Field Museum of Natural History (F-Botany)

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.

Collections Manager: Kimberly Hansen, khansen@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 21 January 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Access Rights: http://fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-information
Address:
Field Museum of Natural History
Herbarium
Botany Department
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL   60605-2496
U.S.A.
312-665-7861
Collection Statistics
  • 222,524 specimen records
  • 62,885 (28%) georeferenced
  • 177,559 (80%) with images (180,619 total images)
  • 213,966 (96%) identified to species
  • 284 families
  • 3,951 genera
  • 29,027 species
  • 31,129 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Achnatherum (1)
  • Acroceras (1)
  • Aegilops (3)
  • Aegopogon (1)
  • Agropyron (2)
  • Agrostis (1485)
  • Aira (1)
  • Alopecurus (386)
  • Ammophila (18)
  • Andropogon (69)
  • Anthaenantia (1)
  • Anthephora (1)
  • Anthoxanthum (3)
  • Arberella (2)
  • Aristida (95)
  • Arrhenatherum (15)
  • Arthrostylidium (4)
  • Arundinella (4)
  • Arundo (3)
  • Atheropogon (1)
  • Avena (24)
  • Axonopus (15)
  • Bambusa (5)
  • Beckmannia (4)
  • Bothriochloa (6)
  • Bouteloua (42)
  • Brachiaria (2)
  • Brachyelytrum (11)
  • Brachypodium (3)
  • Briza (2)
  • Bromus (209)
  • Calamagrostis (100)
  • Calamovilfa (64)
  • Calderonella (2)
  • Cathestecum (6)
  • Cenchrus (45)
  • Chaetium (2)
  • Chascolytrum (1)
  • Chloris (8)
  • Chrysopogon (1)
  • Chusquea (19)
  • Cinna (26)
  • Coix (1)
  • Cortaderia (1)
  • Crypsis (10)
  • Cryptochloa (6)
  • Ctenium (3)
  • Cynodon (6)
  • Dactylis (37)
  • Dactyloctenium (2)
  • Danthonia (19)
  • Deschampsia (10)
  • Deyeuxia (2)
  • Dichanthelium (87)
  • Digitaria (19)
  • Dinebra (3)
  • Disakisperma (1)
  • Eatonia (1)
  • Echinochloa (689)
  • Eleusine (5)
  • Elionurus (1)
  • Elymus (35)
  • Elytrostachys (2)
  • Eragrostis (43)
  • Erianthus (1)
  • Eriochloa (8)
  • Eriochrysis (1)
  • Euchlaena (2)
  • Euclasta (1)
  • Eustachys (1)
  • Festuca (39)
  • Fourniera (3)
  • Gigantochloa (1)
  • Glyceria (931)
  • Graphephorum (3)
  • Guadua (9)
  • Gymnopogon (5)
  • Gymnotrix (1)
  • Gynerium (1)
  • Hesperostipa (1)
  • Heteropogon (1)
  • Hierochloe (1)
  • Hilaria (1)
  • Holcus (1)
  • Homolepis (2)
  • Hordeum (4)
  • Hymenachne (2)
  • Hyparrhenia (2)
  • Hyperthelia (1)
  • Ichnanthus (16)
  • Imperata (2)
  • Isachne (3)
  • Ischaemum (8)
  • Ixophorus (1)
  • Jouvea (1)
  • Lasiacis (27)
  • Leersia (4)
  • Leptochloa (6)
  • Leymus (1)
  • Lithachne (2)
  • Lolium (2)
  • Lophochlaena (1)
  • Luziola (6)
  • Lycurus (1)
  • Maclurolyra (2)
  • Megathyrsus (1)
  • Melica (18)
  • Melinis (2)
  • Merostachys (6)
  • Mesosetum (3)
  • Microchloa (3)
  • Milium (1)
  • Mnesithea (3)
  • Muhlenbergia (67)
  • Olmeca (3)
  • Olyra (13)
  • Opizia (1)
  • Oplismenus (5)
  • Orcuttia (5)
  • Orthoclada (1)
  • Oryza (1)
  • Oryzopsis (1)
  • Otatea (3)
  • Panicum (109)
  • Pariana (3)
  • Parodiolyra (3)
  • Paspalidium (14)
  • Paspalum (79)
  • Patis (2)
  • Pennisetum (1)
  • Pentarrhaphis (1)
  • Peyritschia (4)
  • Phalaris (4)
  • Pharus (11)
  • Phleum (11)
  • Phragmites (4)
  • Piptatheropsis (6)
  • Piptochaetium (2)
  • Pleuropogon (1)
  • Poa (3080)
  • Podagrostis (10)
  • Polypogon (2)
  • Polytrias (1)
  • Pringleochloa (1)
  • Pseudechinolaena (2)
  • Puccinellia (236)
  • Raddia (1)
  • Reimarochloa (1)
  • Rhipidocladum (6)
  • Rottboellia (2)
  • Saccharum (2)
  • Sacciolepis (3)
  • Schizachne (1)
  • Schizachyrium (7)
  • Secale (1)
  • Setaria (12)
  • Sorghastrum (4)
  • Sorghum (4)
  • Spartina (1)
  • Sphenopholis (5)
  • Sporobolus (21)
  • Steinchisma (1)
  • Stenotaphrum (2)
  • Stipa (6)
  • Streptochaeta (2)
  • Streptogyna (1)
  • Swallenia (1)
  • Swallenochloa (1)
  • Syntherisma (1)
  • Thrasya (3)
  • Torreyochloa (1)
  • Trachypogon (2)
  • Trichloris (1)
  • Tridens (8)
  • Triniochloa (1)
  • Triplasis (16)
  • Tripsacum (13)
  • Trisetum (23)
  • Triticum (14)
  • Tuctoria (1)
  • Uniola (2)
  • Urochloa (6)
  • Vulpia (17)
  • Zea (14)
  • Zeugites (12)
  • Zizania (27)