Illinois Native Trees

It’s a perfect time to examine your trees “au naturel,” said Diane Plewa, a University of Illinois Extension diagnostic specialist “There are a number of different borers in the state, some native and others invasive,” she said. Among all the trees that glow golden in the Illinois woods in autumn, there's one that brings a hint of tropical warmth. The pawpaw, a small tree with interesting edible fruit, is the northernmost representative of the custard-apple family, which mainly If you have pecan pie for dessert at Thanksgiving or during the coming holiday season, give thanks for the pecan tree. A native tree of southern and western Illinois -- as its Latin name, Carya illinoinensis, implies -- pecan trees not only have a long How you can sustain wildlife with native plants,” I’m pondering how I can transform our current garden so that at least half of the plants are natives that originally grew in northeastern Illinois. Why is that important? Because, as Mr. Tallamy states Today less than one hundredth of one percent of the original undisturbed prairies exists in Illinois. Some of these original prairies can still be found in pioneer cemeteries, fencerows and railroad rights-of-way. Prairie plants native to Illinois are good The native plants weren’t destroyed when the Illinois Bloomington & Western tracks were laid after the Civil War. Jacob Illk furnished a team and worked on this section of line when it was built. The veteran of the war recorded in his account book he was .

The ash borer is a metallic green-colored beetle native to Asia and eastern Russia The ash borer has killed tens of millions of ash trees in Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa and Ontario, Canada. It has been reported in Eastern and Southern "I think these guys are on the cutting edge," says Bret Rappaport, an Illinois attorney and a director of Wild Ones, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit that promotes native plants and natural landscapes across the United States. Rappaport, who frequently Since both IDOT and the not-for-profit farm bureau share a portion of the land along the busy intersection, he was able to provide native prairie plants for the project. Some of them were grown by inmates from the Illinois River Correctional Center in .

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