Wildflowers for the Home Garden
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With so much of the state converted to agriculture and urbanized areas, it is ever so important that homeowners create mini-refuges on their properties when possible. Native wildlife need native plants to survive and there is a lot the average person can do to create habitat for these organisms in their own yards. Botanist Chris Benda will take the audience on a tour of Illinois by region, highlighting the many showy and interesting wildflowers that can be found in each region of the state. Emphasis will be on easy to grow species that are available in the nursery trade.
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- 1. Illinois Wildflowers for the Home Garden by Christopher David Benda Home, Lawn, and Garden Day March 4, 2017
- 2. CHRISTOPHER DAVID BENDA, M.S. Past President Illinois Native Plant Society Instructor, Flora of Southern Illinois Southern Illinois University Instructor The Morton Arboretum Technical Expert Consultant Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board Plant Ecologist Illinois Natural History Survey Instructor – Master Naturalist Somme Woods – Cook County Illinois Environmental Council
- 5. Kankakee Mallow (Iliamna remota), IL-E Annual Gathering Augustana College Rock Island, IL June 2 -4, 2017
- 6. Illinois Botany Facebook group Illinois Botanists Big Year Competition
- 7. What are natural areas and nature preserves? Illinois Natural Areas Inventory (INAI) Category I – High Quality Natural Communities Category II – Threatened and Endangered Species Category III – Natural Preserve Category IV – Geologic Features Category VI – Unusual Concentration of Flora or Fauna (High Quality Streams) Category I – High Quality Natural Communities Category II – Threatened and Endangered Species Category III – Natural Preserve Category IV – Geologic Features Category VI – Unusual Concentration of Flora or Fauna (High Quality Streams)
- 8. 0.07% in a natural condition
- 10. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory Update the numbers: 19 counties 685 potential natural areas 33,727 photos taken 56,828 miles driven 632/984 days in the field
- 11. George B. Fell – Natural Land Institute “We are living at the time of man’s final conquest over the wilderness. What we have saved, and what we may save in the next few years, will be all the true wild nature that will remain to pass on from generation to generation in the years ahead. There will never be another chance.”
- 13. Illinois Natural Divisions 1. Wisconsin Driftless 2. Rock River Hill Country 3. Northeastern Morainal 4. Grand Prairie 5. Western Forest-Prairie 6. Illinois/Mississippi River Sand Areas 7. Upper Mississippi/Illinois River Bottomlands 8. Middle Mississippi Border 9. Lower Mississippi River Bottomlands 10. Southern Till Plain 11. Wabash Border 12. Ozarks 13. Shawnee Hills 14. Coastal Plain
- 15. Why use native plants? 1. Support native wildlife 2. Adapted to region 3. Less maintenance 4. Cheaper EVOLUTION
- 16. Strategies for planting 1. Color 2. Bloom time 3. Species adapted for soil/light conditions 4. Ferns, grasses, shrubs
- 19. Plant Resources for Southern Illinois Field Guide Books & Websites
- 20. Plant Resources for Southern Illinois Field Guide Books & Websites
- 22. Common & Variegated (Asclepias syriaca & A. variegata)
- 23. Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
- 24. White Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias perennis)
- 25. Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
- 26. Prairie Milkweed (Asclepias sullivantii)
- 27. Tall Green & Horsetail (Asclepias hirtella & A. verticillata)
- 28. Green & Green-flowered (Asclepias viridiflora & A. viridis)
- 29. Poke & Purple (Asclepias exaltata & A. purpurescens)
- 30. Whorled Milkweed (Asclepias quadrifolia)
- 31. Mead’s & Oval-leaved Milkweed (Asclepias meadii & ovalifolia)
- 32. Climbing Milkweed – Matelea gonocarpos
- 33. Climbing Milkweed – Matelea obliqua
- 34. Illinois Beach Nature Preserve – Lake County
- 35. Bird’s-foot Violet (Viola pedata)
- 37. Prairie Gentian (Gentiana puberulenta)
- 38. Prairie Lily (Lilium philadelphicum)
- 39. Michigan Lily (Lilium michiganense)
- 40. White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)
- 41. Wild Hyacinth (Camassia scilloides)
- 42. Blazing Star (Liatris spicata)
- 43. Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
- 44. Gray-headed Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
- 45. Canada Milkvetch (Astragalus canadensis)
- 46. Ohio Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis)
- 47. White Wild Indigo Bush (Baptisia alba)
- 50. Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia humifusa)
- 51. Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis)
- 52. New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus)
- 53. Cleft Phlox (Phlox bifida)
- 54. Wood Betony (Pedicularis canadensis)
- 55. Blue Sage (Salvia azurea var. grandiflora), IL-T
- 56. Royal Catchfly (Silene regia)
- 57. Leafy Prairie Clover (Dalea foliosa), Fed-E, IL-E
- 58. Nachusa Grasslands – Lee and Ogle counties
- 59. Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid (Platanthera leucophaea), Fed-T, IL-E
- 60. Shoe Factory Road Prairie Nature Preserve – Cook County
- 61. Bluff Spring Fen Nature Preserve – Cook County
- 62. Lockport Prairie Nature Preserve – Will County
- 63. Fults Hill Prairie Nature Preserve
- 64. Glade Coneflower - Echinacea simulata
- 66. Weston Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve – McLean County
- 68. Munson Township Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve – Henry County
- 69. Prospect Cemetery Nature Preserve – Ford County
- 70. Dead River – Illinois Beach Nature Preserve
- 71. Blue Flag Iris & Copper Iris (Iris schrevei & I. fulva)
- 72. Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
- 76. Deer Grove West – Cook County
- 77. White Trillium – Trillium flexipes
- 78. Red Trillium (Trillium erectum), IL-E
- 80. Dwarf Larkspur– Delphinium tricorne
- 81. Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
- 82. Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium reptans)
- 83. Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
- 84. Celandine Poppy – Stylophorum diphyllum
- 85. Wild Columbine – Aquilegia canadensis
- 86. Doll’s Eyes (Actaea pachypoda)
- 87. Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
- 90. Woodland Sunflower (Helianthus divaricatus)
- 92. Busse Forest Nature Preserve – Cook County
- 93. Merwin Savanna Nature Preserve – McLean County
- 94. Spitler Woods Nature Preserve – Macon County
- 96. Piney Creek Ravine Nature Preserve
- 97. Piney Creek Ravine Nature Preserve
- 98. Starved Rock State Park – LaSalle County
- 99. Small-flowered Fameflower (Phemeranthus parviflorus), IL-T
- 101. Widow’s Cross (Sedum pulchellum)
- 102. Wild Orpine (Sedum telephioides), IL-T
- 103. Don’t forget about the fern, grasses, and shrubs!
- 106. Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
- 108. Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia)
- 109. Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra)
- 110. American Strawberry Bush (Euonymus americanus)
- 111. Virginia Sweetspire (Itea virginica)
- 112. Black Haw (Viburnum prunifolium)
- 115. Wild Azalea - Rhododendron prinophyllum