Flowers
12th Annual Native Plant Sale

When: May 9, 9am - 3pm,
            May 10, 10am - 3pm

Where:
Independence Grove Forest Preserve
Located just east of Milwaukee Ave. (Route 21) on Buckley Road (Route 137) in Libertyville.

  • Choose from variety of native plants, shrubs and trees for almost any backyard.
  • Native plants are beautiful, hardy for Illinois weather, less expensive and easy to maintain, as well as beneficial to the environment:
    • No need for fertilizers, pesticides, water and lawn maintenance equipment.
    • Native flowering species will provide an abundance of nectar and attract wildlife from butterflies and songbirds, to chipmunks and beneficial insects.
This is a fundraiser
The annual Native Plant Sale is a fundraiser that benefits EnviroPatrol programs: Preservation Partners and Mighty Acorns.
Donations to the Lake County Forest Preserves for the EnviroPatrol programs are welcome and much appreciated. Thank you for your support.

Plant Type Size Price
Flowers and Grass 1/2-pint to 1-gallon $3.50 - $10
Shrubs and Vines 5-gallon bucket $20
Trees 5-gallon bucket $25
Limited quantities of plants are available; some substitutions of species or sizes may be necessary.
All sales are final.

To see pictures of the plants and get more information visit:
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/

http://www.possibilityplace.com/

Flowers and Grasses

Prairie - Full Sun/Part Sun Savanna - Part Sun/Shade Woodland - Shade
Anise hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
Wild garlic
Allium canadense
Doll's eyes
Actaea pachypoda
Lead plant
Amorpha canescens
Nodding wild onion
Allium cernuum
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Arisaema triphyllum
Big bluestem - grass
Andropogon gerardii
Columbine
Aquilegia canadensis
Lady fern
Athyrium filix-femina
Swamp milkweed
Asclepias incarnata
Calico aster
Aster lateriflorus
Wild ginger
Asarum Canadense
Prairie milkweed
Asclepias sullivantii
Big-leaved aster
Aster macrophyllus
Woodland brome - grass
Bromus Pubescens
Butterfly weed
Asclepias tuberosa
Short's aster
Aster shortii
Wild strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
Sky blue aster
Aster azureus
Prairie brome - grass
Bromus kalmii
Woodland sunflower
Helianthus strumosus
Smooth blue aster
Aster laevis
Wild hyacinth
Camassia scilloides
Sharp-lobed hepatica
Hepatica acutiloba
New England aster
Aster novae-angliae
Trumpetcreeper
Campsis radicans
Royal fern
Osmunda regalis spectabilis
Monkey flower
Mimulus ringens
Leather flower
Clematis pitcheri
Sensitive fern
Onoclea sensibilis
Blue wild indigo
Baptisia australis
Virgin's bower
Clematis virginiana
Smooth Solomon's seal
Polygonatum canaliculatum
White wild indigo
Baptisia leucantha
Shooting star
Dodecatheon meadia
Smooth Solomon's seal
Polygonatum canaliculatum
Cream wild indigo
Baptisia leucophaea
Sweet Joe-Pye Weed
Eupatorium purpureum
Wild golden glow
Rudbeckia laciniata
False aster
Boltonia asteroides
White snakeroot
Eupatorium rugosum
Smooth petunia
Ruellia strepens
Side-oats grama - grass
Bouteloua curtipendula
Wild geranium
Geranium maculatum
False Solomon's seal
Smilacina racemosa
Sand coreopsis
Coreopsis lanceolata
Sweet grass - grass
Hierochloe odorata
Elm-leaved goldenrod
Solidago ulmifolia
Prairie coreopsis
Coreopsis palmata
Bottlebrush grass - grass
Hystrix patula
 
Pale coneflower
Echinacea pallida
Blue flag iris
Iris virginica shrevei
 
Purple love grass - grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
Savanna blazing star
Liatris scariosa
 
Rattlesnake master
Eryngium yuccifolium
Cardinal flower
Lobelia cardinalis
 
Joe-Pye weed
Eupatorium maculatum
Great blue lobelia
Lobelia siphilitica
 
Boneset
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Foxglove beardtongue
Penstemon digitalis
 
Prairie smoke
Geum triflorum
May apple
Podophyllum peltatum
 
Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
Jacob's ladder
Polemonium reptans
 
Common rush - grass
Juncus effusus
Sweet black-eyed susan
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
 
June grass - grass
Koeleria cristata
Brown-eyed susan
Rudbeckia triloba
 
Rough blazing star
Liatris aspera
Ohio spiderwort
Tradescantia ohiensis
 
Prairie blazing star
Liatris pycnostachya
   
Marsh blazing star
Liatris spicata
   
Wild bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
   
Spotted bee balm
Monarda punctata
   
Eastern prickly pear
Opuntia humifusa
   
Switch grass - grass
Panicum virgatumPanicum virgatum
   
Wild quinine
Parthenium integrifolium
   
White prairie clover
Petalostemum candidum
   
Purple prairie clover
Petalostemum purpureum
   
Obedient plant
Physostegia virginiana
   
Mountain mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
   
Gray-headed coneflower
Ratibida pinnata
   
Black-eyed susan
Rudbeckia hirta
   
Showy black-eyed susan
Rudbeckia speciosa
   
Wild petunia
Ruellia humilis
   
Little bluestem - grass
Schizachyrium scoparium
   
Rosinweed
Silphium integrifolium
   
Compass plant
Silphium laciniatum
   
Cup plant
Silphium perfoliatum
   
Prairie dock
Silphium terebinthinaceum
   
Stiff goldenrod
Solidago rigida
   
Showy goldenrod
Solidago speciosa
   
Indian grass - grass
Sorghastrum nutans
   
Northern dropseed - grass
Sporobolus heterolepis
   
Blue vervain
Verbena hastata
   
Hoary vervain
Verbena stricta
   
Common ironweed
Vernonia fasciculata
   
Culver's root
Veronicastrum virginicum
   
Golden Alexanders
Zizia aurea
   


Trees
Shrubs
Sugar maple
Acer saccharum
Black chokeberry
Aronia meloanocarpa
June berry
Amelanchier interior
Buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Bottlebrush buckeye
Aesculus parviflora
American filbert
Corylus americana
Paw paw
Asimina triloba
Wahoo
Euonymus atropureus
Pagoda dogwood
Cornus alternifolia
Smooth hydrangea
Hydrangea arborescens
Butternut
Juglans cinera
Shrubby St. John's wort
Hypericum prolificum
Quaking aspen
Populus tremuloides
Spicebush
Lindera benzoin
Black cherry
Prunus serotina
Ninebark
Physocarpus opulifolius
Sycamore
Platanus occidentalis
Swamp rose
Rosa palustris
Swamp white oak
Quercus bicolor
Maple leaf viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
Bur oak
Quercus macrocarpa
Withe rod viburnum
Viburnum cassinoides
Chinquapin oak
Quercus meuhlenbergii
Nannyberry
Viburnum lentago
Red oak
Quercus rubra
Blackhaw viburnum
Viburnum prunifolium

LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVES - 2000 N MILWAUKEE AVE - LIBERTYVILLE IL 60048
(847) 367-6640 | forest preserves@LCFPD.org