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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

  • 294,944 specimen records
  • 66,766 (23%) georeferenced
  • 55,772 (19%) with media (55,838 total media)
  • 284,867 (97%) identified to species
  • 600 families
  • 3,153 genera
  • 14,114 species
  • 16,514 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Upload: 1 December 2025
Digital Metadata: EML File
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