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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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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
  • Aconogonon (3)
  • Antenoron (14)
  • Atraphaxis (11)
  • Bistorta (6)
  • Brunnichia (52)
  • Centrostegia (6)
  • Chorizanthe (46)
  • Coccoloba (10)
  • Emex (1)
  • Epilobium (1)
  • Eriogonum (200)
  • Fagopyrum (36)
  • Fallopia (20)
  • Homalocladium (1)
  • Koenigia (1)
  • Lastarriaea (7)
  • Mucronea (3)
  • Oxyria (10)
  • Persicaria (175)
  • Polygala (1)
  • Polygonella (39)
  • Polygonum (3765)
  • Pterostegia (10)
  • Reynoutria (3)
  • Rheum (12)
  • Rumex (1128)
  • Tracaulon (1)
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