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Flowers in the Bald Cypress Garden
If you would like to learn more about these native plants, we recommend Illinois Wildflowers (yes, they have information on shrubs & trees, too) or Missouri Botanical Garden’s Plant Finder.
Black-eyed susan
Rudbeckia speciosa
Jacob's ladder
Polemonium reptans
Pale purple coneflower
Echinacea pallida
Shrubby St. John's wort
Hypericum prolific
Butterfly weed
Asclepias tuberosa
Northern dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
Pale indian plantain
Cacalia atriplicifolia
Wild bergamot
Monad fistulosa
Hoary puccon
Lithospermum canescens
Golden alexander
Zizia aurea
Prairie bundleflower
Desmanthus Illinoensis
Prairie dock
Silphium terebinthinaceum
​Wild quinine
Parthenium integrifolium
Prairie phlox
Phlox pilosa
Winged loosestrife
Lithium alatum
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