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
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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 - Illinois
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Adams (87)
  • Alexander (13)
  • Boone (2)
  • Bureau (8)
  • Carroll (30)
  • Cass (32)
  • Champaign (295)
  • Clark (2)
  • Coles (10)
  • Cook (5447)
  • DeKalb (191)
  • DuPage (795)
  • Edgar (1)
  • Effingham (6)
  • Fayette (1)
  • Franklin (1)
  • Fulton (48)
  • Gallatin (1)
  • Hancock (4)
  • Hardin (2)
  • Henry (514)
  • Iroquois (1)
  • Jackson (102)
  • Jasper (57)
  • Jo Daviess (16)
  • Johnson (32)
  • Kane (34)
  • Kankakee (9)
  • Kendall (2)
  • Knox (5)
  • LaSalle (68)
  • Lake (432)
  • Lawrence (8)
  • Lee (11)
  • Madison (1)
  • Marion (3)
  • Marshall (1)
  • Mason (228)
  • McDonough (1)
  • McHenry (58)
  • McLean (64)
  • Menard (1)
  • Monroe (3)
  • Morgan (28)
  • Ogle (176)
  • Peoria (242)
  • Perry (7)
  • Piatt (68)
  • Pope (813)
  • Pulaski (19)
  • Randolph (1)
  • Richland (1)
  • Rock Island (469)
  • Sangamon (2)
  • Sauk (1)
  • Shelby (16)
  • St. Clair (2)
  • Stephenson (6)
  • Tazewell (2)
  • Union (172)
  • Vermilion (37)
  • Whiteside (2)
  • Will (37)
  • Williamson (4)
  • Winnebago (6)
  • Woodford (10)