Kendall County Forest Preserve District
Wildflowers of Kendall County (Illinois)
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Kim Olson and Jodi Strohm for their assistance on numerous occasions in helping to find and identify plants pictured on this site. And thanks to the Master Naturalists who helped in peer reviews of the site including Jane Barnett, Joan Burden, Keriann Dubina, Pat Gunnerson, Becky Hane, Nancy Heath, Patsy Hirsch, Ryan Kriz, Paula Kosin, Emily Prasad, Kirsten Schmidt, Carolyn Smerz, Sue Styer, Gloria White, and Bill Wickers. Thanks also to Jason Pettit, Keith Tucker, Sarah Fellerer, Richard Velders and David Guritz for their support and encouragement in this project.
Thanks to Dr. John Hilty at the University of Illinois for permission to take excerpts from his plant descriptions at his Illinois Wildflowers site which has been our "go to" site when trying to verify a plant identity or find additional information.
And many thanks to my wife Kathy Mozingo for her encouragement and patience with me, waiting for me to get yet another picture and then bearing with me at the laptop for many many hours.
The primary acknowledgements of course are due to all those native plants out there that keep thriving in the face of numerous threats and keep displaying a wonder and beauty beyond words for us all to enjoy.
Ken Mozingo
References
As noted above, one of our primary references has been the Illinois Wildflowers site. We also have relied heavily on Dick Young's book Kane County Wild Plants & Natural Areas (2007). We dedicate this site in memory of Dick Young who was a resident of Kendall County and a tireless advocate for the restoration and preservation of our natural areas.
A complete list of our printed sources follows:
Coffey, T., 1993. The History and Folklore of North American Wildflowers
Kurz, Don, 2004. Illinois Wildflowers
Ladd, D. and Oberle, F., 2005. Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers
Loewer, Peter, 1996. Thoreau’s Garden, Native Plants for the American Landscape
Mohlenbrock, R.H., Spring Woodland Wildflowers of Illinois, IL Dep. Of Conservation
Mohlenbrock, R.H., Wildflowers of Fields, Roadsides and Open Habitats of Illinois
Newcomb, Lawrence, 1977. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide
Sanders, J., 2003. The Secrets of Wildflowers
Schinkel, R. and Mohrhardt, D., 1994. Favorite Wildflowers of the Great Lakes and Northeastern U.S.
Swink, F. and Wilhelm, G., 1994, Plants of the Chicago Region
Voight, John W., Mohlenbrock, R.H., Prairie Plants of Illinois, State of Illinois
Young, Dick, 2007. Kane County Wild Plants & Natural Areas, 3rd Edition
A list of links to online sites which we have used extensively follows:
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/plantfindersearch.aspx
https://www.mortonarb.org/trees-plants/tree-plant-descriptions
https://plants.usda.gov/adv_search.html
https://www.wildflower.org/plants-main
http://naeb.brit.org/ (Native American Ethnobotany database