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Plants of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Grounds, Chicago, Illinois

Take a walk through the grounds at the Academy's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL. This plant guide, compiled by our horticulturists, illustrates the variety of species present in the prairie ecosystems we have created.

Velvetleaf 1
Abutilon theophrasti
Common Copperleaf 2
Acalypha rhomboidea
Tree of Heaven 3
Ailanthus altissima
Common Milkweed 4
Asclepias syriaca
White False Indigo 5
Baptisia alba macrophylla
shepherd's purse 6
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Gray's sedge 7
Carex grayi
Brickellia eupatorioides 8
smooth brome 9
Bromus inermis
American Bittersweet 10
Celastrus scandens
Spotted Spurge 11
Euphorbia maculata
field thistle 12
Cirsium arvense
autumn clematis 13
Clematis terniflora
Bull Thistle 14
Cirsium vulgare
downy hawthorn 15
Crataegus mollis
Hawthorns 16
Crataegus
Echinochloa crusgalli 17
Ground Ivy 18
Glechoma hederacea
Black Bindweed 19
Fallopia convolvulus
Illinois bundleflower 20
Desmanthus illinoensis
Sawtooth sunflower 21
Helianthus grosseserratus
Flax-leaved aster 22
Ionactis linariifolia
eastern red cedar 23
Juniperus virginiana
Koeleria micranthera
Slender Blazingstar 24
Liatris cylindracea
Henbit Deadnettle 16
Lamium amplexicaule
black medick 25
Medicago lupulina
Common Evening-Primrose 26
Oenothera biennis
Virginia mountain mint 10
Pycnanthemum virginianum
Redshank 27
Persicaria maculosa
Smooth Witchgrass 19
Panicum dichotomiflorum
Swamp White Oak 28
Quercus bicolor
burr oak 29
Quercus macrocarpa
kidneyleaf buttercup
Ranunculus arbortivus
Black Oak 30
Quercus velutina
Glossy Buckthorn 27
Frangula alnus
Rudbeckia subtomentosa 31
little bluestem 32
Schizachyrium scoparium
evening lychnis 33
Silene latifolia alba
Compass Plant 26
Silphium laciniatum
soft-stem bulrush 7
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
Field Sowthistle 34
Sonchus arvensis uliginosus
Indiangrass 29
Sorghastrum nutans
Slender Wedgescale 35
Sphenopholis intermedia
Meadowsweet 36
Spiraea alba
azure aster 21
Symphyotrichum oolentangiense
northern dropseed 37
Sporobolus heterolepis
smooth aster 8
Symphyotrichum laeve
New England aster 38
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
oldfield aster 24
Symphyotrichum pilosum
heart-leaved aster 39
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
Panicled Aster
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum lanceolatum
Bluejacket 24
Tradescantia ohiensis
large-leaf aster 40
Eurybia macrophylla
purpletop tridens 41
Tridens flavus
blue vervain 15
Verbena hastata
Eastern White Pine 42
Pinus strobus
round-headed bush clover 43
Lespedeza capitata
Wild Lupine 24
Lupinus perennis
honey locust 44
Gleditsia triacanthos
Eastern Redbud 45
Cercis canadensis
Canadian milkvetch 29
Astragalus canadensis
Red Clover 14
Trifolium pratense
white clover 27
Trifolium repens
Black Locust 46
Robinia pseudoacacia
Melilotus alba 25
Melilotus albus
Yellow Sweet Clover 25
Melilotus officinalis
leadplant 26
Amorpha canescens
White Prairie-clover 47
Dalea candida
Purple Prairie Clover 48
Dalea purpurea
Aronia prunifolia
American plum 49
Prunus americana
European bird cherry 50
Prunus padus
Fragaria vesca vesca
prairie cinquefoil
Potentilla arguta
Duchesnea indica 51
Potentilla indica
Rough cinquefoil 27
Potentilla norvegica
Carolina rose 52
Rosa carolina
White avens 15
Geum canadense
Wood avens 18
Geum urbanum
queen of the prairie 40
Filipendula rubra
prairie alumroot 8
Heuchera richardsonii
Common buckthorn 53
Rhamnus cathartica
White Mulberry 16
Morus alba
Pennsylvania pellitory 19
Parietaria pensylvanica
American elm 54
Ulmus americana
siberian elm 29
Ulmus pumila
hackberry 53
Celtis occidentalis
Garden Balsam 55
Impatiens balsamina
eastern shooting-star 26
Dodecatheon meadia
Blue Jacob's Ladder
Polemonium caeruleum
Prairie Phlox 26
Phlox pilosa
Gray Dogwood 15
Cornus racemosa
red osier dogwood 56
Cornus sericea
Swamp milkweed 57
Asclepias incarnata
Butterfly milkweed 58
Asclepias tuberosa
Whorled milkweed 26
Asclepias verticillata
Indian hemp 59
Apocynum cannabinum
buttonbush 60
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Catchweed Bedstraw 18
Galium aparine

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