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
  • Arabidopsis (4)
  • Arabis (3)
  • Barbarea (1)
  • Boechera (20)
  • Brassica (13)
  • Cakile (5)
  • Capsella (10)
  • Cardamine (119)
  • Conringia (1)
  • Dentaria (1)
  • Descurainia (5)
  • Diplotaxis (1)
  • Draba (12)
  • Erucastrum (8)
  • Erysimum (2)
  • Hesperis (2)
  • Heuchera (1)
  • Isatis (1)
  • Lepidium (52)
  • Lobularia (3)
  • Lunaria (1)
  • Nasturtium (6)
  • Neobeckia (6)
  • Raphanus (18)
  • Rapistrum (2)
  • Rorippa (30)
  • Sibara (12)
  • Sisymbrium (6)
  • Streptanthus (1)
  • Teesdalia (1)
  • Thlaspi (3)
  • Thysanocarpus (1)