But know that most of the swamp rose mallow should be blooming by the ... but it doesn’t function.) Put in the Kankakee River and meander to the left. If you paddle right, you’ll go under ...

This small corner of the Kankakee River now adds another rare treat. Thousands of native hibiscus flowers known as the swamp rose mallow have just burst into full blossom with large white and pink ...

Friends of Langham Island had what seemed a nice surprise when they returned to the Kankakee River isle for another ... be the endangered native Kankakee mallow, known to grow in nature only ...

“It only grows in one place, its native habitat 20-acre Langham Island in the Kankakee River,” he says. “But no one was sure it was still there.” And so did the mallow become his ...

Draining the Kankakee Marsh ... help pay for draining the swamp. It was ambitious, yet misguided. Understanding it requires a short geology lesson. In Indiana, the river bed was sandy.

He took this adventure to the mysterious Kankakee River and was eager ... They live in crude shacks in the river woods or on the edges of a swamp." Every year after that, for quite a few years ...

After Northwest Indiana was surveyed in 1834, it took 24 years for the first shovel to dig in along the Kankakee River, a river that ... more than 400,000 acres of swamp and marshland and freeing ...

Bev J. A: The Kankakee mallow is endemic to the islands near the Kankakee River State Park and is a protected species. "Endemic" means this is the only known habitat of the plant. Occasionally ...