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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
  • Acanthomintha (15)
  • Agastache (50)
  • Ajuga (7)
  • Asterohyptis (10)
  • Audibertia (2)
  • Blephilia (23)
  • Brachystemum (1)
  • Brittonastrum (6)
  • Calamintha (3)
  • Cantinoa (6)
  • Catoferia (4)
  • Cedronella (4)
  • Clinopodium (80)
  • Condea (9)
  • Conradina (23)
  • Cunila (8)
  • Dicerandra (8)
  • Dracocephalum (2)
  • Eplingia (1)
  • Galeopsis (2)
  • Gardoquia (2)
  • Glechoma (47)
  • Haplostachys (1)
  • Hedeoma (56)
  • Hemistegia (2)
  • Hesperozygis (2)
  • Hyptis (65)
  • Isanthus (12)
  • Lamium (22)
  • Leonotis (2)
  • Leonurus (49)
  • Lepechinia (4)
  • Lophanthus (1)
  • Lycopus (612)
  • Macbridea (4)
  • Marrubium (104)
  • Marsypianthes (3)
  • Meehania (23)
  • Melissa (31)
  • Mentha (759)
  • Mesosphaerum (10)
  • Micromeria (11)
  • Monarda (143)
  • Monardella (7)
  • Nepeta (47)
  • Ocimum (32)
  • Origanum (4)
  • Perilla (2)
  • Phyllostegia (60)
  • Physostegia (88)
  • Pogogyne (9)
  • Poliomintha (1)
  • Prunella (84)
  • Pycnanthemum (107)
  • Rosmarinus (2)
  • Salvia (463)
  • Satureja (11)
  • Scutellaria (253)
  • Sphacele (1)
  • Stachys (206)
  • Stenogyne (21)
  • Tetraclea (4)
  • Teucrium (94)
  • Thymus (2)
  • Trichostema (3)