University of Illinois - Vascular Plant Collection (ILL-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 1,400,000 specimens making this the second largest herbarium in Illinois and one of the 10th largest in the United States.

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

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 3ba37a0c-f730-499c-9c46-29e1645775a1

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Cite this collection:

University of Illinois - Vascular Plant Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: 3ba37a0c-f730-499c-9c46-29e1645775a1) accessed via the INHS Collections Data Portal, biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal, 2025-10-11).

Collection Statistics

97,519 specimen records
37,944 (39%) georeferenced
88,081 (90%) with images (94,226 total images)
43,750 (45%) identified to species
206 families
567 genera
2,065 species
2,220 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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