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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.

Indiangrass 1
Sorghastrum nutans
river cane 2
Arundinaria gigantea
switchgrass 3
Panicum virgatum
prairie dropseed 4
Sporobolus heterolepis
common reed 5
Phragmites australis
bulrush 6
Typha latifolia
putty root 7
Aplectrum hyemale
Spiranthes cernua
Spiranthes incurva
false Solomon's seal 8
Maianthemum racemosum
common star-of-Bethlehem 9
Ornithogalum umbellatum
wild garlic 10
Allium vineale
orange day-lily 11
Hemerocallis fulva
white fawnlily 12
Erythronium albidum
prairie trillium 13
Trillium recurvatum
Illinois Greenbrier 14
Smilax illinoensis
bristly greenbrier 15
Smilax tamnoides
largeflower bellwort 16
Uvularia grandiflora
Jack-in-the-pulpit 17
Arisaema triphyllum
Asiatic dayflower 18
Commelina communis

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