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
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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
  • Allium (5)
  • Aloe (3)
  • Anthericum (53)
  • Anticlea (2)
  • Asparagus (1)
  • Asphodelus (2)
  • Beaucarnea (15)
  • Brodiaea (7)
  • Calochortus (9)
  • Chlorophytum (2)
  • Cordyline (1)
  • Dasylirion (25)
  • Dianella (1)
  • Diora (1)
  • Eccremis (15)
  • Echeandia (9)
  • Fortunatia (39)
  • Fritillaria (4)
  • Gilliesia (2)
  • Hagenbachia (1)
  • Harperocallis (6)
  • Herreria (9)
  • Isidrogalvia (3)
  • Leucocoryne (31)
  • Miersia (2)
  • Milla (5)
  • Muilla (1)
  • Nietneria (2)
  • Nolina (5)
  • Nothoscordum (22)
  • Ornithogalum (2)
  • Oziroe (3)
  • Pasithea (9)
  • Schoenocaulon (19)
  • Scilla (1)
  • Solaria (1)
  • Steinmannia (1)
  • Tofieldia (7)
  • Trihesperus (2)
  • Tristagma (2)
  • Veratrum (3)
  • Zigadenus (1)