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 ↓

water horsetail 1
Equisetum fluviatile
rough horsetail 2
Equisetum hyemale
rattlesnake fern 3
Botrypus virginianus
cinnamon fern 4
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
bulblet fern 5
Cystopteris bulbifera
brittle bladderfern 6
Cystopteris fragilis
lowland brittle fern 7
Cystopteris protrusa
lady fern 8
Athyrium filix-femina
Christmas fern 9
Polystichum acrostichoides
spinulose wood fern 10
Dryopteris carthusiana
intermediate wood fern 11
Dryopteris intermedia
smooth cliffbrake 12
Pellaea glabella
northern maidenhair fern 13
Adiantum pedatum
rock polypody 14
Polypodium virginianum
ebony spleenwort 9
Asplenium platyneuron
walking fern 5
Asplenium rhizophyllum
blunt woodsia 15
Woodsia obtusa
ostrich fern 16
Matteuccia struthiopteris

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