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CURATORS & STAFF
Dr. Geoffrey A. Levin, Botany Curator
Dr. Kenneth R. Robertson, Botany Curator Emeritus
Dr.
Loy R. Phillippe, ILLS Herbarium Manager
Janeth Moncada, Greenhouse Manager
Connie Carroll-Cunningham, Botanist
James Ellis, Botanist
Mary Ann Feist, Wetland Plant Ecologist
William
Handel, Botanist
Dr.
Steven Hill, Botanist
Dave Ketzner, Wetland Plant Ecologist
Jesse Kurylo, Wetland Soil Scientist
Rick Larimore, Wetland Plant Ecologist
Paul Marcum, Wetland Plant Ecologist
Dr. Jeff Matthews, Wetland Plant Ecologist
Dr. Brenda Molano-Flores, Botanist
Michael Murphy, Botanist
Dr. Lorin Nevling, Botanist
Dr. Allen Plocher, Forest Ecologist
Tim Rye, Botanist
Valerie Sivicek, Wetland Plant Ecologist
Greg Spyreas, Plant Ecologist
Dr.
John Taft, Plant Ecologist
Brian Wilm, Wetland Plant Ecologist
Jason Zylka, Wetland Plant Ecologist
ABOUT THE BOTANY COLLECTION
The Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) Herbarium Collection is composed of four distinct groups: vascular plants, fungi, algae and bryophytes totaling more than 295,000 accessioned specimens. The vascular plants, algae and bryophytes are mostly collected from the United States and predominantly from Illinois. The Fungi are mostly collected from throughout the United States and Canada with a large pathological collection from Illinois, a large aquatic collection from the southeastern United States, and a smaller collection from the neotropics.
The Herbarium Collection contains more than 917 types, 235 holotypes, 343 isotypes, and more than 300 other types. The holotypes are predominantly fungi (234 holotypes) with only a single holotype in the vascular plants. The isotypes and/or paratypes are also predominantly fungi with only six in the vascular plants. The INHS herbarium collections are the third largest in Illinois; the Field Museum (FM) in Chicago is the largest (2,650,000) and the University of Illinois in Urbana (UIUC) is the second largest (520,000). Nationally, out of more than 500 herbaria, the INHS herbarium ranks forty-seventh, the UIUC herbarium ranks twenty-first, and the FM herbarium ranks fourth. When INHS and UIUC combine herbaria, the combined collection will rank fifteenth nationally.
SPECIES LISTS, DATABASES & DISTRIBUTIONS
- Digital Flowers
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INHS Vascular Plant Database
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Gallery of Illinois Plants
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Illinois Woody Plants
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Native Prairie Plants A-H
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Native Prairie Plants I-Z
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Native Shrubs
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Native Trees
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Woody Plants Native or Naturalized in Illiniois A-M
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Woody Plants Native or Naturalized in Illiniois N-Z
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Vascular Plants at Site M, Cass County, Illinois
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Plant Species at Revis Hill Prairie Nature Preserve, Mason County, Illinois
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Plant Species at Three Natural Blacksoil Prairie Remnants in Central Illinois
OUTREACH
Please phone Mike Jeffords (217) 333-5986 for more information.