Michigan State University
Plant Biology Laboratories
Michigan State University
612 Wilson Rd., Room 166
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
United States
L. Alan Prather, Director
Email: alan@msu.edu
The Michigan State University Herbarium (MSC) was founded in 1863 with the donation of a large collection of plants from Michigan and the eastern U.S. Today, we remain focused on plant and fungal diversity from Michigan, but the collection is also rich in plants from Mexico and southeast Asia, and lichens from the Caribbean and the subantarctic region. With over half a million specimens, the MSU Herbarium is among the 50 largest herbaria in the United States, whereas the lichen collection, with 120,000 accessioned collections, is among the 10 largest in North America and, because of its geographical scope, of international importance.