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Missouri Botanical Garden (MO-MO)

The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Herbarium is one of the world’s outstanding research resources for specimens and information on bryophytes and vascular plants. The collection is limited to these two major groups of plants. As of 31 December 2020 the herbarium collection had 6.93 million mounted specimens (6.33 million vascular plants and 598,000 bryophytes). This specimen dataset includes over 4.7 million records (4.3 million vascular plants and 380,000 bryophytes).

Curator and Director of the Herbarium: Jordan Teisher, jteisher@mobot.org
Programmer Analyst: Heather Stimmel, heather.stimmel@mobot.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 September 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Collection Statistics
  • 147,310 specimen records
  • 65,754 (45%) georeferenced
  • 70,197 (48%) with images (296,140 total images)
  • 87,815 (60%) identified to species
  • 509 families
  • 3,803 genera
  • 18,164 species
  • 18,357 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics