**Code**: [F](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124518) **Organization**: Field Museum of Natural History **Department**: Botany Department **Location**: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. **Total number of specimens**: 2700000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1893 **Taxonomic coverage**: Phanerogams; pteridophytes; bryophytes; mosses; hepatics; 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 **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide with emphasis on tropical and North America, especially Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru; Central America, Andean South America, and Australasia; north temperate, South America, and south temperate **Incorporated herbaria**: Part of LCU, ABSH in 1986, 2012, NWU, fungi of CR, R. M. Schuster bryophyte collection, USFS forest survey collections of Costa Rica and Ecuador, University of Chicago, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois Medical Center, CHI (26 000 specimens) in 1990 (Arecaceae) and 1998, The University of Nebraska at Omaha (OMA) lichen herbarium (over 20,000 specimens) in 2021. **Important collectors**: M. Acosta Solis, M. Bang, E. S. Bastin, J. S. Blanchet, W. M. A. Brooke, A. M. Brenes, M. C. Carlson, J. Child, J. Cuatrecasas, A. H. Curtiss, A. E. Edgecombe, R. S. Egan, A. D. E. Elmer, B. E. Dahlgren, F. E. Drouet, G. F. Gaumer, A. F. M. Glaziou, E. T. Harper, A. W. C. T. Herre, A. S. Hitchcock, A. H. Gentry, L. D. Gómez, S. A. Harper, E. Hall, A. A. Heller, E. J. Hill, H. É. Jeanpert, G. Klug, B. A. Krukoff, A. E. Lawrence, D. P. Lewis, M. Lewis, J. F. Macbride, E. Matuda, H. L. de Mello Barreto, C. F. Millspaugh, J. M. Moçiño, A. Molina-R., M. Nee, E. J. Palmer, H. N. Patterson, J. A. Pavón y Jiménez, T. Plowman, C. G. Pringle, C. A. Purpus, H. Ruiz Lopez, A. Sagástegui Alva, G. O. K. Sainsbury, I. Sánchez Vega, C. Sbarbaro, P. O. Schallert, J. M. Schunke-Vigo, R. M. Schuster, M. de Sessé y Lacasta, A. B. Seymour, E. E. Sherff, R. Singer, J. K. Small, A. C. Smith, D. D. Soejarto, J. Soukup, R. Spruce, P. C. Standley, J. A. Steyermark, D. Richards, M. Taylor, E. Werdermann, A. Weberbauer, L. Williams, L. O. Williams, R. S. Williams **Notes**: Updated Jun 2023: electronic access to F database is available at: https://collections-botany.fieldmuseum.org/list Included are all types and more than 72 000 type photographs, primarily of neotropical plants in major European herbaria, taken prior to World War II. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2023-06-09 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.