MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium

Christopher Tyrrell1

1 Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W Wells St, 53233, Milwaukee, United States

Corresponding author(s): Christopher Tyrrell (tyrrell@mpm.edu)

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Resource Citation

Tyrrell C (2023): MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium. v1.3. Milwaukee Public Museum. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=mil&v=1.3

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=mil

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Plants, fungi and lichens
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae, Fungi
Common names: Green plants, Fungi and lichens

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Global
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1826 - October 31, 2023

Natural collections description

Collection name: Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium
Specimen preservation method: Dried and pressed

Methods

Method step description: 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.mpm.edu/archive.do?r=mil
Publication date of data: 2023-11-10
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-03-23
Hierarchy level: Dataset