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Prairie Plants

The following species, listed alphabetically by common name for your convenience, are among those found in Champaign County Forest Preserve District prairies and savannas. We have collected local Champaign County genotypes for our restoration efforts as a general rule. On occasion, we have planted selected species native to Champaign County, but not otherwise available, as provided by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources State Nursery.

For more information, visit these helpful websites:
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plant_index.htm
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/prairieplants.html
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/tallgrass.html

   

FORBSGRASSES
American Feverfew (Wild Quinine)
(Parthenium integrifolium)
Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
Pale Gentian
Brown (Black)-eyed Susan
(Rudbeckia hirta)
Blue-Eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium)
Blue Lobelia (Lobelia syphilatica)
Bush Clover (Lespedeza capitata)
Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Canadian Milk Vetch (Astragalus canadensis)
Indian Plantain (Cacalia tuberosa)
Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum)
Cream Gentian (Gentiana flavida)
Culver's Root (Veronicastrum virginicum)
Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum)
Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemilfolium)
Downy Gentian (Gentiana puberulenta)
False Sunflower
False Boneset (Brickellia eupatorioides)
Flat-topped Spurge (Euphorbia corollata)
Fringed Loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata)
Germander (Teucrium canadense)
Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea)
Swallowtail Butterfly on Thistle Grass-leaved Goldenrod (Solidago graminifolia)
Hairy Sunflower (Helianthus mollis)
Heath Aster (Aster ericoides)
Ironweed (Vernonia altissima)
Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)
Leadplant (Amorpha canescens)
Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum tenuifolium)
Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)
New England Aster (Aster novae-angliae)
New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus)
Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pallida)
Partridge Pea (Cassia fasciculata)
Pasture Rose (Rosa carolina)
Prairie Dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum)
Prairie Groundsel (Senecio pauperculus)
Prairie Willow (Salix humilis)
Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurpea)
Purple Prairie Clover (Petalostemum purpureum)
Blue Gentian Pussy-Toes (Antennaria neglecta)
Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
Stiff Goldenrod (Solidago rigida)
Rosinweed (Silphium integrifolum)
Rough Blazing-Star (Liatris aspera)
Sangamon Phlox (Phlox pilosa subs. sangamonensis)
Sawtooth Sunflower (Helianthus grosseserratus)
Shooting Star (Dodecatheon meadia)
Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis)
Stiff Tickseed (Coreopsis palmata)
Tall Cinquefoil (Potentilla arguta)
Tall Gayfeather (Liatris pycnostachya)
Tall Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis)
Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana)
Turk's Cap Lily (Lilium michangense)
Twayblade Orchid (Liparis lilifolia)
White False Indigo (Baptisia leucantha)
White Prairie Clover (Petalostemum candidum)
Whorled Milkweed (Asclepias verticillata)
Wild Beebalm, Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
Wild False Indigo (Baptisia leucophaea)
Wild Hyacinth (Camassia scilloides)
Wild Petunia (Ruellia humilis)
Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
Yellow Coneflower (Drooping, or Gray)
(Ratibida pinnata)
Big Bluestem Grass ( Andropogon gerardii)
Canada Wild Rye (Elymus canadensis)
Eastern Gama Grass (Tripsacum dactyloides)
Indian Grass (Sorghastrum nutans)
Little Bluestem Grass (Schizachyrium scoparium)
Needlegrass (Stipa spartea)
Prairie Cordgrass (Spartina pectinata)
Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Sideoats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Tall Dropseed (Sporobolus asper)