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)

• 39,966 specimen records
• 34,752 (87%) georeferenced
• 16,812 (42%) with images
• 37,882 (95%) identified to species
• 198 families
• 1,025 genera
• 3,147 species
• 3,699 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)