Final list of plant candidates for the native plants garden
at the site of the former play lot in Margate Park.
Delivered to the Department of Natural Resources
in the Chicago Park District on 4/12/05
Flowering Plants with desired count:
- (12) Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
- (12) Aromatic Aster (Aster oblongifolius)
- (12) New England Aster (Aster novae-angliae)
- (12) Smooth Blue Aster (Aster azureus)
- (30) Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
- (30) Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pallida)
- (30) Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
- (15) Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
- (70) Flowering Spurge (Euphorbia corollata)
- (30) Rough Blazing Star (Liatris aspera)
- (30) Prairie Blazing Star (Liatris pycnostachya)
- (50) Purple Prairie Clover (Petalostemum purpureum)
- (50) Yellow (Gray-headed) Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
- (50) Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- (8) Prairie Dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum)
- (30) Stiff Goldenrod (Solidago rigida)
- (25) spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis)
Grasses/Sedges
- (18) Little Bluestem (Schizachrium scoparium)
- (35) Prairie Sedge/Copper-shouldered Oval (Carex bicknellii)
- (30) Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans)
- (50) Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)