Plants > Flowering Plants
White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra) is a whimsical, uniquely architectural wetland wildflower native to the damp meadows and shaded stream banks of eastern North America. Named for its bizarre, snapdragon-like blossoms that uncannily resemble the open beak or head of a...
Plants > Flowering Plants
The Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) is universally acclaimed as one of the most vividly, intensely brilliant native wildflowers in North America. Named for the blazing scarlet robes worn by Roman Catholic cardinals, this regal wetland perennial erupts in late...
Reptiles > Non-venomous Snakes
Kirtland’s Snake (Clonophis kirtlandii) is one of the rarest, most secretive, and most vulnerable colubrid snakes in North America. Endemic to the historic prairie wetland belt of the Midwest, this shy, docile serpent features a modest, keeled grey-brown dorsal...
Plants > Milkweeds & Wildflowers
Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), also celebrated as Rose Milkweed, is a magnificent, native perennial wildflower that lights up the freshwater marshes and wet meadows of North America with vibrant, fragrant clusters of rose-pink blossoms. An indispensable...
