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.

Collections Manager: Kimberly Hansen, khansen@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 21 January 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information
Address:
Field Museum of Natural History
Herbarium
Botany Department
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL   60605-2496
U.S.A.
312-665-7861
Collection Statistics
  • 222,524 specimen records
  • 62,885 (28%) georeferenced
  • 177,559 (80%) with images (180,619 total images)
  • 213,966 (96%) identified to species
  • 284 families
  • 3,951 genera
  • 29,027 species
  • 31,129 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Aegopodium (1)
  • Aletes (1)
  • Ammi (2)
  • Anethum (5)
  • Angelica (31)
  • Anthriscus (1)
  • Apium (25)
  • Arracacia (40)
  • Aulospermum (1)
  • Berula (13)
  • Bowlesia (2)
  • Carum (23)
  • Centella (3)
  • Chaerophyllum (28)
  • Cicuta (73)
  • Coaxana (1)
  • Conioselinum (16)
  • Conium (68)
  • Coriandrum (6)
  • Coulterophytum (7)
  • Cryptotaenia (57)
  • Cyclospermum (5)
  • Cymopterus (1)
  • Cynomarathrum (1)
  • Daucus (35)
  • Deanea (6)
  • Donnellsmithia (8)
  • Enantiophylla (1)
  • Erigenia (9)
  • Eryngium (156)
  • Eulophus (3)
  • Foeniculum (4)
  • Glycosma (2)
  • Harperia (1)
  • Heracleum (39)
  • Hydrocotyle (65)
  • Langlassea (1)
  • Leptotaenia (2)
  • Lilaeopsis (4)
  • Lomatium (4)
  • Mathiasella (1)
  • Micropleura (7)
  • Museniopsis (7)
  • Musenium (1)
  • Myrrhidendron (4)
  • Nematosciadium (1)
  • Neogoezia (1)
  • Niphogeton (1)
  • Oenanthe (1)
  • Oreomyrrhis (3)
  • Oreonana (1)
  • Orogenia (1)
  • Osmorhiza (82)
  • Ottoa (5)
  • Oxypolis (53)
  • Pastinaca (50)
  • Perideridia (13)
  • Petroselinum (2)
  • Peucedanum (20)
  • Pimpinella (2)
  • Polytaenia (11)
  • Prionosciadium (20)
  • Pteryxia (1)
  • Ptilimnium (1)
  • Rhodosciadium (9)
  • Rhysopterus (1)
  • Sanicula (112)
  • Sium (31)
  • Spananthe (21)
  • Spermolepis (1)
  • Taenidia (38)
  • Tauschia (12)
  • Thaspium (32)
  • Torilis (4)
  • Velaea (2)
  • Zizia (105)