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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
  • 65,937 (23%) georeferenced
  • 55,772 (20%) with images (55,838 total images)
  • 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
  • Allenrolfea (1)
  • Anabasis (1)
  • Atriplex (154)
  • Bassia (2)
  • Beta (1)
  • Blutaparon (4)
  • Ceratocarpus (4)
  • Chenopodium (780)
  • Climacoptera (2)
  • Corispermum (9)
  • Cycloloma (114)
  • Dysphania (4)
  • Eurotia (3)
  • Girgensohnia (1)
  • Grayia (1)
  • Halimocnemis (1)
  • Halocharis (1)
  • Halogeton (4)
  • Kalidium (3)
  • Kochia (82)
  • Krascheninnikovia (9)
  • Monolepis (6)
  • Salicornia (20)
  • Salsola (82)
  • Sarcobatus (10)
  • Sarcocornia (2)
  • Spinacia (2)
  • Suaeda (34)
  • Sympegma (2)