Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Herbarium (MMNS)

The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Herbarium currently consists of over ~70,000 mounted plant specimens, with approximately 2,000 unmounted specimens in various stages of preparation. Collections from ~29 states are found in the herbarium; however, the majority of the collection (93%) is composed of specimens from Mississippi.

Contact: Heather Sullivan (heather.sullivan@mmns.state.ms.us)

Home Page: http://www.mdwfp.com/seek-study/bio-collections/plants.aspx

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

• 45,703 specimen records
• 35,580 (78%) georeferenced
• 24,414 (53%) with images
• 44,587 (98%) identified to species
• 200 families
• 1,066 genera
• 3,398 species
• 3,992 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)