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Here’s a complete list of Illinois Native Plants that will help you explore the indigenous specimens of the state! Illinois has a wonderful biodiversity. It is the habitat of many species of plants that harmoniously live and adapt to each other.
Interested in seeing Illinois native plants, warm-season grasses, flowers, legumes, and forbs that will thrive in Illinois? Check out this factsheet with color photos to help you identify species and learn what planting and site conditions they prefer.
native flora and natural communities of Illinois . Become a Member. The Illinois Native Plant Society Reseach Fund. Developed to promote the conservation of Illinois native plants and communities through scientific research through annual grant awards. LEARN MORE. INPS 2025 GRANT APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE IN EARLY DECEMBER. MORE INFORMATION.
Planting Illinois native plants can be a rewarding journey, cultivating beauty and biodiversity in your garden. Embrace the flora of Illinois with native plants like purple coneflower, prairie dropseed, wild bergamot, compass plant, and marsh marigold, adding beauty and resilience to your garden.
Illinois Native Plants for the Home Landscape. This brochure is a guide to the characteristics and benefits of selected Illinois plants to help home gardeners choose native plants appropriate for site-specific conditions. By using native plants in your landscape, you help support healthy ecosystems on land and water.
Whether you have an area around your home that gets full sun or shade, is wet or dry, there is a native shrub option for you. Native shrubs are touted as easier to care for and provide ecosystem services like flowers for pollinators and berries for birds.
Native plants provide beauty as well as food and shelter for wildlife. Native species are adapted to the Illinois climate. They require little or no watering and are resistant to drought, insects and most diseases. Because they are perennials, you can welcome their presence year after year.
Recommended resources for plant identification in Illinois and surrounding regions. General/Regional Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary by James G. Harris and Melinda Woolf Harris. 2001.
This brochure is a guide to the characteristics and benefits of selected Illinois plants to help home gardeners choose native plants appropriate for site-specific conditions. By using native plants in your landscape, you help support healthy ecosystems on land and water.
A comprehensive database that lists the flora of Illinois including plants native to the Prairie State as well as those that have recently found a home in Illinois natural areas. Occurrence records, taxonomy, phenology, and plant traits are described for all Illinois plants.