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
  • Alonsoa (101)
  • Angelonia (42)
  • Antirrhinum (1)
  • Aragoa (1)
  • Bacopa (47)
  • Basistemon (12)
  • Benjaminia (1)
  • Berendtiella (1)
  • Calceolaria (837)
  • Capraria (26)
  • Chelone (9)
  • Conobea (7)
  • Desdemona (1)
  • Fagelia (4)
  • Faxonanthus (1)
  • Galvezia (15)
  • Geochorda (1)
  • Gomara (2)
  • Gratiola (6)
  • Hassleropsis (1)
  • Hemimeris (1)
  • Herpestis (36)
  • Hydranthelium (2)
  • Jovellana (3)
  • Leucocarpus (5)
  • Leucophyllum (1)
  • Limosella (7)
  • Linaria (21)
  • Lindernia (16)
  • Lophospermum (5)
  • Maurandya (7)
  • Mecardonia (16)
  • Micranthemum (4)
  • Mimulus (22)
  • Monttea (13)
  • Ourisia (27)
  • Pagesia (1)
  • Penstemon (29)
  • Porodittia (2)
  • Russelia (44)
  • Saccanthus (6)
  • Schelveria (1)
  • Scoparia (35)
  • Scrophularia (3)
  • Sibthorpia (9)
  • Sphaerotheca (1)
  • Stemodia (70)
  • Tetraplacus (2)
  • Torenia (3)
  • Uroskinnera (2)
  • Usteria (1)
  • Velloziella (1)
  • Verbascum (1)
  • Veronica (92)