Elmhurst Great Western Prairie
The Elmhurst Great Western Prairie is a subsection of the Illinois Prairie Path in Elmhurst, Illinois that has been maintained since 1977 by the Elmhurst Park District.
The Elmhurst Great Western Prairie is a small plot of land that through incomplete land allocation, has been allowed to remain undisturbed from even before Elmhurst was first settled.
According to a 1977 survey conducted by the Elmhurst Prairie Project, the following plants are present there:
- Allium canadense (wild onion)
- Allium cernuum (nodding wild onion)
- Andropogon gerardi (big bluestem)
- Andropogon scoparius (little bluestem)
- Apocynum sibiricum (dogbane)
- Anemone canadensis (meadow anemone)
- Anemone cylindrica (thimbleweed)
- Aster ericoides (heath aster)
- Aster laevis (smooth blue aster)
- Aster novae-angliae (New England aster)
- Aster praealtus (willow aster)
- Aster simplex (panicled aster)
- Calamgrostis canadensis (blue joint grass)
- Cirsium discolor (pasture thistle)
- Comandra richardsiana (false toadflax)
- Coreopsis palmata (prairie coreopsis)
- Dodecatheon meadia (shooting star)
- Equisetum arvense (horsetail)
- Equisetum hyemale (scouring rush)
- Erigeron philadelphicus (marsh fleabane)
- Erigeron strigosus (daisy fleabane)
- Eryngium yuccifolium (rattlesnake master)
- Eupatorium serotinum (late boneset)
- Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry)
- Galium obtusum (wild madder)
- Gentiana puberula (prairie gentian)
- Helenium autumnale (sneezeweed)
- Helianthus grosseserratus (sawtooth sunflower)
- Heuchera richardsoniana (alum root)
- Hypoxis hirsuta (yellow star grass)
- Iris virginica (blue flag)
- Lespedeza capitata (round-headed bush clover)
- Lithospermum canescens (hoary puccoon)
- Lysimachia lanceolata (lance-leaved loosestrife)
- Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot)
- Panicum leibergii (prairie panic grass)
- Panicum virgatum (switchgrass)
- Phlox pilosa (prairie phlox)
- Physostegia virginiana (false dragonhead)
- Polygonium amphibum (water knotweed)
- Polygonum coccineum (water heartsease)
- Potentilla simplex (common cinquefoil)
- Pycnanthemum virginianum (mountain mint)
- Ratibida pinnata (yellow coneflower)
- Rosa carolina (pasture rose)
- Rudbeckia hirta (black-eyed Susan)
- Silphium terebinthinaceum (prairie dock)
- Sisyrinchium albidum (blue-eyed grass)
- Solidago juncea (early goldenrod)
- Solidago rigida (stiff goldenrod)
- Sorghastrum nutans (Indian grass)
- Spartina pectinata (prairie cord grass)
- Sporobolus heterolepis (prairie dropseed)
- Stipia spartea (porcupine grass)
- Tephrosia virginiana (hoary pea)
- Thalictrum dasycarpum (purple meadow rue)
- Tradescantia ohiensis (common spiderwort)
- Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver's root)
- Vicia americana (American vetch)
- Viola papilionacea (common blue violet)
- Viola pedatifida (prairie violet)
- Zizia aurea (golden Alexander)
References
Elmhurst Great Western Prairie Project, Plants of the Elmhurst Great Western Prairie. (EGWP) 1977.
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