Native Skokie Parks-Weber Leisure Center

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  around the grounds of the Weber Leisure Center:

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PLANT	COMMON NAME	SCIENTIFIC NAME	COLOR	BLOOM	HEIGHT
	Acorus americanus	American sweet flag	Green	May–June	2'
	Allium cernuum	Nodding wild onion	Purple	July-August	1.5'
	Andropogon gerardii	Big blue stem	Tan	June-September	7'
	Anemone virginiana	Tall thimbleweed	White	June-August	3'
	Angelica atropurpurea	American angelica	Green	May-June	7'
	Asclepias incarnata	Swamp milkweed	PInk	June-August	4'
	Carex vulpinoidea	Brown fox sedge	Tan	June-July	3'
	Chamaecrista fasciculata	Partridge pea	Yellow	July-September	2'
	Chelone glabra	Turtlehead	White	July-September	5'
	Desmanthus illinoensis	Illinois sensitive plant	White	July-August	5'
	Elymus canadensis	Canada rye	Green	July-October	5'
	Elymus hystrix	Bottlebrush grass	Green	June-August	3'
	Eutrochium maculatum	Spotted Joe pye weed	Pink	July-September	5'
	Filipendula rubra	Queen of the prairie	Pink	June-August	5'
	Geum triflorum	Prairie smoke	Pink	April-June	0.7'
	Glyceria striata	Green fowl manna grass	Green	June-September	3'
	Helenium autumnale	Sneezeweed	Yellow	August-October	4'
	Iris virginica shrevei	Blue flag iris	Blue	May-July	3'
	Juncus effusus	Common rush	Tan	July-September	2'
	Lythrum alatum	Winged loosestrife	Purple	June-September	3'
	Monarda fistulosa	Wild bergamot	Purple	July-September	4'
	Oligoneuron riddellii	Riddell's goldenrod	Yellow	August-October	3'
	Panicum virgatum	Switchgrass	Tan	July-September	4'
	Physostegia virginiana	Obedient plant	Pink	August-September	4'
	Pycnanthemum virginianum	Mountain mint	White	June-September	3'
	Ratibida pinnata	Yellow coneflower	Yellow	July-September	5'
	Rudbeckia subtomentosa	Sweet black-eyed Susan	Yellow	August-October	5'
	Scirpus pendulus	Nodding bulrush	Green	May-July	4'
	Silphium integrifolium	Rosinweed	Yellow	July-September	5'
	Silphium laciniatum	Compass Plant	Yellow	June-September	8'
	Sorghastrum nutans	Indian grass	Tan	August-September	6'
	Spartina pectinata	Cordgrass	Tan	July-September	8'
	Symphyotrichum laeve	Smooth blue Aster	Blue	August-October	4'
	Symphyotrichum novae-angliae	New England aster	Purple	August-October	5'
	Tradescantia ohiensis	Spiderwort	Blue	May-July	3'
	Verbena hastata	Blue vervain	Blue	July-September	5'
	Vernonia fasciculata	Ironweed	Purple	July-September	6'
	Zizia aurea	Golden alexanders	Yellow	April-June	3'

Photos by Bill Glass except where noted*.