Carnegie Museum of Natural History Herbarium (CM-Botany)
The Carnegie Museum herbarium (CM) has over 540,000 worldwide vascular plant specimens as well as the best representation in any herbarium of specimens from western Pennsylvania and the Upper Ohio Basin. CM holds the private herbarium of Hannibal and Tyrecca Davis containing 20,000 specimens with a concentration on Rubus (Rosaceae).
Contacts: Bonnie L. Isaac, IsaacB@CarnegieMNH.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 August 2023
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/CM-Botany_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Rights Holder: Carnegie Museum of Natural History
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/f3f03cbf-1a01-4739-ae15-c1355b8c2dbf
Collection Statistics
- 543,185 specimen records
- 302,301 (56%) georeferenced
- 219,477 (40%) with images (219,493 total images)
- 517,095 (95%) identified to species
- 470 families
- 7,020 genera
- 47,736 species
- 53,899 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
