Field Museum of Natural History (F)

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; economic botany.

Contacts: Wyatt Gaswick, wgaswick@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information
Collection Statistics
  • 103,469 specimen records
  • 77,178 (75%) georeferenced
  • 53,124 (51%) with images (110,488 total images)
  • 1 misc genetic references
  • 7,980 (8%) identified to species
  • 410 families
  • 567 genera
  • 1,092 species
  • 1,114 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - California
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Alameda (306)
  • Alpine (10)
  • Amador (14)
  • Butte (77)
  • Calaveras (9)
  • Colusa (3)
  • Contra Costa (49)
  • Del Norte (262)
  • El Dorado (53)
  • Fresno (13)
  • Glenn (2)
  • Humboldt (1163)
  • Imperial (2)
  • Lake (27)
  • Lassen (14)
  • Los Angeles (391)
  • Madera (3)
  • Marin (310)
  • Mariposa (21)
  • Mendocino (57)
  • Merced (2)
  • Modoc (7)
  • Mono (4)
  • Monterey (167)
  • Napa (10)
  • Nevada (17)
  • Orange (1)
  • Pierce (1)
  • Placer (5)
  • Plumas (37)
  • Riverside (44)
  • Sacramento (14)
  • San Benito (2)
  • San Bernardino (19)
  • San Diego (39)
  • San Francisco (103)
  • San Joaquin (2)
  • San Luis Obispo (3)
  • San Mateo (70)
  • Santa Barbara (8)
  • Santa Clara (57)
  • Santa Cruz (312)
  • Shasta (26)
  • Sierra (6)
  • Siskiyou (76)
  • Solano (17)
  • Sonoma (65)
  • Tehama (8)
  • Toulumne (1)
  • Trinity (71)
  • Tulare (35)
  • Tuolumne (70)
  • Ventura (3)
  • Woodside (1)
  • Yolo (3)
  • Yuba (7)