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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
Homepage: http://www.carnegiemnh.org/botany/collection.html
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 28 July 2021
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://midatlanticherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/CM-Botany_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Rights Holder: Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Address:
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Herbarium, Section of Botany
4400 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA   15213
USA
412-622-3253
Collection Statistics
  • 536,728 specimen records
  • 283,876 (53%) georeferenced
  • 158,050 (29%) with images (158,064 total images)
  • 490,432 (91%) identified to species
  • 441 families
  • 5,981 genera
  • 38,577 species
  • 43,503 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics