)
  • Neobeckia (2)
  • Nerisyrenia (2)
  • Neslia (3)
  • Ornithocarpa (2)
  • Pennellia (8)
  • Physaria (4)
  • Raphanus (27)
  • Romanschulzia (11)
  • Rorippa (791)
  • Schoenocrambe (2)
  • Selenia (3)
  • Sinapis (39)
  • Sisymbrium (65)
  • Sophia (2)
  • Stanleya (1)
  • Streptanthus (5)
  • Synthlipsis (2)
  • Thelypodium (11)
  • Thlaspi (18)
  • Thysanocarpus (2)
  • Turritis (7)
  • Vesicaria (1)
  • Warea (6)