Carnegie Museum of Natural History Herbarium (CM)

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).

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

Home Page: http://www.carnegiemnh.org/botany/collection.html

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Carnegie Museum of Natural History

• 525,281 specimen records
• 178,966 (34%) georeferenced
• 448,633 (85%) identified to species
• 405 families
• 4,964 genera
• 29,565 species
• 32,680 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)