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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
  • Acaena (5)
  • Agrimonia (108)
  • Alchemilla (5)
  • Amelanchier (75)
  • Aruncus (2)
  • Cerasus (3)
  • Cercocarpus (10)
  • Chamaerhodos (1)
  • Cowania (1)
  • Crataegus (950)
  • Drymocallis (2)
  • Duchesnea (2)
  • Eriogynia (1)
  • Fallugia (1)
  • Filipendula (35)
  • Fragaria (105)
  • Geum (153)
  • Guamatela (2)
  • Hesperomeles (1)
  • Holodiscus (10)
  • Horkelia (22)
  • Ivesia (11)
  • Lachemilla (16)
  • Malus (66)
  • Neviusia (2)
  • Petrophytum (1)
  • Photinia (55)
  • Physocarpus (33)
  • Potentilla (367)
  • Poterium (1)
  • Prunus (321)
  • Purshia (1)
  • Pyrus (5)
  • Rhodotypos (1)
  • Rosa (198)
  • Rubus (239)
  • Sanguisorba (5)
  • Schizonotus (1)
  • Sericotheca (4)
  • Sibbaldia (5)
  • Sorbaria (3)
  • Sorbus (14)
  • Spiraea (86)
  • Vauquelinia (10)
  • Waldsteinia (3)