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
  • Acaena (88)
  • Agrimonia (5)
  • Alchemilla (44)
  • Amelanchier (2)
  • Ancistrum (1)
  • Aruncus (1)
  • Cerasus (5)
  • Cercocarpus (3)
  • Cowania (1)
  • Crataegus (9)
  • Cydonia (1)
  • Duchesnea (7)
  • Fallugia (1)
  • Fragaria (3)
  • Geum (18)
  • Guamatela (2)
  • Hesperomeles (107)
  • Holodiscus (8)
  • Horkelia (1)
  • Kageneckia (25)
  • Lachemilla (91)
  • Margyricarpus (14)
  • Osteomeles (7)
  • Photinia (6)
  • Physocarpus (1)
  • Polylepis (156)
  • Potentilla (29)
  • Poterium (1)
  • Prunus (227)
  • Pyrus (1)
  • Quillaja (2)
  • Rosa (5)
  • Rubus (146)
  • Sanguisorba (2)
  • Sericotheca (3)
  • Spiraea (3)
  • Tetraglochin (1)
  • Vauquelinia (9)