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This page includes a variety of grasses and herbaceous plants from the pond, wetland, and prairies of the nature center. If the plant you are looking for is not here, use this Illinois Prairie Plant Guide to help identify it.
Click here if you are trying to identify trees of the forest or prairie.
Cattail
Typha latifolia
Purple Cone Flower
Echinacea paradoxa
Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
Bergamont
Monarda citriodora
Duck Weed
Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
Prairie Sundrop
Oenothera pilosella
Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
Yellow Cone Flower
Rudbeckia fulgida
Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
Ironweed
Vernonia noveboracensis
Great Bullrush
Scirpus validus
Morning Glory
Ipomoea sp.
Black Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
Orange Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
Orange Milkweed Pods
Asclepias tuberosa
Canadian Thistle
Cirsium arvense
False Indigo
Baptisia australis
Blue Chicory
Cichorium intybus
Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
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