Prospect Cemetery Prairie State Preserve
Ford County, Illinois
Plants and Wildlife
In the table below:
Click on the Plant, Bird, Reptile and Amphibian, Insect and Arachnid, and Mammal tabs at the bottom of the table to scroll through the lists.
These lists are based on species identified during site visits, Betz and Lamp (1989), Robertson (2004), and sightings submitted using the link in the sub-bullet point below. Submitted species are added to the table as time allows.
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Bloom periods are based on those provided by the Illinois Plants Database.
About this natural area:
Prospect cemetery is good quality prairie remnant in a pioneer cemetery. Open areas are inhabited by a multitude of native prairie plants.
Amenities
No other amenities provided at this location.
Literature and links:
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Betz, Robert F. and Lamp, Herbert F. 1989. Species Composition of Old Settler Silt-loam Prairies. Proceedings of the Eleventh North American Prairie Conference.
Borelli, Christopher. A little history on the prairie: Pioneer cemeteries show us what Illinois looked like before European settlers. Chicago Tribune.
Moorehouse and Hassen. 2004. Protecting Pioneer Cemetery Prairies: Balancing the Need to Preserve Cultural and Natural Heritage Values. Proceedings of the 19th North American Prairie Conference. Pgs 163-167.
Panzer, Ron. (2002). Compatibility of Prescribed Burning with the Conservation of Insects in Small, Isolated Prairie Reserves. Conservation Biology. 16. 1296 - 1307. 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.01077.x.
Robertson, Kenneth R. List Of Plant Species At Three Natural Blacksoil Prairie Remnants In Central Illinois. 2004. Loda, Prospect, Weston,
Spyreas*, G., Pearse*, I.S., Nickrent, D.L., Greenwood, N.M., Epstein, A., and Anders. P., (eds.) 2017. Illinois Plants: a web-based database for the flora of Illinois. https://www.inhs.illinois.edu/data/plantdb
Click here to view the Wild Ones webpage for this site. https://dupage.wildones.org/pioneer-cemetery-prairies-of-illinois/
Click here to view additional information from the book, “Prairie Directory of North America: The United States, Canada, and Mexico.”
Click here to listen to the In Defense of Plants Ep. 51podcast on cemetery prairies.