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PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO 14-3259
PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
NATIVE PLANT REQUIREMENTS
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Section 126-64 of the Cook County Code, is hereby amended as Follows:
Sec. 126-64. Selection, installation and maintenance of plant material.
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(d) In addition to the requirements set forth in this section with respect to utilization and maintenance of plant material in landscape plans, plant material utilized to conform with the requirements contained in this section shall be selected from a list of approved native plants that can be found at http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/. Utilized native plants shall be maintained in proper condition and shall be replaced with similar native plants, as necessary. Native plants are plants that flourish and thrive with little assistance in Cook County and that were known to be growing wild in the area when scientific collection first began.
Invasive plants may not be utilized. A list of invasive plants that may not be utilized, and alternatives that may be utilized, is set forth in the table below:
Plants with a dash under the "alternatives" column are not commonly used ornamentally. You can find more information on alternatives at Illinois' Best Plants or www.bestplants.org.
HERBACEOUS PLANTS
Species
Common Name
Status
Alternatives
Aegopodium podagraria
Goutweed
R
Asarum (wild ginger), Epimedium spp. (barrenwort), Glandularia canadensis (mock rose vervain), Hosta (hosta)
Alliaria petiolata
Garlic mustard
R
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Arctium minus
Lesser burdock
R
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Carduus nutans
Nodding plumeless thistle
R
Echinacea spp. (coneflower), Silphium spp. (rosinweed, prairie dock, compass plant)
Centaurea maculosa
Spotted knapweed
R
Echinacea spp. (coneflower), Silphium spp. (rosinweed, prairie dock, compass plant)
Cirsium arvense
Canada thistle
R
Echinacea spp. (coneflower), Silphium spp. (rosinweed, prairie dock, compass plant)
Cirsium palust...
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