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Grant Park BioBlitz Results
Thank you to all the volunteers who made the Grant Park BioBlitz a great
success! If you missed the BioBlitz, an explanation of the event and
the results follow.
The Idea: To
organize the natural history talents of the top scientists and naturalists
of our community along with the aid of backyard naturalists, public
volunteers, and participants to document the biodiversity present in Grant
Park.
The Mission: Count as many
species from as many taxonomic groups as possible in a 24-hour period.
Grant Park Species Inventory
Kingdom Plantae
Location: Upper Prairie/wet meadow
1. Grey Headed Coneflower
2. Compass Plant
3. Purple
Prairie clover
4. Little bluestem
5. Indian grass
6. Red Clover
7. Sweet Clover-yellow
8. Potato vine
9. Purple coneflower
10. White Ash Sapling
11. Dandelion
12.
Dogbane
13. Tick Trefoil
14. Oxeye daisy
15. Ohio Spiderwort
16. Butterfly milkweed
17. Prairie dock
18. Black-eyed Susan
19.
Queen Anne’s lace
20. New England Aster
21. Black medic
22. Poison
ivy
23. Tall fescue
24. Oxeye
25. Rattle Snake Master
26.
Ragweed
27. Daisy Fleabane
28. Ironweed
29. Common cinquefoil
30. Narrow leaved goldenrod
31. Multiflora rose
32. White clover
33. Wild onion
34. Kentucky bluegrass
35. Big bluestem
36. Liatris
blazing star - liatrus pycnostachia
37. Blackberry/raspberry
38.
Canada goldenrod
39. Liatris Blazing star - liatris spicata
40.
Timothy grass
41. swamp thistle
42. wild strawberry
43. St
Johnswort
44. Common white yarrow
45. Slender rush
46. Horsenettle
47. Common milkweed
48. Oriental bittersweet
49. Smooth brome
50.
Squaw root - Conopholis americana
51. Wild ginger
52. Bloodroot
53.
Stinging nettle
Trees
1.
Sugar Maple Acer - saccharum
2. Rock Elm - Ulmus thomasii
3. Ohio Buckeye - Aesculus glabra
4. Honey Locust - Gleditsia
triacanthos
5. Black walnut - Juglans nigra
6. Box
Elder Acer - negundo
7. Slippery Elm - Ulmus rubra
8.
Tree of Heaven - Ailanthus altissima
9. Sycamore - Platonis
occidentalis
10. Cottonwood - Populus deltoides
11. Eastern red cedar
- Juniperus virginiana
12. Wild Black Cherry - Prunus seratina
13. Paw
Paw - Asimina triloba
14. Red Bud - Cercis canadensis
15. Red mulberry
- Morus rubra
16. Norway spruce - Picea abies
17. Ironwood - Ostrya
virginiana
18. Shagbark hickory - Carya ovata
19. Bush honeysuckle
20. Hawthorne
21. Crab Apple
22. Autumn olive
23. Buckthorn
Kingdom Fungi
1. Tree ears -
Auricularia auricula
2. Scarlet Cup fungi - Sarcoscypha coccinea
3. Coral Fungi
4. Turkey Tails - Trametes versicolor
Mammals
1. White tailed deer
2. Ground Hog
3. Muskrat
4. Grey Squirrel
5.
Raccoon
6. Brown Bat
7. Eastern Cottontail
Birds
1. Eastern wood peewee
2. Indigo bunting
3. Tree swallow
4. Cardinal
5. Pileated woodpecker - Dryocopus pileatus
6. Red-bellied
woodpecker
7. Chickadee
8. Mallard
9. Red Eyed
Vireo
10. White breasted nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis
11. Common
Grackle - Quiscalus quiscula
12. Chimney swift
13. Baltimore oriole
14. Scarlet Tanager
15. Blue gray gnatcatcher
16. Song sparrow
17. European starling
18. Tufted titmouse
19. Goldfinch
20. Acadian
flycatcher
21. Great blue heron
22. Bluebird
23. Field sparrow
24. Yellow-throated warbler
Reptiles and
Amphibians
1. American toad
2. Green frog
3. Bullfrog
4. Black Rat Snake
5. Queen Snake
6. Watersnake
7. Eastern Box Turtle
Arthropods and Lepidoptera
1.
Black Swallowtail - Papilio polyxenes
2. Cabbage butterfly -
Pieris rapae
3. Alfalfa butterfly - Colias eurytheme
4.
Cloudless sulphur - Phoebis sennae eubule
5. Spring azure -
Celastrina Iadon complex
6. Great spangled fritillary - Speyeria
cybele
7. Meadow fritillary - Boloria bellona
8. Pearl
Crescent - Phyciodes tharos
9. Question mark - Polygonia
interrogationis
10. Mourning Cloak - Nymphalis antiopa
11. Little wood
satyr - Megisto cymela
12. Monarch Danaus - plexippus
13.
Silver-spotted skipper - Epargyreus clarus
14. Northern cloudy wing -
Thorybes pylades
15.
Plume Moth - Hellinsia sp.
16.
Confused Eusarca
Moth - Eusarca confusaria
17. Isabella Tiger Moth - Pyrrharctia Isabella
18. Prominent moth - Notodontidae – Heterocampa sp.
19.
Common Gray Moth
- Anavitrinella pampinaria
20. Tortricid moth - Eucosma sp.
21.
Delicate Cycnia - Cynia tenera
22. White marked tussock moth caterpillar
- Hemerocampa leucostigma
Miscellaneous
Invertebrates
1. Tree Spider - Tetra agnathic
2.
Little red or metallic crab spider - Philodromus marxi
3. Fishing
Spider
4. Crayfish
5. Dermesid beetle
6.
Tiger Beetle
7. Predatory Diving Beetle
8. Water penny
9. Cranefly larva
10. Dragonfly larva
11. Caddisfly larva
12. Big
apple snail
13. Flatworm
14. Leech
15. Cricket
16. Ebony
jewelwing damselfly
17. Widow skimmer
18. Common White tail dragonfly
19. Blue green darner
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