MIL: Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) Herbarium

Latest version published by Milwaukee Public Museum on Dec 9, 2024 Milwaukee Public Museum

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. Notable collectors include: John T. Curtis, Albert M. Fuller, Herman Hayward, Emil P. Kruschke, Charles E. Monroe, Huron H. Smith, W. Carl Taylor. Significant collections include: Ethnobotanical plants of the Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Meskwaki, Ojibwe, Oneida, and Potawatomi Tribes of the Great Lakes region; Isoetes of the world; Aster and Viola of eastern North America; Carroll University Herbarium.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 125,947 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Downloads

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Data as a DwC-A file download 125,947 records in English (9 MB) - Update frequency: irregular
Metadata as an EML file download in English (7 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (6 KB)

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Tyrrell C (2024): MIL: Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) Herbarium. v1.4. Milwaukee Public Museum. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=mil&v=1.4

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Milwaukee Public Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9168f50d-350e-4af1-ba97-17274f1faeaf.  Milwaukee Public Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Christopher Tyrrell
Research Curator
Milwaukee Public Museum 800 W Wells St 53233 Milwaukee Wisconsin US 414-278-2761

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Christopher Tyrrell
Research Curator
Milwaukee Public Museum 800 W Wells St 53233 Milwaukee Wisconsin US 414-278-2761

Who filled in the metadata:

Christopher Tyrrell
Research Curator
Milwaukee Public Museum 800 W Wells St 53233 Milwaukee Wisconsin US 414-278-2761

Who else was associated with the resource:

User
Christopher Tyrrell
Research Curator
Milwaukee Public Museum 800 W Wells St 53233 Milwaukee Wisconsin US 414-278-2761

Geographic Coverage

Global

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Plants, fungi and lichens

Kingdom  Plantae (Green plants),  Fungi (Fungi and lichens)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1826-01-01 / 2024-12-01

Collection Data

Collection Name Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium
Specimen preservation methods Dried and pressed

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 9168f50d-350e-4af1-ba97-17274f1faeaf
https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=mil