Field Museum of Natural History (F-Plants)

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.
Contacts: Christine Niezgoda, cniezgoda@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 September 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information
Collection Statistics
  • 36,479 specimen records
  • 29,334 (80%) georeferenced
  • 25,980 (71%) with images (35,622 total images)
  • 34,638 (95%) identified to species
  • 240 families
  • 1,842 genera
  • 8,463 species
  • 8,657 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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Taxon Distribution
  • Acmella (1)
  • Ageratina (4)
  • Ageratum (2)
  • Archibaccharis (1)
  • Austroeupatorium (1)
  • Ayapana (3)
  • Baccharis (3)
  • Baltimora (1)
  • Calea (2)
  • Centratherum (1)
  • Chromolaena (1)
  • Cirsium (1)
  • Clibadium (7)
  • Condylidium (1)
  • Conyza (2)
  • Cosmos (1)
  • Critonia (1)
  • Cyanthillium (2)
  • Delilia (1)
  • Diplostephium (1)
  • Dyssodia (1)
  • Eclipta (1)
  • Elaphandra (1)
  • Elephantopus (3)
  • Emilia (1)
  • Erechtites (1)
  • Erigeron (3)
  • Eupatorium (10)
  • Fleischmannia (8)
  • Gnaphalium (3)
  • Hebeclinium (1)
  • Hemibaccharis (2)
  • Heterocondylus (1)
  • Ichthyothere (1)
  • Jessea (2)
  • Koanophyllon (3)
  • Laestadia (1)
  • Lepidaploa (3)
  • Liabum (2)
  • Lycoseris (2)
  • Melampodium (3)
  • Melanthera (1)
  • Mikania (15)
  • Myriactis (1)
  • Neomirandea (4)
  • Neurolaena (2)
  • Onoseris (2)
  • Oyedaea (1)
  • Pectis (3)
  • Pentacalia (2)
  • Piptocoma (2)
  • Pluchea (6)
  • Pseudelephantopus (2)
  • Pseudogynoxys (1)
  • Rolandra (1)
  • Sabazia (1)
  • Salmea (1)
  • Schistocarpha (1)
  • Senecio (17)
  • Simsia (1)
  • Sinclairia (2)
  • Spilanthes (2)
  • Spiracantha (1)
  • Struchium (1)
  • Synedrella (1)
  • Tagetes (1)
  • Tessaria (1)
  • Tilesia (1)
  • Tithonia (3)
  • Tridax (1)
  • Trixis (1)
  • Verbesina (9)
  • Vernonanthura (2)
  • Vernonia (4)
  • Wedelia (2)
  • Zexmenia (4)