Montana State University Herbarium

Bozeman, Montana 59717-3150 USA

Physical location on campus (this is not the shipping address): 408 Lewis Hall

General inquiries: email

Curator: Sylvia Kinosian. email

Affiliates:

Matt Lavin, emeritus. email

Marty Wojciechowski (previously at ASU). email

Mission. To focus on the native and introduced flora of Montana and adjacent regions, particularly rangeland and cropland settings. To assist MSU faculty and staff, federal agency staff, and others in plant identification and research, particularly with agricultural and rangeland research. To contribute to efforts that enhance the connectivity of herbaria in Montana and the Pacific Northwest region.

• Search MONT vascular plant specimens at the CPNWH and GBIF.
• Search MONT bryophyte specimens (now at WISC) at The Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria.
• Search MONT lichen specimens at The Consortium of Lichen Herbaria and GBIF.

MONT specimens include mostly the native and introduced plant species of Montana and associated environments, including rangeland and cropland settings given the long agricultural history of Montana State University. In addition, MONT collections focus on the flora of the northern Rocky Mountains, sagebrush steppe, and the northern prairie and associated gallery forests and other woodlands (e.g. ponderosa pine and Rocky Mountain juniper in the Missouri breaks). We accept exchange material on a limited basis and this restricted to new county and state records for Montana.

For the time being, Matt Lavin will assist and schedule herbarium users, processes loan or data requests, and accessions and image databases herbarium specimens into the MONT research collection. Because of limited working space and irregular schedules, appointments must be made to visit the herbarium. Please contact Sylvia Kinosian or Matt Lavin for more information.

The Montana State University Herbarium dates back to 1893 (MONT history by JH Rumely). The type specimen collection comprises 253 holotypes and isotypes, which were collected principally by J. W. Blankinship, P. A. Rydberg, and R. S. Williams, and secondarily by L. Constance, C. L. Hitchcock, F. D. Kelsey, J. F. MacBride, M. Mathias, A. Nelson, F. W. Pennel, and R. C. Rollins. Tiehm & Stafleu (1990) cite the type collections at MONT that are relevant to PA Rydberg's work.

Local historical project associated with MONT: Burke Park plant list (2005)