Plant Listing
For simplicity, all plants are organized alphabetically by botanical name. Check out How to ID Sedges if this is new to you. You’ll find this info to make sedge ID much easier! Each of these plants has a specific sun or shade requirement as well as soil moisture requirement. Our land has full sun prairies that grade from dry to wet mesic, savanna areas, and woodlands.
| Achillea millefolium | Yarrow |
| Actaea rubra | Red baneberry |
| Adiantum pedatum | Maidenshair fern |
| Agastache foeniculum | Anise hyssop |
| Agastache nepetoides | Yellow hyssop |
| Agastache scrophulariaefolia | Purple hyssop |
| Agrimonia gryposepala | Tall agrimony |
| Allium cernuum | Nodding wild onion |
| Allium tricoccum | Wild Leek |
| Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Common ragweed |
| Ambrosia trifida | Giant ragweed |
| Amorpha canescens | Leadplant |
| Amphicarpaea bracteata | American hog peanut |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem |
| Anemone acutiloba | Sharp-lobed hepatica |
| Anemone americana | Round-lobed hepatica |
| Anemone cylindrica | Long-headed thimbleweed |
| Anemone patens | American Pasqueflower |
| Anemone quinquefolia | Wood anemone |
| Anemone virginiana | Tall thimbleweed |
| Thalictrum thalictroides | Rue Anemone |
| Antennaria neglecta | Pussytoes |
| Apocynum androsaemifolium | Spreading dogbane |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Columbine |
| Arabis glabra | Tower mustard |
| Aralia nudicaulis | Wild sarsparilla |
| Aralia racemosa | American Spikenard |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack in the pulpit |
| Arnoglossum atriplicifolium | Pale Indian plantain |
| Arnoglossum plantagineum | Prairie Indian plantain |
| Artemisia ludoviciana | Prairie Sage |
| Asarum canadense | Wild ginger |
| Asclepias exaltata | Poke milkweed |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp milkweed |
| Asclepias purpurascens | Purple milkweed |
| Asclepias sullivantii | Prairie milkweed |
| Asclepias syriaca | Common milkweed |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterfly milkweed |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled milkweed |
| Asclepias viridiflora | Short green milkweed |
| Aster cordifolium | Wood aster |
| Aster ericoides | Heath aster |
| Aster laevis | Smooth blue aster |
| Aster lateriflorum | Calico aster |
| Aster novae-angliae | New England aster |
| Aster oblongifolium | Aromatic aster |
| Aster ontarionis | Bottomland aster |
| Aster oolentangiensis | Sky blue aster |
| Aster pilosum | Frost aster |
| Aster puniceus | Purple stemmed aster |
| Aster sagittifolius | Arrow leaf aster |
| Aster sericeus | Silky aster |
| Aster shortii | Short’s aster |
| Astragalus canadensis | Canadian milk vetch |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Northern Lady Fern |
| Baptisia alba | White indigo |
| Baptisia bracteata | Cream false indigo |
| Bidens vulgata | Bidens |
| Boltonia asteroides | False aster |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Side oats grama |
| Brickellia eupatorioides | Kuhnia |
| Bromus ciliatus | Woodland brome |
| Bromus kalmii | Kalm’s brome |
| Camassia scilloides | Wild hyacinth |
| Campanula americana | Tall bellflower |
| Carex blanda | Common woodland sedge |
| Carex molesta | Troublesome sedge |
| Carex pennsylvanica | Pennsylvania sedge |
| Carex rosea | Rosy sedge |
| Caulophyllum thalictroides | Blue cohosh |
| Ceoanthus americanus | New Jersey Tea |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge pea |
