Elkhorn Biodiversity Preserve Species List Northwest Illinois Audubon Society * Indicates a non-native species Updated 4/26/2018 Sedges (14) 13 Native Forbs (140) 104 Native Carex bebbii – Bebb’s Oval Sedge Abutilon theophrasti – Velvetleaf * Carex brevior – Plains Oval Sedge Achillea millefolium – Yarrow * Carex brunnescens – Green Bog Sedge Alliaria petiolata – Garlic Mustard * Carex diandra –Bog Panicled Sedge Ambrosia artemisiifolia – Common Ragweed Carex stipata – Common Fox Sedge Ambrosia trifida – Giant Ragweed Carex stricta – Common Tussock Sedge Amorpha canescens – Lead Plant Carex trichocarpa – Hairy-fruited Lake Sedge Anemone canadensis – Meadow Anemone Carex vulpinoidea – Fox Sedge Anemone cylindrica – Thimbleweed Cyperus acuminatus – Short-pointed Flat Sedge Anemone virginiana – Tall Anemone Cyperus echinatus – Globe Sedge * Angelica atropurpurea – Great Angelica Cyperus esculentus – Field Nut Sedge Apocynum cannabinum – Dogbane Cyperus filiculmis – Slender Sand Sedge Arctium minus – Common Burdock * Cyperus rivularis – Brook Nut Sedge Arctium tomentosum – Cotton Burdock * Scirpus atrovirens – Dark Green Rush Asclepias amplexicaulis – Blunt-leaved or Sand Milkweed Ferns (2) Asclepias incarnata – Swamp Milkweed Athyrium filix-femina – Lady Fern Asclepias syriaca – Common Milkweed Onoclea sensibilis – Sensitive Fern Asclepias verticillata – Whorled Milkweed Aster ericoides – Heath Aster Horsetails (2) Aster lateriflorus – Calico Aster Equisetum arvense – Common Horsetail Aster linariifolius – Flax-Leaved Aster (Stiff or Linear- Equisetum hyemale – Scouring Rush leaved Aster) Aster novae-angliae – New England Aster Grasses (23) 12 Native Aster pilosus – Hairy Aster Andropogon gerardii – Big Bluestem Aster praealtus – Willow Aster Schizachyrium scoparium – Little Bluestem Barbarea vulgaris – Yellow Rocket (Winter Cress) * Agropyron repens – Quack Grass * Baptisia leucophaea – Cream Wild Indigo Agrostis alba – Redtop * Bidens cernua – Nodding Bur Marigold Bouteloua curtipendula – Side-oats Grama Campanula aparinoides – Marsh Bellflower Bromus inermis – Smooth Brome * Cardamine bulbosa – Spring Cress Dactylis glomerata – Orchard-grass * Centaurea maculosa – Spotted Knapweed * Digitaria filiformis – Slender Crab Grass Cerastium vulgatum – Mouse-ear Chickweed * Enchinochloa microstachya – Barnyard Grass * Chenopodium album – Lamb’s Quarter * Elymus canadensis – Canada Wild Rye Cicuta maculata – Water Hemlock Eragrotis spectabilis – Purple Love Grass Circaea lutetiana var canadensis – Enchanter’s Festuca sp. – Tall Fescue * Nightshade Leptoloma cognatum – Fall Witch Grass Cirsium arvense – Field Thistle * Oryzopsis asperifolia – Rough-leaved Rice Grass Cirsium discolor – Pasture Thistle Panicum oligosanthes var. scribnerianum – Scribner’s Cirsium vulgare – Bull Thistle * Panic Grass Clematis virginiana – Virgin’s Bower Panicum villosissimum – White-Haired Panic Grass Convolulus sepium – Hedge Bindweed Paspalum setaceum ver. ciliatifolium – Lens Grass Conium maculatum – Poison Hemlock * Phalaris arundinacea – Reed-canary Grass * Daucus carota – Queen-Anne’s Lace * Phleum pratense – Timothy * Dianthus armeria – Deptford Pink * Poa compressa – Canada Blue Grass * Echinocystis lobata – Wild Cucumber Poa pratensis – Kentucky Blue Grass * Epilobuim coloratum – Cinnamon Willow Herb Setaria glauca – Yellow Fox Tail * Erechtites hieracifolia – Fireweed Sorgastrum nutans – Indian Grass Erigeron canadensis – Horseweed Erigeron philadelphicus – Marsh Fleabane Rushes (2) Erigeron strigosus – Daisy Fleabane Eleocharis erythropoda – Red-rooted Spike Rush Eupatorium maculatum – Spotted Joe-Pye Weed Juncus tenuis – Path Rush Euphorbia corollata – Flowering Spurge Fragaria virginiana – Wild Strawberry Galium aparine – Cleavers Galium obtusum – Blunt-leaved Bedstraw Page 1 of 5 Forbs (continued) Forbs (continued) Gentiana puberulenta – Downy Gentian Solanum carolinense – Horse-nettle Gnaphalium obtusifolium – Old-field Balsam Solanum dulcamara – Deadly Nightshade * Helenium autumnale – Sneezeweed Solidago altissima – Tall Goldenrod Helianthus grosseserratus – Sawtooth Sunflower Specularia perfoliata – Venus’s Looking Glass Helianthus rigidus – Prairie Sunflower Stachys tenuifolia var. hispida – Marsh Hedge Nettle Helianthus tuberosus – Jerusalem Artichoke Tanacetum vulgare – Common Tansy * Helianthemum canadense – Rockrose Taraxacum officinale – Dandelion * Heliopsis helianthoides – Early Sunflower Teucrium littorale var, canadense – Germander Heracleum maximum – Cow Parsnip Teucrium littorale var. virginicum – Wood Sage Heuchera richardsonii – Prairie Alum Root Thalictrum dasycarpum – Purple Meadow-rue Hieracium longipilum – Long-bearded Hawkweed Tradescantia ohiensis – Ohio Spiderwort Hypericum pyramidatum – Great St. Johnswort Tragopogon pratense – Goat’s Beard * Impatiens capensis – Orange Jewelweed Tragopogon hybrid – Goat’s Beard x Salsify * Kuhnia eupatoroides – False Boneset Trifolium pratense – Red Clover * Lactuca canadensis – Wild Lettuce Urtica dioica – Stinging Nettle * Lechea stricta – Bushy Pinweed Urtica procera – Tall Nettle Lemna minor – Small Duckweed Verbascum blattaria – Moth Mullein * Leonorus cardiaca – Motherwort * Verbascum thapsus – Common Mullein * Lespedeza capitata – Round-headed Bushclover Verbena hastata – Blue Vervain Liatris aspera – Rough Blazingstar Verbena urticifolia – White Vervain Lithospermum incisum – Fringed Puccoon Veronica comosa – Water Speedwell Lobelia siphilitica – Great Blue Lobelia Veronicastrum virginicum – Culver’s Root Lycopus americanus – American Bugleweed Vicia cracca – Cow Vetch * Lycopus rubellus – Water Horehound Viola sagittata – Arrow-leaved Violet Lysimachia nummularia – Moneywort * Viola sororia – Common Blue Violet Medicago lupulina – Black Medick * Viola pedata – Bird’s Foot Violet Melilotus alba – White Sweet Clover * Melilotus officinalis – Yellow Sweet Clover * Shrubs (16) 12 Native Mentha arvensis – Wild Mint Cornus rac6mosa – Gray Dogwood Mimulus ringens – Monkey Flower Cornus stolonifera – Red Osier Dogwood Monarda fistulosa – Wild Bergamot Corylus americana – American Hazelnut Myosoton aquaticum – Water Chickweed Lonicera – Honeysuckle * Nepeta cataria – Catnip * Parthenocissus quinquefolia – Virginia Creeper Oxalis stricta – Common Wood-sorrel Rhamnus cathartica – Common Buckthorn * Oxalis violacea – Violet Wood-sorrel Rhus