Natural divisions of illinois

1. The Natural Divisions of Illinois Christopher David Benda

2. Plant Ecologist Illinois Natural History Survey President Illinois Native Plant Society Instructor, Flora of Southern Illinois Southern Illinois University Instructor, Tree ID and Ecology The Morton Arboretum Technical Expert Consultant Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board CHRISTOPHER DAVID BENDA

3. Illinois Botanizer botanizer@gmail.com www.facebook.com/illinoisbotanizer www.illinoisbotanizer.blogspot.com www.illinoisbotanizer.com

4. Illinois Native Plant Society www.ill-inps.org

5. INPS Wildflower Guidebooks

6. Master Naturalist Outline Illinois Natural Areas Inventory Illinois Nature Preserves Commission Natural Divisions of Illinois Natural Communities of Northeastern Illinois

7. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory (INAI) Category I – High Quality Natural Communities Category II – Threatened and Endangered Species Category III – Natural Preserve Category IV – Geologic Features Category VI – Unusual Concentration of Flora or Fauna (High Quality Streams)

8. 0.07% in a natural condition

9. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory Category I – High Quality Natural Communities

10. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory Category II - Threatened and Endangered Species

11. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory Category III – Nature Preserves

12. Natural Areas vs. Nature Preserves Illinois Natural Areas Inventory Natural Area = meaningless to landowner Nature Preserve = highest protection by law landowner gives up a majority of their rights and land is protected in perpetuity 1st Illinois Nature Preserve Illinois Beach State Park Tell story of Bohm Woods site

13. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory Category IV – Outstanding Geological Features

14. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory Category VI – Unusual Concentration of Flora or Fauna and High Quality Streams Unique Ecological Features Unique Floral Assemblages Outstanding Invertebrate Cave Faunas Large Bat Hibernacula Other Unique Faunal Assemblages High Quality Streams (mussels)

15. Timber Rattlesnakes – rookery (vs. den)

16. Original Inventory Photo credit – Randy Nyboer

17. Why Update? •New science regarding natural community classification •Better remote sensing capabilities and GIS data •Focus on small and rare communities •Restoration, management, and recovery •Train a team of Natural Area Specialists for the state

19. Site Selection - INAI •Historical and Current Aerial Photos •Soil and Topographic Maps •Literature Search •Database/File Sources •Interviews with knowledgeable professionals

23. Nomination Packets

24. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory the numbers: 19 counties 687 total sites 305 IGS sites 204 visited 50 new sites nominated

25. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory the numbers: 33,727 photos taken 56,828 miles driven 632/984 days in the field

26. Illinois Natural Divisions 1. Wisconsin Driftless 2. Rock River Hill Country 3. Northeastern Morainal 4. Grand Prairie 5. Upper Mississippi/Illinois River Bottomlands 6. Illinois/Mississippi River Sand Areas 7. Western Forest-Prairie 8. Middle Mississippi Border 9. Ozarks 10. Southern Till Plain 11. Wabash Border 12. Lower Mississippi River Bottomlands 13. Shawnee Hills 14. Coastal Plain

27. Illinois Glaciation

28. Presettlement Forest and Prairie in Illinois

29. Illinois Natural Divisions 1. Wisconsin Driftless 2. Rock River Hill Country 3. Northeastern Morainal 4. Grand Prairie 5. Western Forest-Prairie 6. Illinois/Mississippi River Sand Areas 7. Upper Mississippi/Illinois River Bottomlands 8. Middle Mississippi Border 9. Lower Mississippi River Bottomlands 10. Southern Till Plain 11. Wabash Border 12. Ozarks 13. Shawnee Hills 14. Coastal Plain

30. Apple River Canyon Nature Preserve

31. Bird’s-eye Primrose (Primula mistassinica), IL-E

32. Charles Mound – Illinois High Point, 1257 feet

34. Nachusa Grasslands

35. Nachusa Grasslands

36. Rock River

37. Rock River

38. Pine Rock Nature Preserve

40. Moraine Hills State Park, Kettle Moraine Nature Preserve

41. Moraine Hills State Park, Kettle Moraine Nature Preserve

42. Glacial Park

43. Glacial Park

44. Cap Sauer’s Nature Preserve

45. Other Unique Illinois Natural Communities •Calcareous Fen •Forest Fen •Seeps and Springs •Bog •Panne •Beach/Foredune •Northern Flatwoods •Savanna •Gravel Hill Prairie •Dolomite Prairie

