MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium

Christopher Tyrrell

doi:10.15468/sclgzd

MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium

Citation

Tyrrell C (2020). MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium. Milwaukee Public Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/sclgzd accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-21.

Description

The Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium houses around 200,000 specimens comprising vascular plants, nonvascular plants, fungi and lichens. Over 50% of the holdings are from the Upper Great Lakes region, 30% from the rest of North America and the remainder features a good representation of taxa worldwide. Special collections include: John T. Curtis Carroll University Collection. Albert M. Fuller Collection of Rubus: Eastern U.S.; 4 type specimens. Herman Hayward Collection of Black Hills plants: South Dakota. Emil P. Kruschke Collection of Crataegus: Upper Midwest; 21 type specimens. Charles E. Monroe Collection of Aster and Viola: Eastern U.S.; 5 type specimens. Huron H. Smith Ethnobotanical Collection: voucher material from Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Meskwaki, Ojibwe, Oneida, and Potawatomi Tribes gathered in the 1920s. W. Carl Taylor Collection of Isoetes: North America; 12 type specimens.

Sampling Description

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

Plants, fungi and lichens

Plantae
common name: Green plants rank: kingdom
Fungi
common name: Fungi and lichens rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

Global

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Christopher Tyrrell
originator
position: Research Curator
Milwaukee Public Museum
800 W Wells St
Milwaukee
53233
Wisconsin
US
Telephone: 414-278-2761
email: tyrrell@mpm.edu

Christopher Tyrrell
metadata author
position: Research Curator
Milwaukee Public Museum
800 W Wells St
Milwaukee
53233
Wisconsin
US
Telephone: 414-278-2761
email: tyrrell@mpm.edu

Christopher Tyrrell
user
position: Research Curator
Milwaukee Public Museum
800 W Wells St
Milwaukee
53233
Wisconsin
US
Telephone: 414-278-2761
email: tyrrell@mpm.edu

Christopher Tyrrell
administrative point of contact
position: Research Curator
Milwaukee Public Museum
800 W Wells St
Milwaukee
53233
Wisconsin
US
Telephone: 414-278-2761
email: tyrrell@mpm.edu