Flora and Fauna in the Parks This section of our website is still being actively expanded and edited. If you know of any plants or animals that you have seen in Olin or Turville Parks that we have not listed yet please send us an email so we can include these plants or animals in our inventory of the parks. Some of the links on this page will take you to other subpages on our site and other links will take you to other sites on the internet with additional information about the plant or animal. We plan to eventually include images from the park of the various plants and animals. Native Prairie Plants Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca Pale Indian Plantain Arnoglossum atriplicifolium Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa Yellow Coneflower Rudbeckia pinnata Native Woodland and Woods Edge Plants Black Raspberry Rubus occidentalis Dutchman's Breeches Dicentra cucullaria Jack-in-the-Pulpit Arisaema triphyllum Joe Pye Weed Eupatorium purpureum False Solomon Seal Smilacena racemosa Mayapple Podophyllum peltatum Shooting Star Dodecatheon Solomon SealPolygonatum biflorum Trillium Trillium grandiflorum Trout Lilly Erythronium albidum Virginia Bluebells Mertensia virginica Virginia Waterleaf (invasive) Hydrophyllum virginianum Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum Wild Ginger Asarum caudatum Wild Violet Viola sp Woodland Sedge Yellow Giant Hyssop Agastache nepetoides Native Shrubs and Trees Green Ash (invasive) Buckthorn (invasive) Honeysuckle (invasive) Non-Native Plants and Invasive Plants Plants most likely introduced by the Turvilles Daffodil Blue Silla (invasive) Invasive Plants Dames Rocket (invasive) Burdock (invasive) Virginia Waterleaf (invasive) Garlic Mustard (invasive) Alliaria petiolata Teasel (invasive) (Not seen in the park yet but approching from the Beltline area) Creeping Charlie (invasive) Buckthorn (invasive) Honeysuckle (invasive) Animals in the Park Deer Fox Raccoon Ground Hog Muskrat Turtle Squirrel Vole Birds that visit or live in the Park Great Horned Owl Woodpecker Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Malard Duck Canadian Goose |
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