Flora of FCSNA

The Franklin Creek State Natural Area covers 922 acres in Lee County, Illinois. There are a wide variety of habitats here, ranging from woodlands to riparian forests, prairie to sandstone cliffs, wetlands to savanna. As such, there is a rich variety of plant life to be found. This guide will be ...more ↓

mullein foxglove 1
Dasistoma macrophylla
white ash 2
Fraxinus americana
black ash 3
Fraxinus nigra
green ash 4
Fraxinus pennsylvanica
blue ash 5
Fraxinus quadrangulata
wild bergamot 6
Monarda fistulosa
American cornmint 7
Mentha canadensis
Virginia mountain mint 8
Pycnanthemum virginianum
Catnip 1
Nepeta cataria
Glecoma hederacea 9
Glechoma hederacea
common selfheal 10
Prunella vulgaris
side-flowering skullcap 11
Scutellaria lateriflora
Heart-leaved Skullcap
Scutellaria ovata
small skullcap 12
Scutellaria parvula
Scutellaria elliptica hirsuta 13
common motherwort 14
Leonurus cardiaca
obedient plant 15
Physostegia virginiana
American germander 16
Teucrium canadense
blue vervain 17
Verbena hastata
hoary vervain 18
Verbena stricta
white vervain 19
Verbena urticifolia
hairy ruellia 20
Ruellia humilis
Culver's root 21
Veronicastrum virginicum
blue water-speedwell 22
Veronica anagallis-aquatica
bracted plantain 23
Plantago aristata
ribwort plantain 24
Plantago lanceolata
greater plantain 25
Plantago major
woolly plantain 26
Plantago patagonica
American Plantain 27
Plantago rugelii
Dwarf Plantain 28
Plantago virginica
foxglove beardtongue 29
Penstemon digitalis
hairy beardtongue 30
Penstemon hirsutus
American lopseed 31
Phryma leptostachya
Dutchman's breeches 32
Dicentra cucullaria
bloodroot 33
Sanguinaria canadensis
red columbine 34
Aquilegia canadensis
purple meadow-rue 35
Thalictrum dasycarpum
Waxy Meadow-rue 36
Thalictrum revolutum
Anemonella thalictroides 34
Thalictrum thalictroides
false rue anemone 37
Enemion biternatum
small-flowered buttercup 38
Ranunculus abortivus
Early Buttercup 39
Ranunculus fascicularis
bristly buttercup 40
Ranunculus hispidus
Hooked buttercup 41
Ranunculus recurvatus
cursed crowfoot 42
Ranunculus sceleratus
wood anemone
Anemone quinquefolia
sharp-lobed hepatica 1
Hepatica acutiloba
round-lobed hepatica 43
Hepatica americana
meadow anemone 44
Anemonastrum canadense
Cylindrical Thimbleweed 1
Anemone cylindrica
tall thimbleweed 45
Anemone virginiana
white baneberry 46
Actaea pachypoda
red baneberry 47
Actaea rubra
blue cohosh 48
Caulophyllum thalictroides
Japanese barberry 49
Berberis thunbergii
mayapple 50
Podophyllum peltatum
moonseed 51
Menispermum canadense
clammy groundcherry 34
Physalis heterophylla
long-leaved groundcherry 12
Physalis longifolia
Carolina horsenettle 52
Solanum carolinense
bittersweet nightshade 53
Solanum dulcamara
wild potato vine 54
Ipomoea pandurata
hedge bindweed 55
Calystegia sepium
Scaldweed 56
Cuscuta gronovii
Orange-fruited Horse Gentian 57
Triosteum aurantiacum
Perfoliate Tinker's-weed 58
Triosteum perfoliatum
coralberry 59
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
Japanese honeysuckle 60
Lonicera japonica
Amur honeysuckle 61
Lonicera maackii
Grape Honeysuckle 62
Lonicera reticulata
Lonicera xbella 63
Fuller's teasel 64
Dipsacus fullonum
American black elderberry 65
Sambucus canadensis
southern arrowwood 66
Viburnum dentatum
nannyberry 67
Viburnum lentago
guelder-rose 68
Viburnum opulus
Blackhaw 50
Viburnum prunifolium
downy arrowwood 69
Viburnum rafinesquianum
Black Snakeroot 40
Sanicula canadensis
Maryland Black-snakeroot 69
Sanicula marilandica
clustered black snakeroot 70
Sanicula odorata
rattlesnake master 71
Eryngium yuccifolium
honewort 40
Cryptotaenia canadensis
water hemlock 16
Cicuta maculata
hairy sweet cicely 72
Osmorhiza claytonii
aniseroot 40
Osmorhiza longistylis
wild carrot 73
Daucus carota
purple-stemmed angelica 74
Angelica atropurpurea
golden Alexander 75
Zizia aurea
poison hemlock 76
Conium maculatum
wild parsnip 77
Pastinaca sativa
American spikenard 78
Aralia racemosa
velvetleaf 79
Abutilon theophrasti
basswood 13
Tilia americana
eastern leatherwood 80
Dirca palustris
Northern Comandra
Geocaulon lividum
common pawpaw 81
Asimina triloba
eastern cottonwood 82
Populus deltoides
black willow 40
Salix nigra
downy yellow violet 83
Viola pubescens

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