University of Illinois Herbarium (ILL)

Specialty: Illinois, midwestern U.S., Apiaceae, Asteraceae, Fabaceae: Mimosoideas, fossils of Pennsylvanian age coal balls, fungi (especially Meliolales: Ascomycetes and resupinate Basidiomycetes), 19th and early 20th century exsiccatae.

Date Founded: 1869.

Contacts: Andrew N. Miller, amiller7@illinois.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 December 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 58,214 specimen records
  • 1,463 (3%) georeferenced
  • 58,210 (100%) with images (58,507 total images)
  • 56,521 (97%) identified to species
  • 38 families
  • 193 genera
  • 2,003 species
  • 2,507 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Albizia (6)
  • Amorpha (228)
  • Amphicarpaea (90)
  • Apios (68)
  • Arachis (5)
  • Astragalus (86)
  • Baptisia (182)
  • Caragana (5)
  • Cassia (270)
  • Cercis (127)
  • Clitoria (10)
  • Coronilla (15)
  • Crotalaria (54)
  • Cyamopsis (1)
  • Cytisus (3)
  • Dalea (184)
  • Desmanthus (42)
  • Desmodium (712)
  • Galactia (9)
  • Gleditsia (116)
  • Glycine (20)
  • Glycyrrhiza (2)
  • Gymnocladus (72)
  • Laburnum (6)
  • Lathyrus (120)
  • Lens (2)
  • Lespedeza (380)
  • Lotus (21)
  • Lupinus (1126)
  • Medicago (115)
  • Melilotus (121)
  • Onobrychis (2)
  • Orbexilum (104)
  • Phaseolus (15)
  • Pisum (9)
  • Psoralidium (51)
  • Pueraria (6)
  • Robinia (84)
  • Schrankia (5)
  • Sesbania (1)
  • Strophostyles (102)