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Missouri Botanical Garden (MO-Seed Plants)

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).

Collection Statistics

  • 272,025 specimen records
  • 167,317 (62%) georeferenced
  • 147,413 (54%) with images (231,477 total images)
  • 220,638 (81%) identified to species
  • 478 families
  • 4,667 genera
  • 29,991 species
  • 33,913 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 December 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: TROPICOS IPT all plants
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Alyssum (1)
  • Anastatica (2)
  • Arabidopsis (13)
  • Arabis (3)
  • Biscutella (2)
  • Brachycarpaea (4)
  • Brassica (16)
  • Capsella (2)
  • Cardamine (19)
  • Cardaria (1)
  • Chamira (2)
  • Clypeola (1)
  • Coronopus (2)
  • Diceratella (1)
  • Enarthrocarpus (1)
  • Eremobium (25)
  • Eruca (3)
  • Erucaria (3)
  • Erucastrum (4)
  • Erysimum (1)
  • Farsetia (5)
  • Heliophila (72)
  • Heliophylla (1)
  • Lepidium (17)
  • Lobularia (1)
  • Malcolmia (8)
  • Matthiola (8)
  • Morettia (1)
  • Moricandia (4)
  • Nasturtium (1)
  • Neslia (1)
  • Notoceras (1)
  • Olimarabidopsis (2)
  • Oreophyton (1)
  • Parolinia (1)
  • Ptilotrichum (1)
  • Raphanus (2)
  • Rapistrum (1)
  • Robeschia (1)
  • Rorippa (11)
  • Savignya (1)
  • Schimpera (1)
  • Sisymbrium (7)
  • Strigosella (1)
  • Subularia (1)
  • Thlaspeocarpa (3)
  • Zilla (2)
  • Zuvanda (2)