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
  • Aeonium (1)
  • Altamiranoa (2)
  • Bryophyllum (6)
  • Cotyledon (7)
  • Crassula (72)
  • Dudleya (134)
  • Echeveria (267)
  • Gormania (1)
  • Graptopetalum (3)
  • Hylotelephium (39)
  • Kalanchoe (118)
  • Lenophyllum (5)
  • Pachyphytum (3)
  • Penthorum (206)
  • Phedimus (1)
  • Rhodiola (132)
  • Sedastrum (2)
  • Sedella (19)
  • Sedum (910)
  • Sempervivum (2)
  • Stylophyllum (7)
  • Thompsonella (2)
  • Tillaea (1)
  • Tillaeastrum (2)
  • Villadia (28)