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).

Contacts: Bonnie L. Isaac, IsaacB@CarnegieMNH.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 April 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Collection Statistics
  • 545,512 specimen records
  • 319,693 (59%) georeferenced
  • 224,737 (41%) with images (224,753 total images)
  • 519,867 (95%) identified to species
  • 472 families
  • 7,054 genera
  • 47,922 species
  • 54,138 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Ontario
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Algoma (154)
  • Algoma Dist. (8)
  • Baie James (2)
  • Brant (1)
  • Bruce (54)
  • Carleton (103)
  • Carlton (2)
  • Cochrane (11)
  • Cochrane Dist. (1)
  • Durham (1)
  • Elgin (5)
  • Elgin/Oxford (1)
  • Essex (21)
  • Frontenac (4)
  • Ft. William (1)
  • Glengarry (1)
  • Greenville (1)
  • Grenville (1)
  • Grey (28)
  • Haldimand-Norfolk (3)
  • Haliburton (1)
  • Haliburton Dist. (2)
  • Halton (1)
  • Hastings (8)
  • Hudson Bay (3)
  • Hurkett (1)
  • Huron (10)
  • James Bay (19)
  • James Bay Region (15)
  • Kemora (1)
  • Kenogami (1)
  • Kenora (80)
  • Kenora Dist. (4)
  • Kent (28)
  • Kingston (1)
  • Lamark (1)
  • Lambton (17)
  • Lanark (19)
  • Leeds (12)
  • Lincoln (5)
  • Manitoulin (4)
  • Manitoulin Dist. (1)
  • Middlesex (2)
  • Muskoka (82)
  • Muskoka Dist. (1)
  • Nepean (1)
  • Nipigon (2)
  • Nipissing (2)
  • Nipissing Dist. (1)
  • Norfolk (8)
  • Northumberland (3)
  • Oliphant (1)
  • Ontario (1)
  • Ottawa (7)
  • Ottawa Dist. (2)
  • Parry sound (1)
  • Perry Sound (1)
  • Perth (3)
  • Peterborough (2)
  • Prescott (4)
  • RMOC (1)
  • Rainey River (1)
  • Rainy River (2)
  • Renfrew (76)
  • Russell (2)
  • SE (1)
  • Simcoe (26)
  • Slate River (1)
  • Slate River Dist. (1)
  • Stanley (1)
  • Sudbury (6)
  • Thunder Bay (246)
  • Thunder Bay Dist (1)
  • Thunder Bay Dist. (24)
  • Timiskaming District (84)
  • Victoria (3)
  • W coast of James Bay (2)
  • Waterloo (8)
  • Welland (2)
  • Wellington (2)
  • Wentworth (15)
  • Wingham (1)
  • York (1)