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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 ↓

bulblet fern 1
Cystopteris bulbifera
brittle bladderfern 2
Cystopteris fragilis
lowland brittle fern 3
Cystopteris protrusa
lady fern 4
Athyrium filix-femina
Christmas fern 5
Polystichum acrostichoides
spinulose wood fern 6
Dryopteris carthusiana
intermediate wood fern 7
Dryopteris intermedia
smooth cliffbrake 8
Pellaea glabella
northern maidenhair fern 9
Adiantum pedatum
rock polypody 10
Polypodium virginianum
ebony spleenwort 5
Asplenium platyneuron
walking fern 1
Asplenium rhizophyllum
blunt woodsia 11
Woodsia obtusa
ostrich fern 12
Matteuccia struthiopteris

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