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
  • Acroceras (1)
  • Agrostis (65)
  • Andropogon (5)
  • Anthephora (1)
  • Arberella (2)
  • Aristida (4)
  • Arthrostylidium (1)
  • Arundinella (1)
  • Axonopus (7)
  • Bambusa (5)
  • Bothriochloa (3)
  • Bouteloua (1)
  • Calderonella (2)
  • Cenchrus (3)
  • Chaetium (1)
  • Chloris (1)
  • Chrysopogon (1)
  • Chusquea (14)
  • Cinna (1)
  • Cortaderia (1)
  • Cryptochloa (3)
  • Cynodon (1)
  • Dactyloctenium (1)
  • Dichanthelium (1)
  • Digitaria (8)
  • Echinochloa (45)
  • Eleusine (1)
  • Elionurus (1)
  • Elytrostachys (2)
  • Eragrostis (4)
  • Eriochloa (1)
  • Eriochrysis (1)
  • Eustachys (1)
  • Festuca (3)
  • Guadua (3)
  • Gymnopogon (1)
  • Gynerium (1)
  • Hierochloe (2)
  • Holcus (1)
  • Homolepis (2)
  • Hymenachne (2)
  • Hyparrhenia (2)
  • Ichnanthus (7)
  • Imperata (1)
  • Isachne (3)
  • Ischaemum (4)
  • Jouvea (1)
  • Lasiacis (12)
  • Leptochloa (2)
  • Lithachne (1)
  • Luziola (1)
  • Maclurolyra (2)
  • Megathyrsus (1)
  • Melinis (1)
  • Merostachys (1)
  • Mesosetum (1)
  • Mnesithea (2)
  • Muhlenbergia (4)
  • Olyra (9)
  • Oplismenus (2)
  • Orthoclada (1)
  • Oryza (1)
  • Panicum (24)
  • Pariana (5)
  • Parodiolyra (3)
  • Paspalum (29)
  • Pennisetum (1)
  • Pharus (9)
  • Phragmites (1)
  • Poa (22)
  • Polypogon (1)
  • Polytrias (1)
  • Rhipidocladum (4)
  • Rottboellia (1)
  • Saccharum (2)
  • Sacciolepis (1)
  • Schizachyrium (1)
  • Setaria (6)
  • Sporobolus (3)
  • Streptochaeta (2)
  • Swallenochloa (1)
  • Thrasya (3)
  • Trachypogon (1)
  • Triplasis (1)
  • Tripsacum (1)
  • Trisetum (1)
  • Uniola (1)
  • Urochloa (3)
  • Zeugites (1)