First Nations Garden
Subject: First Nations Garden Mounds and Native Plants (macro photography)
Location: Chicago, IL (Albany Park)
Date: 07/28/2024
Camera: Fuji X-T4
Learn about the First Nations Garden.
Native Plants
Common Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)
Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum)
Tall Boneset (Eupatorium altissimum)
Sweet Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba)
Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium maculatum)
Tall Bellflower (Campanula americana)
Yellow (Grey-Headed) Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
Canada Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis)
Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
Golden Alexander (Zizia aurea)
Northern Tobacco
Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Sunflower
Tall Coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris)
Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Hidatsa Shield Beans
Biennial Bee Blossom (Oenothera gaura)
Prairie Sage (Artemisia ludoviciana)
Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pallida)
Lemon Velvet Queen Sunflower
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
Lemon Bee Balm (Monarda citriodora)
Canada Milk Vetch (Astragalus canadensis)
Prairie Blazing Star (Liatris pycnostachya)
Pale Indian Plantain (Arnoglossum atriplicifolium)
Shrubby St. John’s Wort (Hypericum prolificum)
Illinois Bundle Flower (Desmanthus illinoensis)
Showy Tick Trefoil (Desmodium canadense)
Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia humifusa)
Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens)
Insects
Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus)
Planting Mounds
Chi-Nations directly manages the planting mounds. Each of the three mounds contains different Native plants. Our mounds were developed as a teaching aid to help revitalize Indigenous cultivation while providing substance for many pollinators. (Except from the First Nations Garden website.)
Photographs
Creative Commons License
This work by David Bernie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You may download, share, and post the images under the condition that the works are attributed to the artist.
