Native range
Native plants of Illinois
177 wild species and 19 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Illinois, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 133 garden forms of them are listed apart on the first page, each naming its wild parent.
Showing 61 to 120 of 196 plants
How this list is made
Derived from each plant's native-range record, checked against Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS with every decision on a ledger; Illinois is read off the record's own range, and the order is how many of the state's counties record each plant, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 196 plants, 183 have been checked against outside sources (2 fully verified); the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
Range data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 4.0, adapted) and USDA PLANTS. How the native range is credited.
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