46. 0.07% in a natural condition

47. Calcareous Fen

48. Lesser Fringed Gentian (Gentianopsis virgata)

49. Kalm’s Lobelia (Lobelia kalmii)

50. Valerian – Valeriana edulis

51. Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia glauca)

52. White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)

53. False Asphodel (Tofieldia glutinosa), IL-T

54. Lake in the Hills Fen Nature Preserve

55. Forested Fen

56. Seeps and Springs

57. Seeps and Springs

58. Volo Bog Nature Preserve

59. Snake-mouth Orchid (Pogonia ophioglossoides), IL-E

60. Water Arum (Calla palustris), IL-E

61. Leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata), IL-T

62. Illinois Beach Nature Preserve

63. Panne Cladium mariscoides

64. Beach/Foredune

65. Beach/Foredune

66. Seaside Spurge (Chamaesyce polygonifolia), IL-E

67. Sea Rocket (Cakile edentula), IL-T

68. Pitcher’s Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri), Fed-T, IL-T

69. Kalm’s St. Johnswort (Hypericum kalmianum), IL-E

70. Marsh

71. Blue-spotted Salamander – Ambystoma laterale

72. Blanding’s Turtle – Emydoidea blandingii

73. Montrose Beach

74. Scarlet Smartweed (Persicaria coccinea)

75. Lakeside Ravines

77. Maidenhair Fern – Adiantum pedatum

79. Dolomite Prairie

80. Leafy Prairie Clover (Dalea foliosa), Fed-E, IL-E

81. Quillwort (Isoetes butleri), IL-E

82. Slender Sandwort (Minuartia patula), IL-T

83. Lakeside Daisy (Tetraneuris herbacea), Fed-T, IL-E

84. Car0lina Anemone (Anemone caroliniana)

85. Lockport Prairie Nature Preserve

86. Northern Flatwoods

87. Northern Flatwoods

88. Cousin It Sedge (Carex bromoides), IL-T

89. Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora)

90. Busse Forest Nature Preserve

91. Gravel Prairie

92. Gravel Prairie

93. Savanna

94. Savanna

95. Sweet Fern (Comptonia peregrina), IL-E

96. Pale Vetchling (Lathyrus ochroleucus), IL-T

97. Savanna Blazing Star (Liatris scariosa var. nieuwlandii), IL-T

98. Palatine Prairie Nature Preserve

99. Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea)

100. Prairie Gentian (Gentiana puberulenta)

101. Somme Prairie Nature Preserve

102. Prairie Lily (Lilium philadelphicum)

103. White Lady Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium candidum), IL-T

104. Grass Pink Orchid (Calopogon tuberosus), IL-E

105. Oklahoma Grass Pink Orchid (Calopogon oklahomensis), IL-E

106. Calopogon oklahomensis vs. tuberosus)

107. Oval-leaved Milkweed (Asclepias ovalifolia), IL-E BREAK

109. Grand Prairie Division

110. Munson Pioneer Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve

111. Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid (Platanthera leucophea), Fed-E, IL-E

