THE MONTANA STATE
UNIVERSITY HERBARIUM (MONT)
408 Lewis Hall, Department of Plant Sciences and
Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717 USA
Curator: Matt
Lavin, Lavin's email, 406-994-2032
(office), 406-994-7600 (fax)
Curator of fungi: Cathy
Cripps, Cripp's email , 406-994-5226
(office), 406-994-7600 (fax)
Collections
manager: Cathy Seibert, Seibert's email,
406-994-4424 (herbarium)
Information:
Loan policy
Aquisition policy
Submission of
plants for taxonomic identification
Visitor
information
Plant
identification form
Projects:
Grasses of
Montana
The Flora of Burke
Park, Bozeman
Riparian and
aquatic weeds of Montana
Three
individuals are involved with the operation of the Montana State University
(MSU) Herbarium: Matt Lavin, Curator of the vascular plants, Cathy Cripps,
Curator of the fungi, and Catherine Seibert, Collections Manager. All are
involved in assisting and scheduling herbarium users, processing loan or data
requests, accessioning and databasing herbarium specimens. The MSU Herbarium is
particularly heavily used by graduate students at MSU, .
Research
on the flora of Montana began at the Montana State University (MSU)
Herbarium during
the 1890’s. This activity is reflected in its collections and particularly the
type collection, which consists of 253 holotypes and isotypes collected
principally by such notable botanists as 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, Memoirs of the New York Botanical
Garden 58) cite the type collections at MONT that are relevant to Rydberg,’s work
In
the last decade, Montana State University has been the only branch of the Montana University
System making a strong commitment to the field of systematics. In addition to
Lavin as the curator of the MSU Herbarium, Dr. Michael Ivie is the curator of the
collections in the Entomology Research Labs. Catherine Seibert is a one-half
time collections manager in the MSU Herbarium.
Plant Science & Plant Pathology