Lee County, IL Biodiversity (WIP)

Celebrating the surprising biodiversity of a county sometimes relegated to being thought of as just cornfields! Will be adding to this incrementally with confirmed observations of all forms of life in Lee County, using sources such as INHS, several guides, natural area catalogs, and of course ...more ↓

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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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Lee County, IL Biodiversity (WIP)

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