University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota Herbarium, a division of the Bell Museum of Natural History, is located in the Biological Sciences tower on the St. Paul campus, corner of Gortner and Buford Aves, Room 875.

The distribution of specimens (approximately 900,000 total) is worldwide, though the majority are from the northern hemisphere.

• Vascular plants approximately 600,000
• Bryophytes approximately 50,000
• Algae approximately 13,000
• Lichens approximately 140,000
• Fungi approximately 90,000

In 2000, the Museum was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation, to install a compactorized storage system. The fungi and lichen collections have been totally renovated and a small portion of the plant (primarily monocots) collection has been converted.

Materials contributed by University of Minnesota (MIN):

• Specimens