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Illinois Native Plant Guide (NPG)
(Revised 5/2004)

Table of Contents
The Native Plant Guide is available online in HTML and downloadable formats for your viewing convenience.

Cover and Spines
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 npg_cvrspn.pdf [PFD]

Preface
Acknowledgements
Effective Protection with Visual Appeal
Root Systems of Prairie Plants
Plant Zone Schematic
Introduction and Purpose
Information Sources
Native Plant Applications for Streams and Stormwater Facilities
General Design, Application, and Management Considerations
Figures 1 & 2
Suggested Plant Species Mixes for Stormwater Applications
Species Information Summary Table
Categories of Information Presented for Each Species

Native Plant Species (Pages 30-93)
Sweet Flag
Common Water Plantain
Big Bluestem
Smooth Blue Aster
Panicled Aster
New England Aster
Nodding Beggarsticks
Common Beggarsticks
Side-Oats Grama
Blue Joint Grass
Bristly Sedge
Crested Oval Sedge
Pale Sedge
Wooly Sedge
Awl-fruited Sedge
Fox Sedge
Hackberry
Common Buttonbush
Tall Coreopsis
Gray Dogwood
Red Osier Dogwood
Field Nut Sedge
Blunt Spike Rush
Creeping Spike Rush
Nodding Wild Rye
Virginia Wild Rye
Spotted Joe Pye Weed
Common Boneset
Green Ash
Fowl Manna Grass
Common Sneeze Weed
Sawtooth Sunflower

Native Plant Species (Pages 94-161)
Blue Flag Iris
Common Rush
Torrey’s Rush
Rice Cut Grass
Wild Bergamot
Switch Grass
Purple Prairie Clover
Water Smartweed
Common Mountain Mint
Swamp White Oak
Bur Oak
Pin Oak
Yellow Cone Flower
Black-Eyed Susan
Broadleaf Arrowhead
Peachleaf Willow
Black Willow
Little Bluestem
Hardstem Bulrush
Chairmaker’s Rush
River Bulrush
Soft-stem Bulrush
Compass Plant
Prairie Dock
Late Goldenrod
Stiff Goldenrod
Indian Grass
Prairie Cordgrass
Spiderwort
Blue Vervain
Common Iron Weed
Arrow Wood Viburnum
Nannyberry

Appendices

A - Contacts for Further Information
B - List of Native Plant Material Vendors
C - Prescribed Burn Contractor List (revised 3/06)
D - Natural Areas Contractor List (revised 3/06)
E - Wetland and Natural Areas Consultant List (revised 3/06)
F - Illustration Credits

Glossary of Terms
Bibliography


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General Information Contact:
Kent Sims
kent.sims@il.usda.gov

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For Hard Copies of the Native Plant Guide:
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