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
Geographic Distribution - Pennsylvania
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  • Adams (2)
  • Allegheny (41)
  • Beaver (2)
  • Bedford (13)
  • Berks (19)
  • Blair (2)
  • Bradford (1)
  • Bucks (63)
  • Butler (14)
  • Carbon (2)
  • Centre (68)
  • Chester (117)
  • Clearfield (1)
  • Columbia (14)
  • Crawford (2)
  • Cumberland (2)
  • Dauphin (142)
  • Delaware (37)
  • Easton (2)
  • Erie (28)
  • Fayette (1)
  • Forest (3)
  • Franklin (4)
  • Greene (1)
  • Huntingdon (29)
  • Indiana (2)
  • Jefferson (1)
  • Lackawanna (5)
  • Lancaster (393)
  • Lawrence (2)
  • Lebanon (37)
  • Lehigh (1)
  • Luzerne (25)
  • Lycoming (11)
  • Mercer (10)
  • Mifflin (15)
  • Monroe (97)
  • Montgomery (11)
  • Montour (2)
  • Northampton (253)
  • Northumberland (1)
  • Perry (25)
  • Philadelphia (77)
  • Pike (6)
  • Potter (9)
  • Schuylkill (15)
  • Somerset (7)
  • Sullivan (25)
  • Susquehanna (6)
  • Tioga (6)
  • Venango (1)
  • Warren (5)
  • Washington (3)
  • Wayne (5)
  • Westmoreland (22)
  • York (31)