Native Skokie Parks
Pollinators and plants native to Illinois in Skokie ParksNative-Skokie-Parks-logo

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
milkweed Common milkweed Asclepias syriaca Tan June – September 3'–8'
butterfly-weed Butterfly weed Asclepias tuberosa Pink June–August 2'–3'
fpo-NSP Whorled milkweed Asclepias verticillata White June–September 1'–2.5'
prairie-coriopsis Prairie coreopsis Coreopsis palmata Purple July–September 2'–5'
fpo-NSP Prairie dropseed Sporobolus heterolepis Pale green August–September 2'–5'
SkyAsterBlue Sky-blue aster Symphyotrichum oolentangiense Purple July–September 2'–5'

 

Photos by Bill Glass except where noted*.

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