Field Museum of Natural History (F-Botany)

Additional electronic access to F database is available at: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/Query.php. Specialty: 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.
Collections Manager: Kimberly Hansen, khansen@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 September 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information
Collection Statistics
  • 484,459 specimen records
  • 37,039 (8%) georeferenced
  • 407,977 (84%) with images (474,064 total images)
  • 429,161 (89%) identified to species
  • 328 families
  • 5,532 genera
  • 74,579 species
  • 78,397 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Arabis (4)
  • Aschersoniodoxa (2)
  • Barbarea (1)
  • Berteroa (1)
  • Biscutella (1)
  • Brassica (96)
  • Brayopsis (14)
  • Cakile (8)
  • Capsella (46)
  • Cardamine (157)
  • Catadysia (1)
  • Chilocardamum (2)
  • Cochlearia (1)
  • Coronopus (5)
  • Cremolobus (67)
  • Delpinophytum (1)
  • Descurainia (120)
  • Dictyophragmus (6)
  • Diplotaxis (8)
  • Draba (200)
  • Englerocharis (1)
  • Eremodraba (3)
  • Eruca (3)
  • Erysimum (6)
  • Eudema (7)
  • Exhalimolobos (25)
  • Halimolobos (14)
  • Hexaptera (5)
  • Hirschfeldia (2)
  • Hornungia (1)
  • Hutchinsia (3)
  • Iberis (4)
  • Isatis (2)
  • Lepidium (264)
  • Lesquerella (8)
  • Lobularia (9)
  • Mancoa (12)
  • Mathewsia (26)
  • Matthiola (5)
  • Menonvillea (50)
  • Moricandia (1)
  • Mostacillastrum (20)
  • Nasturtium (90)
  • Nerisyrenia (2)
  • Neuontobotrys (14)
  • Onuris (3)
  • Ornithocarpa (2)
  • Pelagatia (3)
  • Pennellia (7)
  • Perreymondia (2)
  • Phlebiophragmus (1)
  • Physaria (3)
  • Polypsecadium (4)
  • Raphanus (33)
  • Rapistrum (7)
  • Romanschulzia (5)
  • Rorippa (84)
  • Sarcodraba (3)
  • Schizopetalon (13)
  • Selenia (1)
  • Senebiera (2)
  • Sinapis (1)
  • Sisymbrium (105)
  • Stenodraba (1)
  • Streptanthus (1)
  • Synthlipsis (2)
  • Thelypodium (4)
  • Thlaspi (6)
  • Urbanodoxa (1)
  • Vesicaria (1)
  • Weberbauera (35)
  • Werdermannia (21)
  • Xerodraba (5)
  • Yinshania (1)