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Carnegie Museum of Natural History Herbarium (CM-Botany)

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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

  • 554,594 specimen records
  • 341,359 (62%) georeferenced
  • 233,148 (42%) with media (233,166 total media)
  • 534,963 (96%) identified to species
  • 487 families
  • 7,189 genera
  • 49,691 species
  • 56,225 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Upload: 11 September 2026
Data Cache: DwC-Archive File (last updated )
Digital Metadata: EML File
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Rights Holder: Carnegie Museum of Natural History