Lucile McCook

Project Coordinator

• Staff
• Instructor

• Email:

  bymccook@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  407 SHOEMAKER HALL

• Phone:

  662-915-5488

Dr. McCook is a botanist who serves as an academic advisor and curates and manages the Pullen Herbarium.

Publications

McCook, L.M., and J. Kartesz. 2000. A preliminary checklist of the plants of Mississippi.

McCook, L.M. 1998. An annotated checklist of the genus Phragmipedium, the New World conduplicate- leaved slipper orchids. Orchid Digest 62(4; special pub.): 1-11.

Goldblatt, P., P. Hoch & L. McCook. 1993. Documenting scientific data: the need for voucher specimens. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 79(4): 608-609.

McCook, L.M. 1990. The genus Phragmipedium–Part II. Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 59(2): 153-158.

McCook, L.M. 1989. The genus Phragmipedium–Part I. Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 58(11): 1095-1100.

The Pullen Herbarium

I became Curator in 1998 and was awarded a 3-year National Science Foundation, Biological Research Collections, grant in 2001 to modernize and upgrade the plant collection and to database all collection information. Data from the ca 75,000 specimens in the Pullen Herbarium are available through our webpage, as is the preliminary checklist of the plants of Mississippi (McCook and Kartesz, 2000).

 

In 2012, our Consortium of Mississippi Herbaria received a 5-year NSF grant to pool all Mississippi and SE US herbarium data into one searchable web portal, including images and georeferenced data for all Mississippi collections. While still a work in progress, our collections are searchable on the SERNEC website.