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 ↓

Smooth Meadow-grass 1
Poa pratensis
smooth brome 2
Bromus inermis
Hairy Woodland Brome
Bromus pubescens
Canada wild rye 3
Elymus canadensis
bottlebrush grass 4
Elymus hystrix
Quack Grass
Elymus repens
silky wild rye 5
Elymus villosus
Virginia wildrye 6
Elymus virginicus
porcupine needlegrass 7
Hesperostipa spartea
cock's-foot 8
Dactylis glomerata
black-fruit mountain-ricegrass 9
Patis racemosa
tiny lovegrass 10
Eragrostis capillaris
Nodding Fescue 11
Festuca subverticillata
reed canary grass 12
Phalaris arundinacea
Timothy 13
Phleum pratense
Wirestem Muhly 14
Muhlenbergia frondosa
Cliff Muhly 15
Muhlenbergia sobolifera
Fowl Mannagrass 16
Glyceria striata
Catchfly grass 17
Leersia lenticularis
rice cutgrass 18
Leersia oryzoides
white grass 19
Leersia virginica
sideoats grama 3
Bouteloua curtipendula
stout wood reed 20
Cinna arundinacea
Slender Wedgescale 21
Sphenopholis intermedia
prairie wedge grass
Sphenopholis obtusata
Poverty oatgrass 11
Danthonia spicata
Dudley's Rush 22
Juncus dudleyi
Inland Rush
Juncus interior
Slender Path Rush 23
Juncus tenuis
Siberian squill 24
Othocallis siberica
common star-of-Bethlehem 25
Ornithogalum umbellatum
false Solomon's seal 26
Maianthemum racemosum
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley 27
Maianthemum stellatum
smooth Solomon's seal 28
Polygonatum biflorum
wild asparagus 29
Asparagus officinalis
northern blue flag 30
Iris versicolor
white blue-eyed grass 31
Sisyrinchium albidum
narrow-leaved blue-eyed grass 32
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
Wild Garlic 33
Allium canadense
nodding onion 34
Allium cernuum
small white leek 35
Allium tricoccum
narrowleaf wild leek 36
Allium tricoccum burdickii
orange day-lily 37
Hemerocallis fulva
white fawnlily 27
Erythronium albidum
yellow trout lily 38
Erythronium americanum
prairie trillium 39
Trillium recurvatum
roundleaf greenbrier 40
Smilax rotundifolia
bristly greenbrier 33
Smilax tamnoides
Upright Carrionflower 41
Smilax ecirrhata
largeflower bellwort 42
Uvularia grandiflora
American water plantain 43
Alisma subcordatum
Green Dragon 44
Arisaema dracontium
Jack-in-the-pulpit 16
Arisaema triphyllum
common duckweed 45
Lemna minor
eastern skunk cabbage 46
Symplocarpus foetidus
bluejacket 47
Tradescantia ohiensis
Virginia spiderwort 48
Tradescantia virginiana
Asiatic dayflower 49
Commelina communis
rock spikemoss 50
Selaginella rupestris

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