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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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GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/f3f03cbf-1a01-4739-ae15-c1355b8c2dbf

Collection Statistics

  • 552,939 specimen records
  • 340,995 (62%) georeferenced
  • 233,148 (42%) with media (233,166 total media)
  • 533,285 (96%) identified to species
  • 480 families
  • 7,178 genera
  • 49,649 species
  • 56,175 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Upload: 28 April 2026
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Digital Metadata: EML File
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Rights Holder: Carnegie Museum of Natural History