**Code**: [WIS](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126905) **Organization**: University of Wisconsin **Department**: Botany Department **Location**: Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. **Total number of specimens**: 1078000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1849 **Taxonomic coverage**: Worldwide aquatic plants; parasitic fungi; arctic lichens; Solanaceae, <Solanum>; New World Capparidaceae; Poaceae, especially <Zea> **Geographic coverage**: Wisconsin; central and southeastern U.S.; Ozarks; Mexico; tropical America; U.S.S.R.; worldwide **Incorporated herbaria**: Frank C. Seymour Herbarium (20 000 specimens) in 1957, MCW (2000 specimens) in 1982, UWJ (5500 specimens) in 1988, half of LCU (62 000 specimens) in 1985, UWL, in part (30 000 non-Wisconsin specimens), in 1996, MAD (30 000 specimens), including Y (17 000 specimens) in 2002., CART (13,000 specimens) in 2011 **Important collectors**: M. Bang, B. Benz, M. Cházaro, L. S. Cheney, G. P. Cooper, F. S. Crosswhite, H. M. Curran, J. J. Davis, O. Degener, C. H. Dodson, A. Ducke, G. E. Ehinger, N. C. Fassett, F. C. Gates, M. L. Grant, H. C. Greene, T. J. Hale, A. W. Haupt, H. H. Iltis, A. L. Kibbe, G. Klug, B. A. Krukoff, E. Lambert, A. B. Langlois, I. A. Lapham, E. L. Little, Jr., C. L. Lundell, Y. E. J. Mexia, H. N. Moldenke, H. O'Neill, K. M. Peterson, D. B. Pickel, C. A. Purpus, C. S. Rafinesque, S. J. Record, P. L. Ricker, H. H. Rusby, J. Rzedowski, F. C. Seymour, C. W. Short, A. C. Smith, H. H. Smith, P. C. Standley, W. Stern, L. Thien, I. F. Tidestrom, D. Ugent, L. M. Umbach, G. B. Van Schaack, S. H. Watson **Notes**: Updated Jan 2017 (staff updates). Extensive taxonomic/cytotaxonomic reprint collection, including libraries of E. K. and O. N. Allen (Leguminosae), D. C. Cooper, N. C. Fassett, F. J. Hermann, L. Huskins, and H. A. Senn. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2018-02-06 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.