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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.

Contacts: Andrew Miller, Ph.D., Mycologist and Director, amiller7@illinois.edu
Homepage: http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/collections
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Address:
Illinois Natural History Survey Herbarium
University of Illinois
1816 South Oak Street
Champaign, IL   61820
USA
217-244-0439
Collection Statistics
  • 284,778 specimen records
  • 65,937 (23%) georeferenced
  • 55,772 (20%) with images (55,838 total images)
  • 274,825 (97%) identified to species
  • 571 families
  • 3,114 genera
  • 13,746 species
  • 16,044 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthophyllum (3)
  • Achyronychia (2)
  • Agrostemma (41)
  • Aira (1)
  • Allochrusa (1)
  • Arenaria (127)
  • Cardionema (4)
  • Cerastium (559)
  • Dianthus (181)
  • Dichodon (4)
  • Drymaria (2)
  • Eremogone (4)
  • Gastrolychnis (2)
  • Geocarpon (2)
  • Gypsophila (20)
  • Herniaria (3)
  • Holosteum (62)
  • Honckenya (1)
  • Lepyrodiclis (1)
  • Loeflingia (2)
  • Lychnis (9)
  • Malachium (2)
  • Minuartia (99)
  • Moehringia (57)
  • Moenchia (1)
  • Myosoton (47)
  • Oberna (3)
  • Paronychia (243)
  • Petrorhagia (3)
  • Pleconax (1)
  • Polycarpon (2)
  • Pseudostellaria (1)
  • Sagina (28)
  • Saponaria (152)
  • Scleranthus (13)
  • Silene (775)
  • Spergula (3)
  • Spergularia (30)
  • Stellaria (274)
  • Stipulicida (3)
  • Tytthostemma (1)
  • Vaccaria (14)