Special Collections
Illinois Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Illinois. Visit our Suppliers Directory to locate businesses that sell native plants or seeds or provide professional landscape or consulting services in this state. Visit the Organizations Directory to locate native plant societies, conservation groups, governmental agencies, botanical gardens, arboreta, and other plant-related organizations in this state.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Actaea pachypoda | White Baneberry Dolls Eyes | |
| Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
| Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
| Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern | |
| Aesculus glabra | Ohio Buckeye Texas Buckeye Fetid Buckeye Horse Chestnut | |
| Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
| Allium stellatum | Autumn Onion Prairie Onion | |
| Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
| Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant Amorpha Prairie Shoestring | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
| Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
| Anemone cylindrica | Candle Anemone Long-headed Thimbleweed Longhead Thimbleweed Thimbleweed | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Asarum canadense | Canadian Wild Ginger Wild Ginger | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
| Baptisia alba | White Wild Indigo White Baptisia | |
| Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract Wild Indigo Cream False Indigo Plains Wild Indigo Cream Wild Indigo Large-bracted Wild Indigo | |
| Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
| Betula papyrifera | Paper Birch Canoe Birch White Birch | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
| Bromus kalmii | Arctic Brome Prairie Brome Wild Chess | |
| Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower Tall Bellflower | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
| Caltha palustris | Yellow Marsh Marigold Cowslip | |
| Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge | |
| Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble | |
| Catalpa speciosa | Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
| Carex stipata | Awlfruit Sedge Awl-fruited Sedge Stalk-grain Sedge | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
| Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
| Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant | |
| Chelone glabra | White Turtlehead | |
| Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
| Corylus americana | American Hazelnut American Filbert | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
| Cornus obliqua | Silky Dogwood Pale Dogwood Swamp Dogwood Kinnikinnik | |
| Coreopsis palmata | Stiff Tickseed Stiff Coreopsis Finger Coreopsis | |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray Dogwood | |
| Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
| Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
| Crataegus mollis | Downy Hawthorn White Thorn Whitethorn Scarlet Hawthorn Scarlet Haw Red Haw Downy Thorn | |
| Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda | Shrubby Cinquefoil Golden Hardhack Potentilla | |
| Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
| Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
| Diervilla lonicera | Northern Bush Honeysuckle Northern Bush-honeysuckle Diervilla | |
| Dirca palustris | Eastern Leatherwood Western Leatherwood Ropebark Wicopy | |
| Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
| Dryopteris cristata | Crested Woodfern Crested Wood Fern Buckler Fern | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
| Euphorbia corollata | Flowering Spurge | |
| Euthamia graminifolia | Flat-top Goldentop Grass-leaved Goldenrod | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common Boneset | |
| Eutrochium purpureum | Purple Joepyeweed Sweet-scented Joepyeweed Sweet Joepyeweed | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Fragaria virginiana | Virginia Strawberry Wild Strawberry | |
| Gentiana alba | Plain Gentian Yellow Gentian Cream Gentian | |
| Gentiana andrewsii | Closed Bottle Gentian Closed Gentian Bottle Gentian | |
| Geranium maculatum | Spotted Geranium Wild Geranium Cranesbill | |
| Geum triflorum | Old Man's Whiskers Prairie Smoke Purple Avens | |
| Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky Coffeetree Stump Tree | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
| Helenium autumnale | Common Sneezeweed Fall Sneezeweed Autumn Sneezeweed | |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth Oxeye Oxeye Sunflower False Sunflower | |
| Heuchera richardsonii | Richardson's Alumroot Prairie Alumroot | |
| Helianthus strumosus | Paleleaf Woodland Sunflower Paleleaf Sunflower Woodland Sunflower | |
| Hypericum prolificum | Shrubby St. John's-wort | |
| Hydrophyllum virginianum | Virginia Waterleaf Eastern Waterleaf Shawnee Salad | |
| Ilex verticillata | Common Winterberry Winterberry Michigan Holly Black Alder | |
| Iris virginica var. shrevei | Shreve's Iris Virginia Iris Southern Blue Flag Blue Flag | |
| Juglans nigra | Black Walnut Eastern Black Walnut American Black Walnut | |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Redcedar Virginia Juniper Red Juniper Pencil Cedar Carolina Cedar Red Savin | |
| Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's Grass | |
| Lespedeza capitata | Roundhead Lespedeza Roundhead Bush-clover Round-headed Lespedeza Round-headed Bush-clover | |
| Liatris aspera | Tall Blazing Star Tall Gayfeather Tall Liatris Rough Blazing Star Rough Gayfeather Rough Liatris Button Snakeroot | |
| Lilium philadelphicum | Wood Lily | |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star Prairie Gayfeather Prairie Liatris Kansas Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Kansas Liatris Cat-tail Blazing Star Cat-tail Gayfeather Cat-tail Liatris Hairy Button-snakeroot | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
| Lupinus perennis | Sundial Lupine Wild Lupine | |
| Malus ioensis | Prairie Crabapple Iowa Crabapple Western Crabapple Prairie Crab Iowa Crab Western Crab | |
| Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum | Feathery False Lily Of The Valley False Spikenard False Solomon's Seal Solomon's Plume Smilacina | |
| Mertensia virginica | Virginia Bluebells | |
| Mitchella repens | Partridgeberry Twinberry Running Box Pigeon Plum | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
