Common Name               Scientific Name

Grasses:

Big bluestem                   Andropogon gerardii

Bottlebrush grass            Hystrix patula

Canada wild rye             Elymus canadensis

Indian grass                    Sorghastrum nutans

June grass                       Koeleria cristata

Little bluestem               Schizachyrium scoparium

Prairie cord grass           Spartina pectinata

Prairie dropseed             Sporobolus heterolepsis

Side oats grama             Bouteloua curtipendula

Sweet grass                   Hierochloe odoratum

Switch grass                  Panicum virgatum

Wildflowers: 

Bergemot                         Monarda fistulosa

Black-eyed susan             Rudbeckia hirta

Blue vervain                     Verbena hastata

Boneset                            Eupatorium perfoliatum

Butterfly weed                 Asclepias tuberosa

Cardinal flower                Lobelia cardinalis

Compass plant                 Silphium laciniatum

Culver's root                    Veronicastrum virginicum

Cup plant                         Silphium perfoliatum

False boneset                   Khunia eupatorioides

False dragonhead             Phytostegia virginiana

(Obedient plant)

Foxglove beard tongue    Penstemon digitalis

(Smooth penstemon)

Gray headed coneflower  Ratibida pinnata

Golden alexanders            Zizia aurea

Great blue lobelia             Lobelia siphilitica

Hairy beard tongue           Penstomon hirsutus

Hoary vervain                   Verbena stricta

Common Name             Scientific Name

Horsemint                      Monarda punctata

Ironweed                        Vernonia missurica

Jacob’s ladder                Polemonium reptans

Joe pye weed                  Eupatorium maculatum

Lead plant                      Amorpha canescens

New Jersey tea               Ceanothus americanus

Common Name               Scientific Name

Nodding wild onion       Allium cernuum

New England aster         Aster novae-angliae

Marsh blazing star          Liatris spicata

Prairie coreopsis             Coreopsis palmata

Prairie dock                    Silphium terebinthinacoum

Prairie smoke                 Geum triflorum

Pale purple coneflower  Echinacea pallida

Purple coneflower          Echinacea purpurea

Queen of the prairie        Fillipendula rubra

Rattlesnake master         Eryngium yuccifolium

Rosin weed                     Silphium integrifolium

Rough blazing star          Liatris aspera

Round leaf ragwort          Senecio obovatus

Sand tickseed                  Coreopsis lanceolata

(Lanceleaf coreopsis)

Showy coneflower          Rudbeckia fulgida

Showy goldenrod            Solidago speciosa

Sky blue aster                  Aster azureus

Spiderwort                       Tradescantia ohiensis

Stiff goldenrod                Solidago rigida

Swamp milkweed            Asclepias incarnata

(Red Milkweed)

Sweet black-eyed susan   Rudbeckia submentosa

Tall coreopsis                   Coreopsis tripteris

Thimbleweed                    Anemone cylindrical

Western sunflower            Helianthus occidentalis

White turtlehead                Chelone glabra

Wild blue iris                     Iris versicolor

Wild columbine                 Aquilegia canadensis

Wild lupine                        Lupinus perennis

Wild petunia                      Ruellia humills

Wild senna                        Cassia herbacarpa

Woodland sunflower         Helianthus divaricatus

Woodlands (Rescued):

Cinnamon fern                  Osmunda cinnamomea

Interrupted fern                 Osmunda claytoniana

Jack in the pulpit               Arisaema triphyllum

Lady fern                           Athyrium filix-femina

Maidenhair fern                 Adiantum pedatum

Ostrich Plume fern            Osmunda regalis

Wild geranium                  Geranium maculatum

Wild ginger                       Asarum canadensis

White trillium                   Trillium grandiflorum