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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
  • Achetaria (1)
  • Agalinis (619)
  • Agastache (1)
  • Amphianthus (1)
  • Antirrhinum (7)
  • Aureolaria (252)
  • Bacopa (46)
  • Bartsia (1)
  • Besseya (28)
  • Brandisia (1)
  • Buchnera (57)
  • Capraria (8)
  • Castilleja (232)
  • Chaenorhinum (1)
  • Chelone (138)
  • Collinsia (106)
  • Consolida (1)
  • Cordylanthus (6)
  • Cymbalaria (3)
  • Dasistoma (75)
  • Digitalis (4)
  • Diplacus (2)
  • Dodartia (5)
  • Erythranthe (2)
  • Euphrasia (19)
  • Gerardia (1)
  • Gratiola (237)
  • Keckiella (4)
  • Kickxia (14)
  • Lagotis (2)
  • Leptorhabdos (6)
  • Leucophyllum (6)
  • Leucospora (184)
  • Linaria (212)
  • Lindernia (342)
  • Mazus (9)
  • Mecardonia (8)
  • Melampyrum (29)
  • Mertensia (1)
  • Micranthemum (1)
  • Mimulus (462)
  • Minuartia (1)
  • Nuttallanthus (27)
  • Odontites (1)
  • Orthocarpus (9)
  • Parentucellia (1)
  • Pedicularis (214)
  • Penstemon (1209)
  • Rhinanthus (10)
  • Russelia (3)
  • Scoparia (1)
  • Scrophularia (325)
  • Seymeria (7)
  • Siphonostegia (9)
  • Sophronanthe (3)
  • Striga (1)
  • Synthyris (2)
  • Tomanthera (20)
  • Tonella (5)
  • Torenia (5)
  • Triphysaria (22)
  • Verbascum (353)
  • Veronica (743)
  • Veronicastrum (349)