| Chamaesyce glyptosperma | Ridge seeded spurge |
| Chamaesyce maculata | Milk purslane |
| Chelone glabra | Turtlehead |
| Circaea canadensis | Enchanter’s nightshade |
| Cirsium altissimum | Wood thistle |
| Cirsium discolor | Old field thistle |
| Cirsium hillii | Hill’s thistle |
| Cirsium muticum | Swamp thistle |
| Claytonia virginica | Spring beauty |
| Clematis virginiana | Virgin’s bower |
| Coreopsis palmata | Prairie tickseed |
| Coreopsis tripteris | Tall coreopsis |
| Cryptotaenia canadensis | Honewort |
| Cypripedium parviflorum | Yellow lady’s slipper |
| Dalea candida | White prairie clover |
| Dalea purpurea | Purple prairie clover |
| Desmodium canadense | Showy tick trefoil |
| Desmodium glutinosum | Woodland tick trefoil |
| Desmodium illinoense | Illinois tick trefoil |
| Dioscorea villosa | Wild yam |
| Dodecatheon meadia | Shooting star |
| Echinacea pallida | Pale purple coneflower |
| Echinocystis lobata | Wild cucumber |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye |
| Elymus hystrix | Bottlebrush grass |
| Elymus riparius | Woodland rye |
| Elymus villosus | Silky wild rye |
| Elymus virginicus | Virginia wild rye |
| Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple love grass |
| Erechtites hieracifolia | American burnweed |
| Erigeron annuus | Annual fleabane |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake master |
| Eupatorium altissimum | Tall boneset |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common boneset |
| Eupatorium rugosum | White snakeroot |
| Eupatorium sessifolia | Upland boneset |
| Euphorbia corollata | Flowering spurge |
| Eutrochium maculatum | Spotted Joe pye |
| Eutrochium purpureum | Woodland Joe Pye |
| Galearis spectabilis | Showy orchis |
| Galium aparine | Annual bedstraw |
| Galium concinnum | Pretty bedstraw |
| Galium triflorum | Sweet-scented bedstraw |
| Gaura biennis | Gaura |
| Gentiana alba | Cream gentian |
| Gentiana andrewsii | Bottle gentian |
| Gentianella quinuefolia | Stiff gentian |
| Geranium maculatum | Wild geranium |
| Geum canadense | White avens |
| Geum laciniatum | Rough avens |
| Geum triflorum | Prairie smoke |
| Gymnocarpium dryopteris | Common oak fern |
| Hackelia virginiana | Beggar’s lice |
| Helenium autumnale | Sneezeweed |
| Helianthus giganteus | Giant sunflower |
| Helianthus pauciflorus | Showy sunflower |
| Helianthus stromosus | Woodland sunflower |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Ox-eye sunflower |
| Heuchera richardsonii | Alumroot |
| Hypericum punctatum | Spotted St John’s wort |
| Hypericum pyramidatum | Great St. Johns wort |
| Hyposix hirsuta | Yellow Star grass |
| Juncus tenuis | Poverty rush |
| Koeleria macrantha | June grass |
| Kuhnia eupatorioides | False boneset |
| Lespedeza capitata | Round headed bush clover |
| Liatris aspera | Rough blazingstar |
| Liatris ligulistylis | Showy blazingstar |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie blazingstar |
| Lilium michiganense | Turk’s cap lily |
| Linum sulcatum | Grooved yellow flax |
| Lithospermum canescens | Hoary puccoon |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower |
| Lobelia inflata | Indian tobacco |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great blue lobelia |
| Lobelia spicata | Pale-spiked lobelia |
| Lupinus perennis | Wild lupine |
| Lysimachia ciliata | Fringed Loosestrife |
| Lysimachia quadriflora | Narrow leaved loosestrife |
| Maianthemum racemosa | False Solomon’s seal |
| Maianthemum stellata | Starry Solomon’s Plume |
