Native Skokie Parks
Pollinators and plants native to Illinois in Skokie Parks
This native planting will help create a base for a food web that attracts pollinators and insects which produces food for birds and small mammals which in turn provides food for larger animals that keep our ecosystem in balance.
Here are some of the native plants and flowers that you'll find in our Oakton Center parking lot islands:
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PLANT |
COMMON NAME |
SCIENTIFIC NAME |
COLOR |
BLOOM |
HEIGHT |
|
Common milkweed |
Asclepias syriaca |
Tan |
June – September |
3'–8' |
|
Butterfly weed |
Asclepias tuberosa |
Pink |
June–August |
2'–3' |
|
Whorled milkweed |
Asclepias verticillata |
White |
June–September |
1'–2.5' |
|
Prairie coreopsis |
Coreopsis palmata |
Purple |
July–September |
2'–5' |
|
Prairie dropseed |
Sporobolus heterolepis |
Pale green |
August–September |
2'–5' |
|
Sky-blue aster |
Symphyotrichum oolentangiense |
Purple |
July–September |
2'–5' |
Photos by Bill Glass except where noted*.