Illinois Natural History Survey (ILLS)

The herbarium contains 250,000 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)

Related link: http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/collections

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

DwC-Archive Access Point: http://midwestherbaria.org/portal/content/dwca/ILLS_DwC-A.zip

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

• 270,935 specimen records
• 34,051 (13%) georeferenced
• 55,772 (21%) with images (55,838 total images)
• 265,690 (98%) identified to species
• 481 families
• 2,863 genera
• 12,171 species
• 14,562 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)