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Illinois Natural History Survey (ILLS)

The herbarium contains 250,000 plant and 58,000 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.

Director of the Herbarium/Fungarium: Andrew Miller, amiller7@illinois.edu
Homepage: http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/animals_plants/index.html
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 26 May 2020
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://lichenportal.org/portal/content/dwca/ILLS_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 19,774 specimen records
  • 19,762 (100%) georeferenced
  • 18,559 (94%) identified to species
  • 120 families
  • 332 genera
  • 1,646 species
  • 1,696 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Illinois
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Adams (17)
  • Alexander (36)
  • Brown (3)
  • Bureau (11)
  • Calhoun (14)
  • Carroll (15)
  • Cass (5)
  • Champaign (20)
  • Champaign, (3)
  • Christian (1)
  • Clark (475)
  • Clark Couty (1)
  • Clark. (1)
  • Clay (9)
  • Clinton (1)
  • Cole (1)
  • Coles (542)
  • Coles, (1)
  • Coles. (1)
  • Cook (2)
  • Crawford (34)
  • Cumberland (4)
  • DeWitt (9)
  • DeÊWitt (1)
  • Du Page (8)
  • DuPage (1)
  • Edgar (3)
  • Effingham (11)
  • Fayette (13)
  • Ford (5)
  • Franklin (5)
  • Fulton (7)
  • Gallain (1)
  • Gallatiin (1)
  • Gallatin (161)
  • Green (1)
  • Greene (9)
  • Hancock (12)
  • Hardin (48)
  • Hardin, (1)
  • Henderson (5)
  • Henry (3)
  • Iroqouis (1)
  • Jackson (389)
  • Jackson/Union (1)
  • Jasper (9)
  • Jefferson (13)
  • Jersey (20)
  • Jo Davies (2)
  • Jo Daviess (59)
  • Johnson (239)
  • Johnson, (1)
  • JoÊDaviess (2)
  • Kane (1)
  • Knox (1)
  • La Salle (14)
  • LaSalle (7)
  • Lake (19)
  • Lawrence (34)
  • Lee (17)
  • Lee, (4)
  • Livingston (3)
  • Macon (2)
  • Macoupin (61)
  • Madison (2)
  • Marion (19)
  • Marshall (9)
  • Mason (59)
  • Massac (6)
  • Mc Lean (1)
  • McDonough (14)
  • McLean (6)
  • Monroe (44)
  • Monroe, (1)
  • Montgomery (4)
  • Morgan (2)
  • Moultrie (7)
  • Ogle (30)
  • Peoria (2)
  • Perry (14)
  • Piatt (14)
  • Pike (12)
  • Pope (1033)
  • Pope, (7)
  • Pulaski (3)
  • Putnam (17)
  • Randolph (159)
  • Rock Island (11)
  • SaintÊClair (1)
  • Saliine (1)
  • Saline (162)
  • Saline, (1)
  • Sangamon (10)
  • Schuyler (11)
  • Shelby (3)
  • St. Clair (25)
  • Stark (3)
  • Stephenson (17)
  • Tazewell (1)
  • Union (383)
  • Union, (2)
  • Vermilion (51)
  • Vermillion (4)
  • Wabash (1)
  • Washington (31)
  • Wayne (2)
  • White (2)
  • Whiteside (2)
  • Will (18)
  • Williamson (61)
  • Williamson, (1)
  • Winnebago (8)
  • Woodford (1)