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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cinnamon fern ¹
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum

bulblet fern ²
Cystopteris bulbifera

brittle bladderfern ³
Cystopteris fragilis

lowland brittle fern ⁴
Cystopteris protrusa

lady fern ⁵
Athyrium filix-femina

Christmas fern ⁶
Polystichum acrostichoides

spinulose wood fern ⁷
Dryopteris carthusiana

intermediate wood fern ⁸
Dryopteris intermedia

smooth cliffbrake ⁹
Pellaea glabella

northern maidenhair fern ¹⁰
Adiantum pedatum

rock polypody ¹¹
Polypodium virginianum

ebony spleenwort ⁶
Asplenium platyneuron

walking fern ²
Asplenium rhizophyllum

blunt woodsia ¹²
Woodsia obtusa

ostrich fern ¹³
Matteuccia struthiopteris

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Lee County, IL Biodiversity (WIP)

cinnamon fern 1 Osmundastrum cinnamomeum

bulblet fern 2 Cystopteris bulbifera

brittle bladderfern 3 Cystopteris fragilis

lowland brittle fern 4 Cystopteris protrusa

lady fern 5 Athyrium filix-femina

Christmas fern 6 Polystichum acrostichoides

spinulose wood fern 7 Dryopteris carthusiana

intermediate wood fern 8 Dryopteris intermedia

smooth cliffbrake 9 Pellaea glabella

northern maidenhair fern 10 Adiantum pedatum

rock polypody 11 Polypodium virginianum

ebony spleenwort 6 Asplenium platyneuron

walking fern 2 Asplenium rhizophyllum

blunt woodsia 12 Woodsia obtusa

ostrich fern 13 Matteuccia struthiopteris