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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
  • Acaena (1)
  • Adenostoma (3)
  • Agrimonia (713)
  • Alchemilla (7)
  • Amelanchier (483)
  • Amygdalus (5)
  • Aphanes (6)
  • Argentina (1)
  • Aronia (135)
  • Aruncus (173)
  • Cerasus (9)
  • Cercocarpus (15)
  • Chaenomeles (36)
  • Chamaebatia (1)
  • Chamaebatiaria (8)
  • Chrysobalanus (1)
  • Coelogyne (1)
  • Coleogyne (1)
  • Comarum (3)
  • Cotoneaster (206)
  • Crataegus (1114)
  • Cydonia (5)
  • Dalibarda (5)
  • Dryas (7)
  • Drymocallis (1)
  • Duchesnea (28)
  • Eriobotrya (8)
  • Exochorda (10)
  • Fallugia (6)
  • Filipendula (24)
  • Fragaria (282)
  • Geum (1058)
  • Hesperomeles (11)
  • Heteromeles (6)
  • Hirtella (1)
  • Holodiscus (8)
  • Horkelia (9)
  • Hulthemia (1)
  • Ivesia (1)
  • Kerria (8)
  • Lachemilla (9)
  • Luetkea (5)
  • Malacomeles (6)
  • Malus (534)
  • Margyricarpus (1)
  • Mespilus (4)
  • Neillia (1)
  • Neviusia (9)
  • Oemleria (1)
  • Orthurus (1)
  • Osteomeles (14)
  • Padellus (2)
  • Padus (2)
  • Pentaphylloides (6)
  • Peraphyllum (10)
  • Petrophyton (1)
  • Photinia (78)
  • Physocarpus (91)
  • Polylepis (7)
  • Porteranthus (229)
  • Potentilla (1100)
  • Poterium (4)
  • Prinsepia (3)
  • Prunus (1405)
  • Purshia (20)
  • Pyracantha (30)
  • Pyrus (115)
  • Rhaphiolepis (14)
  • Rhodotypos (9)
  • Rosa (1211)
  • Rubus (1254)
  • Sanguisorba (24)
  • Sibbaldia (4)
  • Sibbaldiopsis (3)
  • Sieversia (1)
  • Sorbaria (10)
  • Sorbus (313)
  • Spiraea (287)
  • Stephanandra (3)
  • Stranvaesia (1)
  • Trautvetteria (1)
  • Vauquelinia (2)
  • Waldsteinia (14)
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