List of Flora
for Swamps
| ––––Swamp Flora–––– | |
| Scientific Name | Common Name |
| Acer rubrum drummondii* | Drummond's Maple |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple |
| Agrimonia parviflora § | Swamp Agrimony |
| Alnus incana | Speckled Alder |
| Amsonia tabernaemontana | Bluestar |
| Aristolochia hastata * | Narrow-Leaved Snakeroot |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed |
| Asclepias perennis * | White Swamp Milkweed |
| Aster lanceolatus | Panicled Aster |
| Aster puniceus | Swamp Aster |
| Bidens discoidea | Swamp Beggar's Ticks |
| Bidens vulgata | Tall Beggar's Ticks |
| Brunnichia ovata* | Ladies' Ear-Drops |
| Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint Grass |
| Caltha palustris | Marsh Marigold |
| Calycocarpum lyonii* | Cupseed |
| Cardamine bulbosa | Spring Cress |
| Cardamine pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Bitter Cress |
| Carex amphibola | Sedge sp. |
| Carex bromoides | Brome Sedge |
| Carex conjuncta | Soft Fox Sedge |
| Carex crus-corvi | Crowfoot Sedge |
| Carex decomposita* | Cypress Knee Sedge |
| Carex folliculata | Sedge sp. |
| Carex gigantea* | Giant Sedge |
| Carex grayii | Gray's Sedge |
| Carex intumescens | Sedge sp. |
| Carex laevivaginata | Sedge sp. |
| Carex louisianica | Louisiana Sedge |
| Carex lupuliformis | Hop-Like Sedge |
| Carex lupulina | Hop Sedge |
| Carex muskingumensis | Muskingum Sedge |
| Carex oxylepis | Sedge sp. |
| Carex squarrosa | Squarrose Sedge |
| Carex tribuloides | Blunt Broom Sedge |
| Carex typhina | Cattail Sedge |
| Carya aquatica | Water Hickory |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Buttonbush |
| Chelone glabra | White Turtlehead |
| Chelone obliqua speciosa | Pink Turtlehead |
| Clematis crispa* | Blue Jasmine |
| Cinna arundinacea | Stout Wood Reed |
| Cirsium muticum | Swamp Thistle |
| Corallorhiza trifida | Early Coralroot |
| Cornus amomum* | Swamp Dogwood |
| Cornus foemina | Stiff Dogwood |
| Cornus obliqua | Silky Dogwood |
| Cornus sericea § | Red-Osier Dogwood |
| Cuscuta cephalanthi | Buttonbush Dodder |
| Cynosciadum digitatum* | Cynosciadum sp. |
| Cypripedium acaule | Pink Lady Slipper |
| Cypripedium reginae | Showy Lady Slipper |
| Dicanthelium joori (syn. Panicum commutatum joori) § | Joor's Panic Grass |
| Dicliptera brachiata* | Wild Mudwort |
| Diodia virginiana* | Large Buttonweed |
| Drosera rotundifolia § | Round-Leaved Sundew |
| Dryopteris cristata § | Crested Wood Fern |
| Dulichium arundinaceum | Three-Way Sedge |
| Epilobium coloratum | Cinnamon Willow-Herb |
| Equisteum sylvaticum | Woodland Horsetail |
| Eupatoriadelphus fistulosus | Hollow-Stemmed Joe-Pye Weed |
| Fleischmannia incarnata | Pink Thoroughwort |
| Forestiera acuminata | Swamp Privet |
| Fraxinus nigra | Black Ash |
| Fraxinus profunda* | Pumpkin Ash |
| Galium aparine | Cleavers |
| Galium asprellum | Rough Bedstraw |
| Galium obtusum | Wild Madder |
| Galium tinctorium | Stiff Bedstraw |
| Gleditsia aquatica* | Water Locust |
| Glyceria arkansana (syn. Glyceria septentrionalis arkansana) | Southern Manna Grass |
| Glyceria septentrionalis | Manna Grass |
| Glyceria striata | Fowl Manna Grass |
| Helianthus tuberosus | Jerusalem Artichoke |
| Helenium autumnale | Sneezeweed |
| Hottonia inflata* | Featherfoil |
| Hydrocotyle americana | American Pennywort |
| Hydrolea uniflora* | Mudwort |
| Hymenocallis caroliniana | Spider Lily |
| Hypericum mutilum § | Weak-Stemmed St. John's Wort |
| Hypericum ascyron | Great St. John's Wort |
| Ilex decidua* | Swamp Holly |
| Ilex verticillata | Winterberry |
| Impatiens capensis | Orange Jewelweed |
| Impatiens pallida | Yellow Jewelweed |
| Iodanthus pinnatifidus | Purple Rocket |
| Iris fulva* | Copper Iris |
| Itea virginica* | Virginia Sweetspire |
| Justicia ovata | Broad-Leaved Water Willow |
| Laportea canadensis | Wood Nettle |
| Leersia lenticularis | Catchfly Grass |
| Lemna minor | Lesser Duckweed |
| Limnobium spongia* | Sponge Plant |
| Liparis loeseli | Green Twayblade |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia |
