Native Flowers of Chicago Wilderness

This guide was created to expand education towards flowers and pollinator species.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/tracking-pollinators

Edited by Renata Leite Pitman

Cornflower 1
Centaurea cyanus
Perennial Cornflower 2
Centaurea montana
bull thistle 3
Cirsium vulgare
Brown Knapweed 4
Centaurea jacea
purple star-thistle 5
Centaurea calcitrapa
lesser burdock 6
Arctium minus
creeping thistle 7
Cirsium arvense
field thistle 8
Cirsium discolor
greater burdock 9
Arctium lappa
Broad-winged Thistle 10
Carduus acanthoides
musk thistle 11
Carduus nutans
Safflower 12
Carthamus tinctorius
diffuse knapweed 13
Centaurea diffusa
spotted knapweed 14
Centaurea stoebe
wavyleaf thistle 15
Cirsium undulatum
Glandular Globe-thistle 16
Echinops sphaerocephalus
cotton thistle 17
Onopordum acanthium
spotted knapweed 18
Centaurea stoebe micranthos
Pitcher's thistle 19
Cirsium pitcheri
swamp thistle 20
Cirsium muticum
Woolly Burdock 21
Arctium tomentosum
black knapweed 22
Centaurea nigra
Tall Thistle 23
Cirsium altissimum
Sweet Sultan 24
Amberboa moschata
Giant Knapweed 25
Centaurea macrocephala
Tyrol knapweed 26
Centaurea nigrescens
Wig Knapweed 27
Centaurea phrygia
Flodman's thistle 28
Cirsium flodmanii
Hill's Thistle 29
Cirsium hillii
pasture thistle 30
Cirsium pumilum
Russian knapweed 31
Rhaponticum repens
Hill's Thistle 32
Cirsium pumilum hillii

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