Rocky Mountain Herbarium - University of Wyoming
Department of Botany, Dept. 3165
University of Wyoming
1000 East University Avenue
Laramie, Wyoming 82071-3165
United States
Ron Hartman
Email: RHartman@uwyo.edu
Larry Schmidt
Email: LSchmidt@uwyo.edu
The RM Herbarium is an essential resource for education, research, and public service. RM also includes the National Herbarium of the U. S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Wilhelm G. Solheim Mycological Herbarium (RMS).
The RM Herbarium was founded in 1893 by Aven Nelson. It has since grown to over 800,000 specimens with approximately 25,000 new specimens added each year.
The Rocky Mountain Herbarium Library is an official non-circulating branch of the University of Wyoming Libraries. It contains an excellent collection of systematics literature for North America and major floristics and systematics treatments for the world.