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Carnegie Museum of Natural History Herbarium (CM-Botany)

The Carnegie Museum herbarium (CM) has over 540,000 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).

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Collection Statistics

  • 547,970 specimen records
  • 324,958 (59%) georeferenced
  • 228,349 (42%) with images (228,366 total images)
  • 527,781 (96%) identified to species
  • 474 families
  • 7,119 genera
  • 49,039 species
  • 55,311 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 January 2025
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Digital Metadata: EML File
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Rights Holder: Carnegie Museum of Natural History