09/24/2022
Looking to attract more songbirds, pollinators and other wildlife to your yard? Add native trees, shrubs, and flowers! These plants naturally attract wildlife that use them as a food source, shelter and nesting materials.
Native plants for Illinois
- Trees: Wild black cherry, Flowering dogwood, Black gum, Hackberry, Shagbark hickory , Hophornbeam, Sassafras, Witch-hazel
- Shrubs: Black chokeberry, Gray dogwood, American hazelnut, Leadplant, Spicebush
- Flowers: Blazing stars, Black-eyed Susans, Coneflowers, Ironw**d, Joe-Pye w**d, Milkw**ds, Phlox, New England Aster
Explore more reasons to go native at go.illinois.edu/PlantsforWildlife.