| Ludwigia glandulosa* | False Loosestrife |
| Lycopodium dendroideum § | Ground Pine |
| Lycopus rubellus | Stalked Bugleweed |
| Lycopus uniflorus | Bugleweed sp. |
| Lysimachia ciliata | Fringed Loosestrife |
| Lysimachia radicans* | Creeping Loosestrife |
| Lysimachia thyrsifolia | Tufted Loosestrife |
| Maianthemum canadense | Canada Mayflower |
| Matteucia struthiopteris pensylvanica § | Ostrich Fern |
| Mikania scandens* | Climbing Hempweed |
| Mimulus alatus | Winged Monkeyflower |
| Muhlenbergia frondosa | Common Satin Grass |
| Nuphar advena | Spatterdock |
| Nyssa aquatica* | Water Tupelo |
| Nyssa sylvatica | Black Gum |
| Onoclea sensibilis | Sensitive Fern |
| Osmunda cinnamomea | Cinnamon Fern |
| Osmunda regalis spectabilis § | Royal Fern |
| Paspalum fluitans | Swamp Bead Grass |
| Pedicularis lanceolata § | Swamp Betony |
| Peltandra virginica | Arrow-Arum |
| Penstemon alluviorum* | Lowland Beardtongue |
| Penthorum sedoides | Ditch Stonecrop |
| Persicaria hydropiperoides | Mild Waterpepper |
| Persicaria punctata | Dotted Smartweed |
| Phlaris arundinacea | Reed Canary Grass |
| Pilea pumila | Clearweed |
| Planera americana* | Water Elm |
| Platanthera clavellata | Small Green Woodland Orchid |
| Platanthera flava | Tubercled Orchid |
| Platanthera hyperborea huronensis | Northern Green Orchid |
| Platanthera peramoena | Purple Fringeless Orchid |
| Pluchea camphorata | Camphorweed |
| Poa palustris | Marsh Bluegrass |
| Populus heterophylla | Swamp Cottonwood |
| Quercus bicolor | Swamp White Oak |
| Quercus lyrata* | Overcup Oak |
| Quercus palustris | Pin Oak |
| Ranunculus ambigens* | Water Plantain Spearwort |
| Ranunculus flabellaris | Yellow Water Crowfoot |
| Ranunculus laxicaulis* | Oblong-Leaved Spearwort |
| Ranunculus pensylvanicus | Bristly Crowfoot |
| Ranunculus pusillus* | Small Spearwort |
| Ranunculus sceleratus | Cursed Crowfoot |
| Ranunculus septentrionalis | Swamp Buttercup |
| Rhamnus alnifolia | Alder Buckthorn |
| Rhynchospora corniculata | Great Beaked Rush |
| Ribes americanum | American Black Currant |
| Ribes triste | Swamp Red Currant |
| Rosa palustris | Swamp Rose |
| Rubus hispidus § | Swamp Dewberry |
| Rubus strigosus | Wild Red Raspberry |
| Rumex altissimus | Pale Dock |
| Rumex orbiculatus | Great Water Dock |
| Rumex verticillata | Swamp Dock |
| Salix bebbiana | Bebb's Willow |
| Salix discolor | Pussy Willow |
| Salix nigra | Black Willow |
| Sambucus canadensis | Common Elderberry |
| Sambucus racemosa pubens | Red-Berried Elder |
| Samolus parviflorus | Brookweed |
| Saururus cernuus | Lizard's Tail |
| Saxifraga pensylvanica | Swamp Saxifrage |
| Scirpus atrovirens | Dark Green Bulrush |
| Scutellaria lateriflora | Mad-Dog Skullcap |
| Senecio aureus | Golden Ragwort |
| Silphium perfoliatum | Cup Plant |
| Solidago gigantea | Giant Goldenrod |
| Solidago patula | Swamp Goldenrod |
| Spermacoce glabra | Smooth Buttonweed |
| Sphagnum spp. | Sphagnum Moss |
| Stachys spp. | Bugleweed |
| Stellaria longifolia | Long-Leaved Chickweed |
| Styrax americanum | Storax |
| Symplocarpus foetidus | Skunk Cabbage |
| Taxodium distichum* | Bald Cypress |
| Thalictrum dasycarpum | Purple Meadow Rue |
| Thelypteris palustris pubescens § | Marsh Fern |
| Torreyochloa pallida (syn. Puccinellia pallida) |
Swamp Manna Grass |
| Tracaulon arifolium (syn. Polygonum arifolium) |
Halberd-Leaved Tear-Thumb |
| Tracaulon sagittatum (syn. Polygonum sagittatum) |
Tear-Thumb |
| Trachelospermum difforme* | Climbing Dogbane |
| Triadenum tubulosum* | Large Marsh St. John's Wort |
| Trepocarpus aethusae* | Trepocarpus sp. |
| Typha latifolia | Common Cattail |
| Urtica chamaedryoides* | Swamp Nettle |
| Valerianella spp. (excluding Valerianella radiata) | Corn Salad spp. |
| Veronica americana | American Speedwell |
| Viburnum trilobum | High-Bush Cranberry |
| Viola blanda | Sweet White Violet |
| Viola cucullata | Marsh Violet |
| Vitis palmata | Catbird Grape |
* swamps in southern Illinois, § sandy swamps