| Maianthemum stellata | Wild Lily-of-the-Valley |
| Monarda fistulosa | Monarda |
| Monarda punctata | Mint, Dotted |
| Monotropa uniflora | Indian pipe |
| Muhlenbergia schreberi | Nimble-will |
| Napaea dioica | Glade mallow |
| Oenothera biennis | Evening primrose |
| Onosmodium molle | Marbleseed |
| Osmorhiza claytonii | Sweet Cicely, Hairy |
| Oxalis stricta | Common yellow wood sorrel |
| Oxalis violaceae | Violet wood sorrel |
| Packera paupercula | Prairie ragwort |
| Packera platensis | Prairie groundsel |
| Panicum capillare | Common witch grass |
| Parthenium integrifolium | Quinine |
| Pedicularis canadensis | Wood betony |
| Pedicularis lanceolata | Swamp lousewort |
| Penstemon digitalis | Penstemon |
| Penstemon grandiflorus | Large flowered penstemon |
| Phlox pilosa | Phlox |
| Phyrma leptostachya | Lopseed |
| Physalis longifolia | Smooth Ground cherry |
| Pilea pumila | Canada clearweed |
| Podophyllum peltatum | May apple |
| Polemonium reptans | St. Jacob’s Ladder |
| Polygonam achoreum | Leathery knotweed |
| Polygonatum biflorum | Smooth Solomon’s seal |
| Potentilla arguta | Tall cinquefoil |
| Potentilla norvegica | Rough Cinquefoil |
| Prenanthes alba | Lion’s foot |
| Prunella vulgaris | Heal-All |
| Pycanthemum virginianum | Mountain mint |
| Ranunculus fascicularis | Early buttercup |
| Ranunculus recurvatus | Hooked buttercup |
| Ratibida pinnata | Yellow coneflower |
| Rosa carolina | Pasture Rose |
| Rosa sp | Rose |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black eye susan |
| Rudbeckia triloba | Brown-eyed susan |
| Ruellia humilis | Hairy wild petunia |
| Sanguinaria canadensis | Bloodroot |
| Sanicula odorata | Clustered snakeroot |
| Sanicula marilandica | Black snakeroot |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little bluestem |
| Scirpus cyperinus | Woolgrass |
| Scrophularia marilandica | Figwort |
| Senna hebecarpa | Wild senna |
| Silene regia | Royal catchfly |
| Silene stellata | Starry campion |
| Silphium integrifolium | Rosinweed |
| Silphium lacinatum | Compass plant |
| Silphium perfoliatum | Cup plant |
| Silphium terebinthinaceum | Prairie dock |
| Sisyrinchium campestre | Blue-eyed grass |
| Smilax herbacea | Common Carrion Flower |
| Solidago canadensis | Canada goldenrod |
| Solidago flexicaulis | Zigzag goldenrod |
| Solidago gigantea | Giant goldenrod |
| Solidago missouriensis | Missouri goldenrod |
| Solidago nemoralis | Gray goldenrod |
| Solidago ohiensis | Ohio goldenrod |
| Solidago rigida | Stiff goldenrod |
| Solidago speciosa | Showy goldenrod |
| Solidago ulmifolia | Elm leaf goldenrod |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indian Grass |
| Spiranthes ovalis | October Lady’s tresses |
| Sporobolus compositus | Rough dropseed |
| Sporobolus heterolepis | Prairie dropseed |
| Taenidia integerrima | Yellow pimpernel |
| Thalictrum dasycarpum | Purple meadow-rue |
| Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio spiderwort |
| Trillium grandiflorum | Large flowered trillium |
| Triosteum aurantiacum | Tinker’s weed |
| Triosteum perfoliatum | Tinker’s weed |
| Urtica dioica | Stinging nettle |
| Uvularia grandiflora | Bellwort |
| Verbena hastata | Blue vervain |
| Verbena stricta | Hoary vervain |
| Vernonia fasciculata | Ironweed |
| Veronicastrum virginicum | Culver’s root |
| Viola pedata | Birds foot violet |
| Viola pedatifida | Prairie violet |
| Viola sororia | Wood violet |
| Zigadenus elegans | Death Camas |
| Zizia aurea | Golden alexander |