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 ↓

white grass 1
Leersia virginica
sideoats grama 2
Bouteloua curtipendula
stout wood reed 3
Cinna arundinacea
Slender Wedgescale 4
Sphenopholis intermedia
prairie wedge grass
Sphenopholis obtusata
Poverty oatgrass 5
Danthonia spicata
Dudley's Rush 6
Juncus dudleyi
Inland Rush
Juncus interior
Slender Path Rush 7
Juncus tenuis
Siberian squill 8
Othocallis siberica
common star-of-Bethlehem 9
Ornithogalum umbellatum
false Solomon's seal 10
Maianthemum racemosum
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley 11
Maianthemum stellatum
smooth Solomon's seal 12
Polygonatum biflorum
wild asparagus 13
Asparagus officinalis
northern blue flag 14
Iris versicolor
white blue-eyed grass 15
Sisyrinchium albidum
narrow-leaved blue-eyed grass 16
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
Wild Garlic 17
Allium canadense
nodding onion 18
Allium cernuum
small white leek 19
Allium tricoccum
narrowleaf wild leek 20
Allium tricoccum burdickii
orange day-lily 21
Hemerocallis fulva
white fawnlily 11
Erythronium albidum
yellow trout lily 22
Erythronium americanum
prairie trillium 23
Trillium recurvatum
roundleaf greenbrier 24
Smilax rotundifolia
bristly greenbrier 17
Smilax tamnoides
Upright Carrionflower 25
Smilax ecirrhata
largeflower bellwort 26
Uvularia grandiflora
American water plantain 27
Alisma subcordatum
Green Dragon 28
Arisaema dracontium
Jack-in-the-pulpit 29
Arisaema triphyllum
common duckweed 30
Lemna minor
eastern skunk cabbage 31
Symplocarpus foetidus
bluejacket 32
Tradescantia ohiensis
Virginia spiderwort 33
Tradescantia virginiana
Asiatic dayflower 34
Commelina communis

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