Wildflowers/flowering plants:

●      Swamp milkweed

●      False sunflower

●      Butterfly weed

●      Bergamot

●      Common boneset

●      Hoary vervain

●      White vervain

●      Pointed-tick trefoil

●      Meadow blazing star

●      Black-eyed susan

●      Grey-headed coneflower

●      Anise hyssop, aka giant blue hyssop

●      Smooth Solomon’s seal

●      Common blue violet

●      Yellow wood sorel

●      Large-flowered bellwort

●      Common evening primrose

●      Catnip/catmint

●      American lopseed

●      Partridge pea

●      White snakeroot

Grasses:

●      Big bluestem

●      Little bluestem

●      Common oat

●      Virginia stickseed or beggar’s lice

●      Side oats grana

●      Prairie dropseed

Shrubs:

●      Chokecherry

●      Alternate-leaved dogwood

●      Common prickly ash

Trees:

●      Eastern red cedar

●      Eastern black walnut

●      Eastern white pine

●      Silver maple

●      American elm

●      Bur oak

●      Box elder

●      White spruce

●      Common hackberry

●      Green ash (not desirable because of EAB)

Aquatic species:[1] 

●      Arrowhead

Vines:

●      Virginia creeper

●      Riverbank grape

●      Thicket creeper

Invasive species:

●      Greater burdock

●      Common Buckthorn

●      Purple loosestrife

●      Reed canary grass

●      Greater plantain

●      Narrow-leaf cattail[2] 

●      Cheatgrass

●      Orange day lily

●      Yellow sweet clover

●      Tatarian honeysuckle

●      Common motherwort

●      Canada thistle[3] 

●      Bittersweet nightshade

Generally considered undesirable, “weeds”:

●      Common dandelion

●      Horseweed

●      Giant ragweed

●      Canada wild lettuce

●      American burnweed

●      Black raspberry

(created summer 2025)