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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
  • Allium (6)
  • Aspidistra (2)
  • Calochortus (86)
  • Camassia (4)
  • Clintonia (60)
  • Dichelostemma (1)
  • Disporum (40)
  • Erythronium (301)
  • Fritillaria (10)
  • Gagea (3)
  • Gloriosa (1)
  • Hymenocallis (3)
  • Korolkowia (1)
  • Ledebouria (1)
  • Lilium (158)
  • Maianthemum (1)
  • Medeola (38)
  • Nothoscordum (2)
  • Polygonatum (1)
  • Prosartes (6)
  • Rhinopetalum (2)
  • Ripogonum (1)
  • Schoenolirion (1)
  • Scilla (1)
  • Smilacina (9)
  • Smilax (1)
  • Streptopus (21)
  • Tofieldia (1)
  • Tricyrtis (8)
  • Trillium (4)
  • Tulipa (9)
  • Uvularia (2)
  • Veratrum (1)
  • Yucca (1)
  • Zigadenus (2)