Prairie Plants

High Point Dr. Shoreline Buffer Strip

Shoreline Plant Identification  

 

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Color Code:  NATIVE

Common Names

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Scientific Names

MESIC PRAIRIE

Nodding Wild Onion

 

Allium cernuum

Lead Plant

 

Amorpha canescens

Little Bluestem

 

Andropogon scoparius

American Columbine

 

Aquilegia canadensis

Butterfly Weed

 

Asclepias tuberosa

Sky Blue Aster

 

Aster azureus

Smooth Blue Aster

 

Aster leavis

White Wild Indigo

 

Baptisia leucantha

Prairie Tickseed

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Coreopsis palmata

Shooting Star

 

Dodecatheon meadii

Pale Purple Coneflower

 

Echinacea pallida

Round-headed Bush clover

 

Lespedeza capitata

Marsh Blazing Star

 

Liatris spicata

Wild Quinine

 

Parthenium integrefolium

Foxgrove Beard Tongue

 

Penstomen digitalis

Purple Clover

 

Petalostemum purpurem

False Dragonshead

 

Physostegia virginiana

Black-eyed Susan

 

Rudbeckia hirta

Compass Plant

 

Silphium lacinatum

Prairie Dock

 

Silphium terebinthinaceuum

Prairie Dropseed

 

Sporobolus heterolepis

Culver’s Root

 

Veronicastrum virginicum

Golden Alexander

 

Zizia aurea

WET PRAIRIE ZONE

Prairie Cordgrass

 

Spartina pectianta

Swamp Milkweed

 

Asclepias incarnate

Joe-Pye Weed

 Spotted Joe-Pye Weed

Eupatorium maculatum

Sneezeweed

 

Helenium autumnale

Great Blue Lobelia

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Lobelia siphilitica

Blue Vervain

 Blue Vervain

Verbena hastate

Blue Flag Iris

 

Iris virginica

Cardinal Flower

 

Lobelia cardinalis

Monkey Flower

 

Mimulis ringens

 

 

Boltonia asteroids

EMERGENT

Arrowhead

 

Sagittaria latifolia

Hard-stemmed Bulrush

 

Scirpus acutus

 

 

Planted August 07