Illinois Natural History Survey - Plant Collection (ILLS-PLANT)

There are three plant herbaria housed at the Evers Laboratory: Illinois Natural History Survey Herbarium (ILLS), the University of Illinois Plant Biology Herbarium (ILL), and the University of Illinois Crop Evolution Laboratory Herbarium (CEL). Together, these collections contain over 1,000,000 specimens making this the second largest herbarium in Illinois and one of the 15th largest in the United States.

Contacts: Jamie Minnaert-Grote, Collections Manager, minnaert@illinois.edu

Homepage: http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/plants

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/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Cite this collection:

Illinois Natural History Survey - Plant Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: 3a962f1f-7122-432c-bb7d-b625050392e4) accessed via the INHS Collections Data Portal, biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal, 2025-10-11).

Collection Statistics

284,509 specimen records
77,470 (27%) georeferenced
63,530 (22%) with images (64,861 total images)
161,820 (57%) identified to species
571 families
2,470 genera
10,994 species
11,603 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Taxon Distribution

Martynia (1)
Proboscidea (15)
Sesamum (3)