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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 - Indiana
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Brown (44)
  • Brown, (1)
  • Crawford (33)
  • Crawford, (7)
  • Delaware (7)
  • Fountain (17)
  • Fountain Copunty, (1)
  • Gibson (1)
  • Grant (7)
  • Hamilton (1)
  • Henry (7)
  • Marion (1)
  • Marion, (2)
  • Mongomery (2)
  • Montgomery (109)
  • Orange (1)
  • Owen, (1)
  • Parke (131)
  • Parke, (1)
  • Perry (9)
  • Porter (1)
  • Putnam (1)
  • Spencer (11)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • Vigo (3)
  • Warren (3)