Native Flowers of the Chicago Region
The WPPC is a group of native plant and gardening enthusiasts who strive to share their knowledge and expertise with anyone who will listen. This page is designed to display some of the beautiful and useful native plants that can be grown in the home garden. We also have a seminar in the spring to teach on certain subjects. Click HERE to find out more.
You can also click HERE for suggested native garden designs and plant lists.
Native Plants
Shooting Star, Dodecantheon amethystrium
Wild Bergamot, Monarda fistulosa
Sneezeweed, Helenium autumnale
Flower of Wild Ginger, Asarum canadense
Sky Blue Aster
Sharp-Lobed Hepatica, Hepatica acutiloba
Rattlesnake Master, Eryngium yuccifolium
Rue Anemone, Anemonella thalictroides
Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea
Prairie Smoke, Geum triflorum
Prairie Blazing Star, Liatris pycnostachya
Ohio Spiderwort, Tradescantia ohiensis
No. Maidenhair Fern, Adiantum pedatum
New Jersey Tea, Ceanothus americanus
Michigan/Turks Cap Lily, Lillium michiganense
Meadow Anemone, Anemone canadensis
Mayapple, Podophyllum peltatum
Large Flowered Trillium, Trillium grandiflorum
Great Blue Lobelia, Lobelia siphilitica
Field of Penstemon
Cardenal Flower, Lobelia cardinalis
Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa
Blue Phlox, Phlox divaricata
Virginia Bluebells and Celandine Poppy Mertensia virginica and Stylophorum diphyllium
Aromatic Aster, Symphyotrichum oblongifolius
Wild Rose, Rosa Setigera?
Common Boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum
Wild Petunia, Ruellia humilis
Yellow Wood Sorrel, Oxalis stricta
Slender Mountain Mint
Sweet Joe Pye Weed
Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
Wild Ginger, Asarum canadense
White Turtlehead, Chelone glabra
