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We’ll be keeping track of plant, insect and wildlife species on this page, including those plants in our habitat landscape plan and plants naturally occurring in the area.
Native Plants:
- rudbeckia
- pasque flower
- compass plant
- butterfly milkweed
- swamp milkweed
- dotted gayfeather
- rough gayfeather
- blue pitchers sage
- plains coreopsis
- purple coneflower
- hoary vervain
- purple poppy mallow
- common milkweed
- rough fleabane
- common yarrow
- wild violet
- white clover
- blanket flower
- little bluestem
- big bluestem
- Indian grass
- smooth aster
- prairie aster
- tall thistle
- false boneset
- prairie ragwort
- sawtooth sunflower
- Missouri goldenrod
- still goldenrod
- Canada goldenrod
- red clover
More plants in the fringes around the habitat:
- common cattail
- chicory
- northern catalpa
- peach leaf willow
- eastern cottonwood
- green ash
- yellow sweetclover
Garden plants and herbs:
- tall sedum
- penstemon ‘Husker Red’
- garden larkspur
- oregano
- dill
- basil
- parsley
- borage
- thyme
- garlic chives
Animals
- American robin
- Red-winged blackbird
- Chipping sparrow
- Cottontail rabbit
- Raccoon
- White-tailed deer
- Leopard frog
- Chinese mantis
- Downy woodpecker
- Mourning cloak butterfly
- Eastern yellow-bellied racer
- northern cardinal
- American goldfinch
- common eastern bumble bee
- northern amber bumble bee
- black and gold bumble bee
- monarch butterfly
- black swallowtail butterfly
- whitelined sphinx moth
- bull snake
The Buzz at Cherry Creek 