Chicago Nature Now! Alert
June 23, 2016

Right now, Bluff Spring Fen is the place to visit. Watch this video to learn about what you’ll see:

Here’s what’s happening in Chicago nature, Right Now!:

Bluff Spring Fen in Elgin, Illinois is the best preserve to visit at the moment. It offers flowers like the fragrant pasture rose, foxglove beardtongue, pale purple coneflower, porcupine grass, prairie coreopsis, leadplant, and wild quinine.

Fermilab Prairie in Batavia, Illinois for foxglove beardtongue and miraculous melting spiderwort.

Shoe Factory Road Prairie in Hoffman Estates, Illinois for prairie coreopsis, and leadplant, and porcupine grass. Click here to read more about this wondrous plant here. This hill prairie is going to be in fantastic bloom next week.

—Mike