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
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
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
  • Agarista (2)
  • Andromeda (26)
  • Arbutus (5)
  • Arctostaphylos (56)
  • Befaria (1)
  • Bejaria (7)
  • Betula (1)
  • Calluna (7)
  • Cassiope (4)
  • Cavendishia (1)
  • Chamaedaphne (49)
  • Chimaphila (37)
  • Empetrum (5)
  • Enkianthus (7)
  • Epigaea (33)
  • Erica (5)
  • Eryngium (1)
  • Eubotrys (10)
  • Gaultheria (56)
  • Gaylussacia (146)
  • Gonocalyx (2)
  • Kalmia (119)
  • Ledum (15)
  • Leiophyllum (21)
  • Leucopogon (1)
  • Leucothoe (70)
  • Loiseleuria (1)
  • Lyonia (116)
  • Macleania (1)
  • Menziesia (18)
  • Mitchella (1)
  • Moneses (8)
  • Monotropa (126)
  • Monotropsis (4)
  • Orthilia (17)
  • Oxycoccus (1)
  • Oxydendrum (35)
  • Phyllodoce (7)
  • Pieris (21)
  • Pterospora (3)
  • Pyrola (59)
  • Rhododendron (323)
  • Styphelia (1)
  • Trochocarpa (2)
  • Vaccinium (788)
  • Woollsia (1)
  • Xylococcus (2)
  • Zenobia (13)