Green Landscaping: Greenacres
Native Wildlife Plants

By incorporating native plants into your landscape you will attract a wider variety of birds, insects and maybe even mammals such as those depicted in these photos. Some of the species are rare or endangered. So as you can see, using native plants in your landscaping can enhance biodiversity.

Bee on a Sunflower  (Helianthus grosseserratus) Wolf Road Prairie, Illinois Image Courtesy of Save the Prairie Society	Swallowtail Butterfly Image Courtesy of  Save the Prairie Society
Bluebird on Nesting Box Lyons Woods, Illinois For more information on bluebirds, visit the Chicago Academy of Sciences site	Prairie White-Fringed Orchid  (Habenaria leucohaea) Northeast Illinois The prairie white-fringed orchid is  a federally endangered species.

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