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Collection Profile for:
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.

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Address:

Illinois Natural History Survey Herbarium
University of Illinois
1816 South Oak Street
Champaign, IL   61820
USA
217-244-0439
http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/plants

Collection Statistics

  • 284,778 specimen records
  • 65,934 (23%) georeferenced
  • 55,772 (20%) with media (55,838 total media)
  • 274,832 (97%) identified to species
  • 571 families
  • 3,114 genera
  • 13,747 species
  • 16,050 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Androstephium (2)
  • Asparagus (187)
  • Barnardia (13)
  • Bloomeria (4)
  • Brodiaea (44)
  • Camassia (117)
  • Chionodoxa (2)
  • Chlorogalum (9)
  • Chlorophytum (2)
  • Convallaria (17)
  • Dichelostemma (54)
  • Dracaena (1)
  • Eucomis (1)
  • Hagenbachia (1)
  • Hastingsia (1)
  • Hosta (6)
  • Leucocrinum (6)
  • Liriope (4)
  • Maianthemum (713)
  • Manfreda (99)
  • Muilla (6)
  • Muscari (8)
  • Ophiopogon (2)
  • Ornithogalum (62)
  • Polygonatum (476)
  • Schoenolirion (1)
  • Scilla (6)
  • Thysanotus (1)
  • Triteleia (49)