Explore the collection
Learn about MISSA holdings, regional strengths, and the continuing digitization of the collection.
The Mississippi State University Herbarium (MISSA) is a research and teaching collection with strong holdings from Mississippi and the southeastern United States, together with specimens from other regions of the world.
Plan a visit
MISSA is available by appointment for research, teaching, and other scholarly use.
Loans & policies
Researchers may request institutional loans or contact MISSA about collection use and specimen access.
A regional collection with a long history
MISSA preserves more than a century of botanical collecting and provides a permanent record of plant occurrence through time. The herbarium continues to grow through faculty and student collecting, gifts, exchanges, and research activity.