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Western Illinois University, ​R. M. Myers Herbarium (MWI)

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The R.M. Myers Herbarium contains more than 75,000 specimens, of which most are from western Illinois or southeastern Iowa. We hold a major collection of moss specimens from western Illinois, as well as a set of Opuntia fragilis specimens that document most areas where it grows in the midwest.

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Contacts:

  • Ranessa Cooper, RL-Cooper@wiu.edu

Collection Statistics

  • 42,498 specimen records
  • 4,037 (9%) georeferenced
  • 42,226 (99%) identified to species
  • 300 families
  • 2,002 genera
  • 6,234 species
  • 7,151 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

Extra Statistics

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Last Update: 18 December 2015
Global Unique Identifier: 5f887025-5ee0-453e-b25b-360c1f5e870a
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Digital Metadata:EML File
Usage Rights
Rights Holder: Western Illinois University
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Aegopodium (1)
  • Ammi (1)
  • Ammoselinum (1)
  • Anethum (3)
  • Angelica (12)
  • Anthriscus (5)
  • Berula (3)
  • Bowlesia (2)
  • Bupleurum (5)
  • Carum (1)
  • Centella (1)
  • Chaerophyllum (39)
  • Cicuta (49)
  • Conioselinum (1)
  • Conium (23)
  • Cryptotaenia (49)
  • Cyclospermum (3)
  • Cymopterus (8)
  • Daucus (67)
  • Erigenia (6)
  • Eryngium (23)
  • Eurytaenia (1)
  • Falcaria (1)
  • Foeniculum (2)
  • Glehnia (1)
  • Gymnophyton (1)
  • Harbouria (1)
  • Heracleum (21)
  • Hydrocotyle (8)
  • Laserpitium (1)
  • Ligusticum (7)
  • Limnosciadium (2)
  • Lomatium (34)
  • Musineon (1)
  • Orogenia (1)
  • Osmorhiza (72)
  • Oxypolis (4)
  • Pastinaca (36)
  • Perideridia (4)
  • Peucedanum (1)
  • Pimpinella (5)
  • Polytaenia (11)
  • Pseudocymopterus (5)
  • Pteryxia (2)
  • Ptilimnium (8)
  • Sanicula (85)
  • Seseli (3)
  • Sium (17)
  • Spermolepis (8)
  • Sphenosciadium (1)
  • Taenidia (18)
  • Tauschia (1)
  • Thaspium (43)
  • Torilis (26)
  • Trinia (1)
  • Yabea (1)
  • Zizia (44)