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A Gateway to Biodiversity, Human, and Environmental Specimens from our Natural History Museums

University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbarium, Bryophytes (WIS-Bryophytes)

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Herbarium, founded in 1849, is a museum collection of dried, labeled plants of state, national and international importance, which is used extensively for taxonomic and ecological research, as well as for teaching and public service. It contains the world's largest collection of Wisconsin plants, about one-third of its 1,000,000 specimens having been collected within the state. Most of the world's floras are well represented, and the holdings from certain areas, such as the Upper Midwest, eastern North America and western Mexico, are widely recognized as resources of global significance.
Contact: Kenneth M. Cameron (kmcameron@wisc.edu)
Home Page: https://herbarium.wisc.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 23 April 2020
DwC-Archive Publishing: http://fibonacci.math.wisc.edu/~rocha/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Consortium of North American Bryophytes
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 50,610 occurrence
  • 33,371 (66%) georeferenced
  • 48,292 (95%) with images
  • 48,204 (95%) identified to species
  • 162 families
  • 718 genera
  • 3,187 species
  • 3,337 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Show Geographic Distribution
Show Family Distribution
Geographic Distribution - Argentina
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