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Use the options below to search for information about native Illinois plants that can be used in landscaping to benefit wildlife. You must select a garden type for your search ("All" is an option). You can choose to add any or all of the other options when searching, too, but the more options you select, the smaller your chance of finding a match. If your query does not produce any results, try searching again using fewer categories.
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Aquatic
Butterfly
Container
Hummingbird
Pollinator
Prairie
Rain
Woodland
Common Name:
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alumroot
american bellflower
american gromwell
arrow arum
azure aster
big bluestem
black haw
black-eyed susan
blazing-star
bloodroot
blue cohosh
blue vervain
bluebells
blue-eyed mary
brown-eyed susan
butterfly-weed
buttonbush
calico aster
Canada milk vetch
cardinal-flower
Carolina rose
celandine poppy
Christmas fern
closed gentian
columbine
common boneset
common milkweed
common mountain mint
common phlox
common polypody
compass-plant
cream wild indigo
Culver's-root
cup-plant
doll's-eyes
downy phlox
downy sunflower
drooping or yellow coneflower
dutchman's breeches
dwarf larkspur
early meadow rue
false dragonhead
false rue anemone
false solomon’s-seal
field goldenrod
flat-topped aster
flowering dogwood
foxglove beardstongue
golden alexanders
goldenrod
goldenseal
gray dogwood
great angelica
great blue lobelia
green dragon
hairy white aster
hazelnut
heath aster
hoary puccoon
hoary vervain
horsemint
horsetail milkweed
Illinois mimosa
Indian grass
inland oats
jack-in-the-pulpit
jacob's-ladder
Jerusalem artichoke
June grass
large white trillium
large yellow lady's-slipper orchid
late boneset
leadplant
little bluestem
lupine
marsh blazing-star
marsh buttercup
marsh marigold
mayapple
meadow anemone
milkweeds
missouri ironweed
new England aster
new jersey tea
nodding onion
nodding wild rye
ox-eye sunflower
pale coneflower
partridge pea
persimmon
pickerelweed
pin oak
poke milkweed
prairie avens
prairie blazing-star
prairie cinquefoil
prairie coreopsis
prairie dock
prairie dropseed
prairie Indian plantain
prairie milkweed
purple coneflower
purple joe-pye-weed
purple milkweed
purple prairie clover
purple sneezeweed
purple spring cress
purple trillium
pussy-toes
rattlesnake master
red cedar
redbud
red-osier dogwood
river birch
rosinweed
rough blazing-star
round-headed bush clover
round-lobed hepatica
sand coreopsis
sassafras
sawtooth sunflower
seneca snakeroot
serviceberry
sessile monkey-flower
sharp-lobed hepatica
shooting-star
showy goldenrod
showy tick trefoil
side-oats grama
silky aster
skunk cabbage
smooth aster
smooth sumac
solomon’s-seal
spicebush
spiderwort
spiked lobelia
spotted joe-pye-weed
spotted touch-me-not
spring beauty
spring cress
starry solomon’s-seal
stiff aster
stiff goldenrod
sumac
swamp marigold
swamp milkweed
swamp rose mallow
swamp white oak
sweet black-eyed susan
switch grass
tall boneset
three-leaved stonecrop
toothwort
tulip poplar
twayblade orchid
twin-leaf
Virginia waterleaf
wahoo
water lotus
western sunflower
white prairie clover
white trout lily
white turtlehead
white wild indigo
wild bergamot
wild blue iris
wild geranium
wild ginger
wild hyacinth
wild petunia
wild quinine
wild senna
witch hazel
yellow bellwort
yellow dog-tooth violet
yellow gentian
yellow pond lily
yellow puccoon
yellow sneezeweed
Scientific Name:
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actaea pachypoda
allium cernuum
amelanchier arborea
amorpha canescens
andrpogon gerardii
anemone canadensis
angelica atropurpurea
antennaria plantaginifolia
aquilegia canadensis
arisaema dracontium
arisaema triphyllum
arnoglossum plantagineum
asarum canadense
asclepias exaltata
asclepias incarnata
asclepias purpurascens
asclepias spp.
