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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.
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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, 2025-10-23).

Collection Statistics

  • 284,509 specimen records
  • 77,470 (27%) georeferenced
  • 63,530 (22%) with media (64,861 total media)
  • 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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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Martynia (1)
  • Proboscidea (15)
  • Sesamum (3)