Western Illinois University, ​R. M. Myers Herbarium (MWI)

The R.M. Myers Herbarium contains more than 75,000 specimens, of which most are from western Illinois or southeastern Iowa. We hold a major collection of moss specimens from western Illinois, as well as a set of Opuntia fragilis specimens that document most areas where it grows in the midwest.

Contacts: Ranessa Cooper, RL-Cooper@wiu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5f887025-5ee0-453e-b25b-360c1f5e870a
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Western Illinois University
Collection Statistics
  • 42,498 specimen records
  • 4,037 (9%) georeferenced
  • 42,226 (99%) identified to species
  • 300 families
  • 2,002 genera
  • 6,234 species
  • 7,151 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Aliciella (8)
  • Collomia (6)
  • Eriastrum (1)
  • Gilia (8)
  • Ipomopsis (13)
  • Langloisia (2)
  • Leptodactylon (2)
  • Leptosiphon (2)
  • Linanthus (6)
  • Loeseliastrum (1)
  • Microsteris (2)
  • Navarretia (5)
  • Phlox (135)
  • Polemonium (30)