These are the native plants I’ve found growing on the dry prairie point and the surrounding remnant savannas.

*Species that weren’t here – or at least I didn’t find them – when we first came, so I’ve added them as either seeds or seedlings.

Acer rubrum – Red Maple
Amorpha canescens – Lead Plant
Andropogon gerardii – Big Bluestem
Anemone cylindrica – Thimbleweed
Anemone virginiana – Tall Anemone
Antennaria neglecta – Field Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia – Plantain-leaved Pussytoes
Aquilegia canadensis – Wild Columbine
Arabis lyrata – Sand Cress
Aralia racemosa – American Spikenard
Asclepias tuberosa – Butterflyweed
Asclepias syriaca – Common Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata – Whorled Milkweed
Aster ericoides – Heath Aster
Aster oolentangiensis – Sky Blue Aster
Aster sericeus – Silky Aster
Betula papyrifera – White Birch
Bouteloua curtipendula – Side-oats Grama
Bromus kalmii – Prairie Brome
Bromus latiglumis – Ear-leaved Brome
Campanula rotundifolia – Harebell
Calystegia spithamaea  – Low Bindweed
Carex pensylvanica – Pennsylvania Sedge
Castilleja sessiliflora – Downy Paintbrush
Ceanothus americana – New Jersey Tea
Celastrus scandens – American Bittersweet
Celtis occidentalis – Hackberry
Cirsium altissimum – Tall Thistle
Cirsium discolor – Field Thistle
Comandra umbellata – Bastard Toadflax
Corallorhiza odontorhiza – Autumn Coralroot
Coreopsis palmata – Prairie Coreopsis
Corylus americana – American Hazelnut
Crataegus  – Hawthorn
Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens – Yellow Lady’s Slipper
Dalea purpurea – Purple Prairie Clover
Draba reptans – Common Whitlow-grass
Elymus hystrix – Bottlebrush Grass
Eupatorium altissimum – Upland Boneset
Eupatorium purpureum – Woodland Joe-pye Weed
Eupatorium rugosum – White Snakeroot
Fragaria sp. – Wild Strawberry
Fraxinus – Ash
Gentiana quinquefolia – Stiff Gentian
Hypoxis hirsuta – Yellow Star Grass
Juglans nigra – Black Walnut
Juniperus communis – Common Juniper
Juniperus virginiana – Eastern Red Cedar
Linum sulcatum – Grooved Yellow Flax
Lithospermum canescens – Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum incisum – Fringed Puccoon
Lobelia spicata – Spiked Lobelia
Monarda fistulosa – Monarda
Oxalis stricta – Common Yellow Wood Sorrel
Oxalis violacea – Violet Wood Sorrel
Packera paupercula – Balsam Ragwort
Polygala sanguinea – Purple Milkwort
Polygala verticillata – Whorled Milkwort
Prunus pensylvanica – Fire Cherry
Prunus pumila – Sand Cherry
Prunus serotina – Black Cherry
Quercus alba – White Oak
Quercus ellipsoidalis – Hill’s Oak
Quercus macrocarpa – Burr Oak
Quercus velutina – Black Oak
Ratibida pinnata – Yellow Coneflower
Rhus – Sumac
Rubus
Schizachyrium scoparium – Little Bluestem
Sisyrinchium campestre – Blue-eyed Grass
Solidago canadensis – Canada Goldenrod
Solidago nemoralis – Gray Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides – Upland White Goldenrod
Solidago rigida – Stiff Goldenrod
Solidago speciosa – Showy Goldenrod
Sorghastrum nutans – Indian Grass
Spiranthes magnicamporum – Great Plains Lady’s Tresses
Sporobolus heterolepis – Prairie Dropseed
Toxicodendron rydbergii – Western Poison Ivy
Triosteum perfoliatum – Tinker’s Weed*
Ulmus – Elm
Viola macloskeyi – Small White Violet
Viola X palmata – Early Blue Violet
Viola pedata – Bird’s Foot Violet
Viola pedatifida – Prairie Violet
Viola pubescens – Yellow Violet
Viola sororia – Common Blue Violet
Zanthoxylum americanum – Prickly Ash
Zigadenus elegans – White Camas
Zizia aurea – Golden Alexanders