112. Grundy County

113. Queen-of-the-Prairie (Filipendula rubra), IL-E

114. Loda Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve

115. Loda Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve Ceanothus americanus

116. Loda Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve Prairie Cicada

117. Prospect Cemetery Nature Preserve

118. Prospect Cemetery Nature Preserve

119. Kankakee Mallow (Iliamna remota), IL-E

120. Revis Hill Prairie Nature Preserve

121. Brownfield Woods Nature Preserve

122. Spitler Woods Nature Preserve

123. Spitler Woods Nature Preserve

124. Spitler Woods Nature Preserve Mertensia virginica

127. Ayers Sand Prairie Nature Preserve Krigia virginica

128. Ayers Sand Prairie Nature Preserve Viola pedata

129. Ayers Sand Prairie Nature Preserve Nuttallanthus canadensis

130. Broomrape (Orobanche ludoviciana), IL-T

131. Henry Allan Gleason Nature Preserve

132. Sand Prairie Scrub Oak Nature Preserve

133. Sand Prairie Scrub Oak Nature Preserve

134. Illinois Chorus Frog – Pseudacris illinoensis

136. Mississippi Palisades State Park Sentinel Nature Preserve Pellaea glabella

137. Mississippi Palisades State Park Sentinel Nature Preserve Trillium grandiflorum

138. Red Trillium (Trillium erectum), IL-E

139. Jeweled Shooting Star (Dodecatheon amethystinum)

140. Mattheissen State Park Starved Rock State Park

141. Starved Rock State Park

143. Pere Marquette State Park

146. Henry Eilers Shoal Barrens Nature Preserve

147. Bunchflower (Melanthium virginicum), IL-T

148. Post Oak Flatwoods

150. Middlefork Woods Nature Preserve

151. Howard’s Hollow Seep Nature Preserve

152. Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)

153. Beall Woods Nature Preserve

156. Piney Creek Ravine Nature Preserve

157. Piney Creek Ravine Nature Preserve

158. LaRue Pine Hills

159. Short-leaf Pine – Pinus echinata

160. LaRue Pine Hills – Snake Road

161. Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)

162. Cave Salamander (Eurycea lucifuga)

163. Long-tail Salamander (Eurycea longicauda)

164. Zigzag Salamander – Plethodon dorsalis

165. Wild Azalea - Rhododendron prinophyllum

166. Red Buckeye – Aesculus pavia

167. Cleft Phlox – Phlox bifida

168. Dwarf Larkspur– Delphinium tricorne

169. Celandine Poppy – Stylophorum diphyllum

170. Berryville Shale Glade Nature Preserve

171. Berryville Shale Glade Nature Preserve

174. French’s Shooting Star (Dodecatheon frenchii), IL-T

175. Puttyroot Orchid (Aplectrum hyemale) Cranefly Orchid (Tipularia discolor)

176. Little Grand Canyon

177. Bishop’s Cap (Mitella diphylla)

178. Partidge-berry (Mitchella repens)

179. Sphagnum Moss (Sphagnum compactum)

180. Walking Fern (Asplenium rhizophyllum)

181. Shining Clubmoss (Huperzia lucidula)

182. Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis)

183. Forbe’s Saxifrage – Saxifraga forbesii

184. Bell Smith Springs

185. Bell Smith Springs - Natural Bridge

186. Small-flowered Fameflower (Phemeranthus parviflorus), IL-T

187. Wild Orpine (Sedum telephioides), IL-T

188. Lusk Creek Canyon Nature Preserve – Indian Kitchen

189. Simpson Township Barrens

190. Simpson Township Barrens

191. Timber Rattlesnake – Crotalus horridus

192. Timber Rattlesnakes number seen: 10

193. Mead’s Milkweed (Asclepias meadii), Fed-T, IL-E

194. Cave Creek Glade Nature Preserve – June 2010

195. Cave Creek Glade Nature Preserve – June 2011 FGB = Full Glorious Bloom

196. Pale Purple Coneflower - Echinacea simulata

197. Pale Purple Coneflower - Echinacea simulata

198. Blue Sage (Salvia azurea var. grandiflora), IL-T

199. Crested Coralroot Orchid (Hexalectris spicata), IL-E

200. Climbing Milkweed (Matelea obliqua), IL-T

203. Heron Pond Nature Preserve

204. Heron Pond Nature Preserve

205. Heron Pond – Upper Cache RiverPurple Fringeless Orchid (Platanthera peramoena)

206. Yellow Lady Slipper Orchid – Cypripedium pubescens

207. Deer Pond Nature Preserve

208. Tuberculed Orchid (Platanthera flava var. flava), IL-T

209. White Swamp Milkweed – Asclepias perennis

210. Big Cypress Access

211. Buttonland Swamp

212. Boss Island – Little Black Slough Nature Preserve

213. Cretaceous Hills Ecological Area Platanthera laceraSolidago patula

214. Meadow Beauty (Rhexia virginica)

215. Whorled Pagonia Orchid – Isotria verticillata

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