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University of Minnesota Herbarium (MIN)

The Bell Museum was established in 1872 by the state legislature. The Herbarium started in 1889 with the purchase of John Sandberg's private collection (6000 specimens). The representation of Minnesota's flora is unparalleled and the assemblage of historic flora of the Upper Midwest is among the best in the U.S. Additionally there are excellent collections of circumboreal and arctic material and historical collections of H. Rusby and R. Squires (1895-1896, Orinoco River delta), J.W. Congdon (1894-1903, California, especially the Yosemite region); South Pacific collections of J. Tilden, A.A. Heller, and J.W. Moore; and more recent Papua New Guinea flora (G. Weiblen and students). Currently the Herbarium contains approximately 940,000 botanical and mycological specimens combined. Only the vascular plant records are being posted to this site at this time.
Contacts: Timothy J. S. Whitfeld, whitf015@umn.edu
Homepage: http://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/ResearchandTeaching/Collections/ScientificCollection/PlantCollection/index.htm
Source dataset: https://bellatlas.umn.edu/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=1
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 April 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Address:
Bell Museum
University of Minnesota
140 Gortner Laboratory
1479 Gortner Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota   55108-1095
USA
612-625-0215
Collection Statistics
  • 291,443 specimen records
  • 188,092 (65%) georeferenced
  • 206,723 (71%) with images (213,002 total images)
  • 276,046 (95%) identified to species
  • 338 families
  • 2,356 genera
  • 10,794 species
  • 12,740 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics