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
  • Adenostoma (1)
  • Agrimonia (67)
  • Amelanchier (53)
  • Aronia (50)
  • Aruncus (13)
  • Crataegus (296)
  • Duchesnea (17)
  • Exochorda (2)
  • Fragaria (5)
  • Geum (49)
  • Gillenia (8)
  • Malus (19)
  • Mespilus (1)
  • Neviusia (9)
  • Photinia (3)
  • Physocarpus (2)
  • Porteranthus (1)
  • Potentilla (32)
  • Prunus (189)
  • Pyracantha (7)
  • Pyrus (15)
  • Rosa (106)
  • Rubus (68)
  • Spiraea (12)