Common Name

Latin Name

Tidbit/Habitat

Flower Color

American bellflower

Campanula Americana

Mesic to wet-mesic prairie and savanna

Purple

Bee balm

Monarda fistulosa

Bee and butterfly plant

Purple

Butterfly milkweed

Asclepias tuberosa

Butterfly plant

Orange

Brown eyed susan

Rudbeckia triloba

From dry to mesic prairie

Yellow

Columbine

Aquilegia canadensis

Early bloom

Pink/yellow

Culver's root

Veronicastrum virginianum

Mesic and wet-mesic prairie

White

Cut-leaf Sunflower

Rudbeckia laciniata

Mesic and wet-mesic prairie

Yellow

Dotted bee balm

Monarda punctata

Dry-mesic and mesic prairie

Purple/yellow

False sunflower

Heliopsis helianthoides

Dry-mesic savanna and woodland

Yellow

Marsh blazing star

Liatris spicata

Butterfly plant; plant of concern

Purple/pink

Pale Purple coneflower

Echinacea pallida

Butterfly plant; plant of concern

Pale purple

Mountain Mint

Pycnantheumum virginianum

Mesic and wet-mesic prairie

White

Prairie Blazing star

Liatris pycnostachya

Butterfly plant

Purple

Prairie Dock

Silphium terebinthinaceum

Mesic prairie

Yellow

Rattlesnake master

Eryngium yuccifolium

Mesic and wet-mesic prairie; plant of concern

White

Rosinweed

Silphium asteriscus

Dry-mesic prairie

Yellow

Rough blazing star

Liatris aspera

Butterfly plant

Purple/pink

Shooting star

Dodeocatheon meadii

Dry and dry-mesic prairie and savanna

Pink/white

Showy goldenrod

Solidago speciosa

Dry and dry- mesic priaire

Yellow

Swamp milkweed

Asclepias incarnata

Butterfly plant

Pink/red

Sweet Black-eyed Susan

Rudbeckia subtomentosa

Mesic and wet-mesic prairie

Yellow

Western sunflower

Helianthus occidentalis

Dry prairie

Yellow

Wild geranium

Geranium maculatum

Savanna, Woodland, Forest

Pink/purple

Wild quinine

Parthenium integrifolium

Dry and dry-mesic prairie

White

Wild White Indigo

Baptisia alba

Dry-mesic prairie

White

Big bluestem - grass

Andropogon gerardii

Dry-mesic to wet-mesic prairie

Green

Little bluestem – grass

Scizachrius scoparium

Dry and dry-mesic prairie

Green

Bottle brush

Hystrix patula

Woodland and savanna

Green

Indian grass

Sorghastrum nutans

All

Green