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.

Contacts: Heather Sullivan, heather.sullivan@mmns.state.ms.us
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d89aa398-9cf7-4b4c-97be-95f1eda5a3f9
Digital Metadata: EML File
Address:
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
2148 Riverside Drive
Jackson, Mississippi   39202
USA
601/ 576 6000
Collection Statistics
  • 58,102 specimen records
  • 54,934 (95%) georeferenced
  • 15,929 (27%) with images (16,017 total images)
  • 56,789 (98%) identified to species
  • 218 families
  • 1,142 genera
  • 3,823 species
  • 4,523 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Ammoselinum (2)
  • Angelica (17)
  • Apium (4)
  • Bowlesia (14)
  • Centella (8)
  • Chaerophyllum (60)
  • Cicuta (20)
  • Conium (3)
  • Cryptotaenia (46)
  • Cyclospermum (30)
  • Cynosciadium (14)
  • Daucus (17)
  • Erigenia (1)
  • Eryngium (104)
  • Hydrocotyle (1)
  • Ligusticum (3)
  • Lilaeopsis (19)
  • Limnosciadium (9)
  • Lomatium (3)
  • Osmorhiza (30)
  • Oxypolis (41)
  • Pastinaca (1)
  • Perideridia (4)
  • Polytaenia (15)
  • Ptilimnium (40)
  • Sanicula (111)
  • Scandix (2)
  • Sium (3)
  • Spermolepis (28)
  • Taenidia (5)
  • Thaspium (65)
  • Torilis (25)
  • Trepocarpus (34)
  • Zizia (14)