Illinois Natural History Survey (ILLS)
The herbarium contains 280,000 plant specimens and the fungarium contains 75,000 fungal specimens.
Specialty: Vascular plants and fungi of Illinois, southeastern and midwestern U.S., Great Smoky Mountains National Park; limited neotropical; recent Kyrgyzstan; Rosaceae subfamily Maloideae.
Date Founded: 1858.
Contacts: Andrew Miller, Ph.D., Mycologist and Director, amiller7@illinois.edu
Homepage: http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/collections
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Address:
Illinois Natural History Survey Herbarium
University of Illinois
1816 South Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820
USA
217-244-0439
Collection Statistics
- 284,778 specimen records
- 65,937 (23%) georeferenced
- 55,772 (20%) with images (55,838 total images)
- 265,735 (93%) identified to species
- 571 families
- 3,080 genera
- 13,529 species
- 14,574 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
