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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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