Carnegie Museum of Natural History Herbarium (CM-Botany)

The Carnegie Museum herbarium (CM) has over 530,000 worldwide vascular plant specimens as well as the best representation in any herbarium of specimens from western Pennsylvania and the Upper Ohio Basin. CM holds the private herbarium of Hannibal and Tyrecca Davis containing 20,000 specimens with a concentration on Rubus (Rosaceae).

Contacts: Bonnie L. Isaac (IsaacB@CarnegieMNH.org)

Related link: http://www.carnegiemnh.org/botany/collection.html

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

DwC-Archive Access Point: http://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/CM_DwC-A.zip

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Carnegie Museum of Natural History

• 533,750 specimen records
• 265,283 (50%) georeferenced
• 115,576 (22%) with images (115,588 total images)
• 484,998 (91%) identified to species
• 436 families
• 5,823 genera
• 37,436 species
• 42,368 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)