asclepias sullivantii
asclepias syriaca
asclepias tuberosa
asclepias verticillata
astragalus canadensis
Baptisia alba
Baptisia bracteata
Betula nigra
Bidens aristosa
Bouteloua curtipendula
Caltha palustris
Camassia scilloides
Campanulastrum americanum
Cardamine bulbosa
Cardamine douglassii
Caulophyllum thalictroides
Ceanothus americanus
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Cercis canadensis
Chamaechrista fasciculata
Chasmanthium latifolium
Chelone glabra
Claytonia virginica
Collinsia verna
Coreopsis lanceolata
Coreopsis palmata
Cornus florida
Cornus racemosa
Cornus sericea
Corylus americana
Cypripedium parviflorum
dalea candida
dalea purpurea
delphinium tricorne
dentaria laciniata
desmanthus illinoensis
desmodium canadense
dicentra cucullaria
diospyros virginiana
dodecatheon meadia
doellingeria umbellata
drymocallis arguta
Echinacea pallida
Echinacea purpurea
Elymus canadensis
Enemion biternatum
Eryngium yuccifolium
Erythronium albidum
Erythronium americanum
Euonymus atropurpureus
Eupatorium altissimum
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Eupatorium serotinum
Eutrochium maculatum
Eutrochium purpureum
Gentiana alba
Gentiana andrewsii
Geranium maculatum
Geum triflorum
Hamamelis virginiana
Helenium autumnale
Helenuim flexuosum
Helianthus grosseserratus
Helianthus mollis
Helianthus occidentalis
Helianthus tuberosus
Heliopsis helianthoides
Hepatica acutiloba
Hepatica americana
Heuchera americana
Hibiscus moscheutos
Hydrastis canadensis
Hydrophyllum virginianum
Impatiens capensis
Iris shrevei
jeffersonia diphylla
juniperus virginiana
Koeleria macrantha
Lespedeza capitata
Liatris aspera
Liatris pycnostachya
Liatris spicata
Lindera benzoin
Liparis liliifolia
Liriodendron tulipifera
Lithospermum canescens
Lithospermum incisum
Lithospermum latifolium
Lobelia cardinalis
Lobelia siphilitica
Lobelia spicata
Lupinus perennis
mertensia virginica
mimulus ringens
monarda fistulosa
monarda punctata
nelumbo lutea
nuphar advena
Oligoneuron album
oligoneuron rigidum
Panicum virgatum
Parthenium integrifolium
Peltandra virginica
Penstemon digitalis
Phlox divaricata
Phlox pilosa
Physostegia virginiana
Podophyllum peltatum
Polemonium reptans
Polygala senega
Polygonatum commutatum
Polypodium virginianum
Polystichum acrostichoides
Pontederia cordata
Pycnanthemum virginianum
Quercus bicolor
Quercus palustris
Ranunculus septentrionalis
Ratibida pinnata
Rhus glabra
Rhus sp.
Rosa carolina
Rudbeckia hirta
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
Rudbeckia triloba
Ruellia humilis
sanguinaria canadensis
sassafras albidum
schizachyrium scoparium
Sedum ternatum
senna hebecarpa
silphium integrifolium
silphium laciniatum
silphium perfoliatum
silphium terebinthinaceum
smilacina racemosa
smilacina stellata
solidago nemoralis
solidago speciosa
solidago spp.
sorghastrum nutans
sporobolus heterolepis
stylophorum diphyllum
symphyotrichum ericoides
symphyotrichum laeve
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum
symphyotrichum novae-angliae
symphyotrichum oolentangiense
Symphyotrichum pilosum
symphyotrichum sericeum
symplocarpus foetidus
Thalictrum dioicum
Tradescantia sp.
Trillium grandiflorum
Trillium recurvatum
Uvularia grandiflora
Verbena hastata
Verbena stricta
Vernonia sp.
Veronicastrum virginicum
Viburnum prunifolium
Zizia aurea
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