radicans – Poison Ivy Pastinaca sativa – Wild Parsnip * Ribes missouriense – Missouri Gooseberry Physalis pubescens – Clammy Groundcherry Rosa carolina – Pasture Rose Physalis subglabrata – Tall Groundcherry Rosa multiflora – Multiflora Rose * Plantago aristata – Poor Joe Rubus allegheniensis – Common Blackberry Plantago lanceolata – English Plantain * Rubus flagellaris – Common Dewberry Plantago major – Common Plantain * Rubus occidentalis – Black Raspberry Polygala sanguinea – Field Milkwort Sambucus canadensis – Elderberry Polygonum hydropiper – Water Pepper * Symphoricarpos orbiculatus – Coralberry Polygonum persicaria – Lady’s Thumb * Viburnum opulus – European Highbush Cranberry * Polygonum scandens – Climbing False Buckwheat Vitis riparia – Riverbank Grape Potentilla recta – Rough-fruited Cinquefoil * Potentilla simplex – Common Cinquefoil Trees (14) 11 Native Pycnanthemum virginianum – Common Mountain Mint Acer negundo – Box Elder Ranunculus aboritvus – Abortive Buttercup Acer saccharinum – Silver Maple Ranunculus fascicularis – Early Buttercup Celtis occidentalis – Hackberry Ranunculus sceleratus – Cursed Buttercup Juglans nigra – Black Walnut Ratibida pinnata – Yellow Coneflower Maclura pomifera – Osage Orange * Rhus radicans – Poison Ivy Morus alba – White Mulberry * Rudbeckia laciniata – Wild Golden Glow Populus deltoides – Cottonwood Rumex acetosella – Sheep Sorrel Prunus serotina – Black Cherry Scrophularia marilandica – Late Figwort Pyrus malus – Apple * Senecio pauperculus – Balsam Ragwort Quercus macrocarpa – Bur Oak Silphium integrifolium – Rosinweed Quercus velutina – Black Oak Silphium perfoliatum – Cup Plant Salix nigra – Black Willow Smilacina stellata – Star-flowered Solomonseal Tilia americana – Basswood Smilax tamnoides var. hispida – Catbrier Ulmus rubra – Red (Slippery) Elm Page 2 of 5 Fish (8) Insects, Butterflies (continued) Campostoma anomalum – Stoneroller Pieris rapae – European Cabbage Butterfly * Catastomus commersoni – White Sucker Polygonia comma – Comma Etheostoma nigrum – Johnny Darter Polygonia interrogationis – Question Mark Moxostoma aureolum – Northern Redhorse Speyeria cybele – Great Spangled Fritillary Notropis cornutus – Common Shiner Vanessa atalanta – Red Admiral Phoxinus eos – Red-bellied Dace Vanessa cardui – Painted Lady Pimephales notatus – Blunt-nose Minnow Damselflies (6) Semotilus atromaculatus – Creek Chub Argia apicalis – Blue-fronted Dancer Argia plana – Springwater Dancer Reptiles (3) Calopteryx maculata – Ebony Jewelwing Chelydra serpentina – Snapping Turtle Ischnura hastata – Citrine Forktail Storeria dekayi dekayi – Northern Brown Snake Lestes rectangularis – Slender Spreadwing Pituophis melanoleucus – Bull Snake Ischnura verticalis – Eastern Forktail Dragonflies (10) Amphibians (6) Anax junius – Common Green Darner Bufo americana – American Toad Erythemis simplicicollis – Common Pondhawk Hyla cf. versicolor – Gray Treefrog Libellula luctuosa – Widow Skimmer Hyla crucifera – Spring Peeper Libellula pulchella – Twelve-spotted Skimmer Pseudacris t. triseriata – W. Chorus Frog Pachydiplax longipennis –Blue Dasher Rana clamitans melanota – Green Frog Perithemis tenera – Eastern Amberwing