Welcome to a brand new year and a brand new day with the premiere wildflower forecast of the 2022 growing season! Visit Chicagoland’s woodlands for our first spring blooms.

We’ve evolved. With over 1,500 followers, no longer will the scouting be done by a dedicated few. It will be done by you as part of a new crowdsourcing community. Our future will be guided by your participation and enthusiasm.

See ChicagoNatureNOW! will be featured on TV on WTTW’s “Jay’s Chicago” program beginning on March 24, 2022: The episode is “Out in Nature.”

SPRING WILDFLOWER SLIDESHOW PREVIEW

ANNUAL SEARCHING FOR SPRING ISSUE. Skunk cabbage is Chicago’s harbinger of spring. And now they’re popping up!

This is our final wildflower report of the season and our 2021 Fall Color Preview. Now is the time to experience the final blooms of the season and how their colors mix into the changing foliage or our prairies and woodlands.