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
  • Agastache (153)
  • Ajuga (13)
  • Ballota (2)
  • Betonica (1)
  • Blephilia (273)
  • Calamintha (45)
  • Callicarpa (6)
  • Chaiturus (16)
  • Clerodendrum (2)
  • Clinopodium (12)
  • Collinsonia (53)
  • Condea (1)
  • Conradina (8)
  • Cunila (155)
  • Dicerandra (1)
  • Dracocephalum (38)
  • Elsholtzia (16)
  • Eremostachys (6)
  • Galeopsis (7)
  • Glechoma (125)
  • Glecoma (2)
  • Hedeoma (368)
  • Hyptis (29)
  • Hyssopus (1)
  • Isanthus (117)
  • Isodon (4)
  • Lagochilus (8)
  • Lallemantia (4)
  • Lamiastrum (3)
  • Lamium (183)
  • Lavandula (1)
  • Leonotis (7)
  • Leonurus (169)
  • Lespedeza (1)
  • Lophanthus (1)
  • Lycopus (705)
  • Macbridea (1)
  • Majorana (1)
  • Marrubium (36)
  • Meehania (1)
  • Melissa (7)
  • Mentha (260)
  • Moluccella (1)
  • Monarda (883)
  • Monardella (8)
  • Mosla (11)
  • Nepeta (178)
  • Ocimum (10)
  • Origanum (11)
  • Otostegia (2)
  • Perilla (91)
  • Perovskia (11)
  • Phlomis (14)
  • Phlomoides (25)
  • Physostegia (284)
  • Piloblephis (1)
  • Plectranthus (5)
  • Pogogyne (13)
  • Pogostemon (2)
  • Poliomintha (1)
  • Prunella (475)
  • Pycnanthemum (1398)
  • Rabdosia (17)
  • Rosmarinus (3)
  • Salazaria (3)
  • Salvia (239)
  • Satureja (7)
  • Scutellaria (1084)
  • Sideritis (4)
  • Stachyopsis (1)
  • Stachys (572)
  • Stenogyne (2)
  • Synandra (10)
  • Teucrium (563)
  • Thymus (15)
  • Trichostema (35)
  • Vitex (1)
  • Ziziphora (20)