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
  • Agastache (3)
  • Alguelagum (1)
  • Alvesia (1)
  • Asterohyptis (10)
  • Brachystemum (2)
  • Brittonastrum (5)
  • Bystropogon (13)
  • Calamintha (3)
  • Cantinoa (92)
  • Catoferia (4)
  • Ceratominthe (3)
  • Clinopodium (197)
  • Condea (19)
  • Cuminia (3)
  • Cunila (20)
  • Cyanocephalus (3)
  • Eplingia (1)
  • Eplingiella (3)
  • Eriope (109)
  • Eriopidion (1)
  • Gardoquia (8)
  • Glechon (59)
  • Hedeoma (63)
  • Hemistegia (2)
  • Hesperozygis (24)
  • Hoehnea (5)
  • Hypenia (20)
  • Hyptidendron (72)
  • Hyptis (2104)
  • Keithia (2)
  • Lamium (12)
  • Leonotis (52)
  • Leonurus (61)
  • Lepechinia (317)
  • Leucas (1)
  • Lycopus (1)
  • Marrubium (64)
  • Marsypianthes (137)
  • Martianthus (3)
  • Medusantha (2)
  • Melissa (17)
  • Mentha (78)
  • Mesosphaerum (26)
  • Micromeria (9)
  • Minthostachys (251)
  • Monarda (9)
  • Obtegomeria (1)
  • Ocimum (179)
  • Oocephalus (19)
  • Origanum (1)
  • Peltodon (60)
  • Perilomia (7)
  • Poliomintha (1)
  • Prunella (23)
  • Pycnanthemum (3)
  • Rhabdocaulon (28)
  • Rhaphiodon (14)
  • Rosmarinus (8)
  • Salvia (2178)
  • Satureja (378)
  • Scutellaria (310)
  • Solenostemon (7)
  • Sphacele (32)
  • Stachys (391)
  • Tetraclea (4)
  • Teucrium (95)
  • Thymus (5)