Plant Species List:
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Trees
American Sycamore   (Platanus occidentalis)
Bald Cypress   (Taxodium distichum)
Box Elder   (Acer negundo)
Bur Oak
  (Quercus macrocarpa)
Catalpa
  (Catalpa bignonioides)
Chinquapin Oak   (Quercus muhlenbergii)
Eastern Cottonwood   
(Populous deltoides)
Eastern Red Cedar   
(Juniperus virginiana)
Green Ash   
(Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
Hill's Oak   
(Quercus ellipsoidalis)
Kentucky Coffeetree  
 (Gymnocladus dioica)
Northern Pecan   
(Carya illinoensis)
Ohio Buckeye
  (Aesculus glabra)
Persimmon   (Diospyros virginiana)
Pin Oak  
 (Quercus palustris)
Red Mulberry  
 (Morus rubra)
Red Oak
  (Quercus rubra)
Redbud   (Cercis canadensis)
Shagbark Hickory   
(Carya ovata)
Shingle Oak   
(Quercus imbricaria)
Shumard Oak
  (Quercus shumardii)
Silver Maple   (Acer saccharinum)
Sugar Maple   (Acer saccharum)
Swamp White Oak
  (Quercus bicolor)
Sweetgum  
 (Liquidambar styraciflua)
Tulip Poplar Tree   (Liriodendron tulipifera)
Virginia Pine   
(Pinus virginiana)
White Ash  
 (Fraxinus americana)

Shrubs
Black Willow   (Salix nigra)
Serviceberry  
 (Ameliancher canadensis)
Pagoda Dogwood   
(Cornus alternifolia)
Silky Dogwood   (Cornus amomum)
Elderberry   (Sambucus canadensis)
Spicebush   
(Lindera benzoin)
Buttonbush  
 (Cephalanthus occidentalis)

Broad-Leaf Plants / Forbs
Arrow Arum   (Peltandra virginica)
Autumn Sneezeweed   
(Helenium autumnale)
Ashy Sunflower
  (Helianthus mollis)
Black-eyed Susan  
 (Rudbeckia hirta)
Blue Flag Iris  
 (Iris virginica shrevei)
Blue Mist Flower   
(Conoclinium coelestinum)
Blue Star
  (Amsonia tabernaemontana)
Butterflyweed   
(Asclepias tuberosa)
Cardinal Flower   
(Lobelia cardinalis)
Compass Plant   (Silphium laciniatum)
Culver's Root   
(Veronicastrum virginicum)
Cup Plant
  (Silphium perfoliatum)
Dense Blazing Star   
(Liatris spicata)
False Aster
  (Boltonia asteroides)
False Sunflower  
 (Heliopsis helianthoides)
Foxglove Beardtongue
  (Penstemon digitalis)
Flowering Spurge   
(Euphorbia corollata)
Golden Alexanders
  (Zizia aurea)
Golden Ragwort   
(Senecio aureus)
Great St. John's Wort
  (Hypericum pyramidatum)
Green-Headed Coneflower   
(Rudbeckia laciniata)
Hollow Joe Pye Weed   
(Eupatorium fistulosum)
Illinios Bundleflower  
 (Desmanthus illinoensis)
Jack-in-the-Pulpit   (
Arisaema triphyllum)
Lance-Leaf Coreopsis  
 (Coreopsis lanceolata)
Broad-Leaf Plants / Forbs, cont.
Leadplant   (Amorpha canescens)
Lizard's Tail   
(Saururus cernuus)
Mountain Mint   
(Pycnanthemum virginianum)
New England Aster   
(Aster novae-angliae)
Obedient Plant
  (Phyostegia virginiana)
Orange Coneflower   (
Rudbeckia fulgida)
Pink Nodding Onion   
(Allium cernuum)
Pink Turtlehead
  (Chelone obliqua speciosa)
Prairie Coreopsis   
(Coreopsis tripteris)
Prairie Dock   
(Silphium terebinthinaceum)
Prickly Pear
  (Optunia sp.)
Purple Coneflower   
(Echinacea purpurea)
Purple Prairie Clover   (Petalostemum purpureum)
Queen-of-the-Prairie  
 (Filipendula rubra)
Rattlesnake Master   (Eryngium yuccifolium)
Rigid Goldenrod   
(Solidago rigida)
Rose Beard Tongue   
(Penstemon cobaea)
Rosinweed
  (Silphium trifoliatum)
Rough Blazing Star   
(Liatris aspera)
Round-headed Bush Clover   (
Lespedeza capitata)
Royal Catchfly
  (Silene regia)
Savanna Blazing Star  
 (Liatris scariosa neuwlandii)
Sawtooth Sunflower   
(Helianthus grosseserratus)
Sensitive Fern   (
Onoclea sensibilis)
Shooting Star  
 (Dodecatheon meadia)
Short's Aster   (Aster shortii)
Showy Sunflower   (Helianthus laetiflorus)
Skunk Cabbage   (
Symplocarpus foetidus)
Smooth Blue Aster   
(Aster laevis)
Spotted Joe-Pye Weed   (Eupatorium maculatum)
Swamp Hibiscus   (
Hibiscus moscheutos)
Swamp Millkweed  
 (Asclepias incarnata)
Swamp Saxifrage   (Saxifraga pensylvanica)
Tall Coreopsis   
(Coreopsis tripteris)
Western Sunflower   (Helianthus occidentalis)
White Turtlehead  
 (Chelone glabra)
White Wild Indigo   (Baptisia alba)
Wild Bergamot   (
Monarda fistulosa)
Wild Columbine  
 (Aquilegia canadensis)
Wild Geranium   (Geranium maculatum)
Wild Quinine   (Parthenium integrifolium)
Wild Senna   (
Senna hebecarpa)
Yellow Coneflower
  (Ratibida pinnata)

Grasses and Grass-like Plants
Big Bluestem   (Andropogon gerardii)
Canada Wildrye   (Elymus canadensis)
Eastern Gammagrass  
 (Tripsacum dactyloides)
Fox Sedge   (Carex vulpinoidea)
Giant Bur-reed   (
Sparganium eurycarpum)
Indiangrass   (
Sorghastrum nutans)
Lake Sedge   (
Carex lacustris)
Little Bluestem   (
Schizachyrium scoparium)
Northern Sea Oats
  (Chasmanthium latifolium)
Prairie Cordgrass  
 (Spartina pectinata)
River Bullrush   (
Scirpus fluviatilis)
Side-oats Gamma   (
Bouteloua curtipendula)
Softstem Bullrush
  (Scirpus validus)
Switchgrass   (Panicum virgatum)
Torry's Rush   (
Juncus torreyii)
Virginia Wildrye   (
Elymus virginicus)
Wingstem   (
Actinomeris alternifolia)
Woolgrass  
 (Scirpus cyperinus)