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; algae worldwide, especially Cyanobacteria; economic botany.

Collection Manager (Mycology & Lichenology): Todd Widhelm, twidhelm@fieldmuseum.org, 3126657057 (ORCID #: 0000-0001-6453-3429)
Curator: H. Thorsten Lumbsch, tlumbsch@fieldmuseum.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 26 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
Field Museum
1400 S Lake Shore Drive
Gantz Family Collection Center
Chicago, Illinois   60605
United States
3126657057
Collection Statistics
  • 71,428 specimen records
  • 42,714 (60%) georeferenced
  • 41,088 (58%) with images (100,480 total images)
  • 53,805 (75%) identified to species
  • 164 families
  • 859 genera
  • 7,827 species
  • 8,473 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - North Carolina
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Alexander (1)
  • Alleghany (2)
  • Anson (25)
  • Avery (8)
  • Bladen (5)
  • Buncombe (10)
  • Burke (16)
  • Carteret (13)
  • Caswell (1)
  • Chatham (15)
  • Cherokee (2)
  • Cleveland (2)
  • Columbus (11)
  • Dare (30)
  • Davidson (18)
  • Davie (6)
  • Durham (13)
  • Forsyth (163)
  • Gaston (19)
  • Graham (9)
  • Guilford (1)
  • Harnett (2)
  • Haywood/Transylvania (1)
  • Henderson (6)
  • Jackson (49)
  • Jones (3)
  • Macon (35)
  • Mecklenburg (19)
  • Mitchell (130)
  • Montgomery (22)
  • Moore (7)
  • Nash (2)
  • New Hanover (16)
  • Onslow (1)
  • Orange (2)
  • Pender (1)
  • Polk (7)
  • Randolph (4)
  • Robeson (1)
  • Rowan (4)
  • Stokes (78)
  • Surry (7)
  • Swain (45)
  • Transylvania (1)
  • Union (11)
  • Wake (11)
  • Watauga (15)
  • Wilkes (1)
  • Yadkin (5)