The Natural World of Southern Illinois

This is a growing guide of all the wildlife and plant species that one might find in Southern Illinois.

All 500

red deadnettle ¹
Lamium purpureum

ground-ivy ²
Glechoma hederacea

lanceleaf fogfruit ³
Phyla lanceolata

bloodroot ⁴
Sanguinaria canadensis

Dutchman's breeches ⁵
Dicentra cucullaria

Goldenseal ⁶
Hydrastis canadensis

dwarf larkspur ⁷
Delphinium tricorne

cursed crowfoot ⁸
Ranunculus sceleratus

mayapple ⁹
Podophyllum peltatum

field bindweed ¹⁰
Convolvulus arvensis

hedge bindweed ¹¹
Calystegia sepium

Japanese honeysuckle ¹²
Lonicera japonica

Amur honeysuckle ¹³
Lonicera maackii

American black elderberry ¹⁴
Sambucus canadensis

clustered black snakeroot ¹⁵
Sanicula odorata

rattlesnake master ¹⁶
Eryngium yuccifolium

harbinger of spring ¹⁷
Erigenia bulbosa

wild carrot ¹⁸
Daucus carota

heart-leaf golden Alexanders ¹⁹
Zizia aptera

golden Alexander ²⁰
Zizia aurea

poison hemlock ²¹
Conium maculatum

swamp rose mallow ²²
Hibiscus moscheutos

northern spicebush ²³
Lindera benzoin

sassafras ⁶
Sassafras albidum

common pawpaw ²⁴
Asimina triloba

tulip tree ²⁵
Liriodendron tulipifera

eastern cottonwood ²⁶
Populus deltoides

common blue violet ²⁷
Viola sororia

Carolina leaf-flower ²⁸
Phyllanthus caroliniensis

Carolina leafflower
Phyllanthus caroliniensis caroliniensis

shrubby St. John's-wort ²⁹
Hypericum prolificum

Canadian wild ginger ³⁰
Asarum canadense

American sycamore ³¹
Platanus occidentalis

upright yellow woodsorrel ³²
Oxalis stricta

dame's rocket ³³
Hesperis matronalis

cut-leaved toothwort ³⁴
Cardamine concatenata

Rocky Mountain bee plant ³⁵
Peritoma serrulata

American sweetgum ³⁶
Liquidambar styraciflua

Virginia creeper ³⁷
Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Porcelain Berry ¹⁸
Ampelopsis glandulosa

porcelain berry ³⁸
Ampelopsis glandulosa brevipedunculata

Indiangrass ³⁹
Sorghastrum nutans

river cane ⁴⁰
Arundinaria gigantea

switchgrass ⁴¹
Panicum virgatum

prairie dropseed ⁴²
Sporobolus heterolepis

common reed ⁴³
Phragmites australis

bulrush ⁴⁴
Typha latifolia

putty root ⁴⁵
Aplectrum hyemale

Spiranthes cernua

Spiranthes incurva

false Solomon's seal ⁴⁶
Maianthemum racemosum

common star-of-Bethlehem ⁴⁷
Ornithogalum umbellatum

wild garlic ⁴⁸
Allium vineale

orange day-lily ⁴⁹
Hemerocallis fulva

white fawnlily ⁵⁰
Erythronium albidum

prairie trillium ⁵¹
Trillium recurvatum

Illinois Greenbrier ⁵²
Smilax illinoensis

bristly greenbrier ⁵³
Smilax tamnoides

largeflower bellwort ²⁶
Uvularia grandiflora

Jack-in-the-pulpit ⁵⁴
Arisaema triphyllum

Asiatic dayflower ⁵⁵
Commelina communis

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