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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
  • Aletris (51)
  • Allium (170)
  • Anatis (1)
  • Anthericum (8)
  • Anticlea (2)
  • Asparagus (33)
  • Asphodelus (27)
  • Beaucarnea (16)
  • Brodiaea (5)
  • Calochortus (18)
  • Camassia (61)
  • Chamaelirium (2)
  • Chlorogalum (2)
  • Clintonia (7)
  • Convallaria (11)
  • Cordyline (1)
  • Dasylirion (31)
  • Dracaena (5)
  • Echeandia (11)
  • Erythronium (82)
  • Fritillaria (8)
  • Hagenbachia (1)
  • Hastingsia (1)
  • Helonias (18)
  • Hemerocallis (36)
  • Hesperanthes (1)
  • Hookera (1)
  • Kniphofia (8)
  • Lilium (100)
  • Maianthemum (63)
  • Medeola (29)
  • Melanthium (1)
  • Milla (4)
  • Muilla (1)
  • Muscari (3)
  • Nolina (14)
  • Nothoscordum (1)
  • Ornithogalum (7)
  • Polygonatum (68)
  • Schoenocaulon (15)
  • Schoenolirion (3)
  • Scilla (1)
  • Smilacina (180)
  • Stenanthium (5)
  • Streptopus (1)
  • Tofieldia (40)
  • Toxicoscordion (1)
  • Trillium (255)
  • Triteleia (1)
  • Tulipa (1)
  • Uvularia (49)
  • Veratrum (9)
  • Zigadenus (11)