Native Skokie Parks - Oakton

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*.