Bunker Hill Forest Preserve Field Guide
Carex pensylvanica
Carex pensylvanica is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family commonly called Pennsylvania sedge.
fox sedge
Carex vulpinoidea is a species of sedge known by the common name fox sedge. It is native to North America, including most of Canada and the United States and part of Mexico, and it is known in Europe and New Zealand as an introduced species. The sedge lives in wet and seasonally wet habitat, and grows easily as a roadside weed. It produces clumps of stems up to a meter ...more ↓
Scirpus cyperinus
Scirpus cyperinus, or Woolgrass, is a herbaceous emergent that is native to the United States.
Indiangrass
Sorghastrum nutans, commonly known as Yellow Indiangrass, is a North American prairie grass found in the central and eastern United States and Canada, especially in the Great Plains. It is a perennial tussock grass, prominent in tallgrass prairie, along with big bluestem, little bluestem and switchgrass. It is the official state grass of both Oklahoma and South ...more ↓
prairie cordgrass
Spartina pectinata is a species of cordgrass known by the common names prairie cordgrass, freshwater cordgrass, tall marshgrass, and sloughgrass. It is native to much of North America, including central and eastern Canada and most of the contiguous United States except for the southwestern and southeastern regions. Its distribution extends into ...more ↓
northern dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis, the Prairie dropseed, is a species of prairie grass native to a widespread area of the US (from the Mid-West to the eastern seaboard (Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, and Virginia)) and Canada.
prairie brome
Bromus kalmii, Arctic brome and Prairie brome, is a species of brome grass. It is a native bunchgrass in the North-central and Northeastern United States, the Great Lakes region, and eastern Canada.
Canada wild rye
Elymus canadensis is a species of wild rye known by the common name Canada wild rye. This grass is native to much of North America, being most abundant in the central plains and Great Plains. It grows in a number of ecosystems, including riparian woodlands, many types of forest, lakeside sand dunes, and tallgrass prairie.
canadian bluegrass
Poa compressa (Canada bluegrass or flattened meadowgrass) is a perennial flattened meadow grass, similar to Common Meadow-grass, Poa pratensis. It is native to Europe but it can be found nearly worldwide as an introduced species. It grows in old wall tops, pavement cracks, dry stony grassland, and many types of wild habitat. It has a flattened stem, 23–30 cm ...more ↓
cultivated timothy
Timothy-grass (Phleum pratense), is an abundant perennial grass native to most of Europe except for the Mediterranean region. It grows to 50–150 cm tall, with leaves up to 45 cm long and 1 cm broad. The flowerhead is 7–15 cm long and 8–10 mm broad, with densely packed spikelets.
Big Bluestem
Andropogon gerardii, known also as Big bluestem, Turkey foot, Prairie tallgrass, or simply Tallgrass, is a tall grass (Poaceae family) native to much of the Great Plains and Prairie regions of central North America
