Tools: Plants – Native, Exotic, Invasive

Native Plants: Importance and Decline

• Impact of Native Plants on Bird and Butterfly Biodiversity in Suburban Landscapes (Tallamy et al)
• California Rare Plant Rescue
• USDA Hardiness Zone interactive maps
• Plants for a Future
• Why Native Plants Matter – Audubon
• 5 Reasons Native Plants Help You Save Money and the Planet – ASLA
• “Landscaping with Native Plants” – EPA
• “Attractive, climate-adapted and sustainable? Public perception of non-native planting in the designed urban landscape” (Scientific Direct)
• “How (and Why) to Use Native Plants” (New York Times)
• Applying Ecological Design: Native Plants – ASLA

Loss of Native Plants

• Rapid Loss of Native Plants
• Four Ways to Reduce the Loss of Native Plants and Animals from Our Cities and Towns – The Nature of Cities
• Plants in Peril
• “How Cities Drive Plants Extinct” (BBC)

Plant ID and Nomenclature

• Guide to Latin Plant Names
• Go Botany
• Botanical Society of America
• Planting Science

Native Plant Databases

Find the right plants for your place

USA National Native Plant Data Bases

• USDA PLANTS
• Audubon
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
• A Guide to Native Plant Gardening
• National Wildlife Federation
• Xerces – Pollinator Friendly Plants
• Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes
• Biota of North America Program
• Pollinator Partnership
• PlantNative
• Grow Native
• American Horticultural Society – Native Plant Societies
• The Meadow Project
• MARSB
• The National Gardening Association Plant Database

US Regional Native Plant Databases

Northeast

• Native Plant Trust
• Native Plant List for Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
• Go Botany
• East Coast Native Azaleas

Mid-Atlantic

• Native Plant Materials and Use and Commercial Availability
• Nuts for Natives
• Bowman Hill Wildflower Preserve Native Plant Profiles

Southeast

• US FWS Native Plants for Your Backyard
• Native Milkweed Plants of Louisiana

Lower Midwest

• Grow Native Plant Database

Southwest

Pacific Northwest

West

STATE Native Plant Databases

Native Plant Clubs and Organizations

• Wild Ones
• American Horticultural Society, Native Plant Societies Database
• North American Native Plant Society, Native Plant Societies Database
• Grow Native Massachusetts
• Center for Plant Conservation
• Grow Native! Missouri
• Indiana Native Plants Society
• California Native Plant Society
• Florida Native Plant Society
• Center for Plant Conservation – Rare Plant Database
• North American Native Plant Society
• Grow Wild
• Plant Native

Native Plant Propagation

• The Young Propagators’ Society

Native Plant Seeds

• Organic Seed Alliance
• The Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank

Exotics, Invasives, and Weeds

• Effects of Nonnative Plants on Bird Communities in Suburban Forest Fragments
• “Invasive Plants Are NOT for the Birds” (Audobon)
• “How Non-Native Plants Are Contributing to a Global Insect Decline” (Yale e360)
• “Do non‐native plants contribute to insect declines?” (Ecological Entomology)
• “Nonnative plants reduce population growth of an insectivorous bird” (PNAS)
• “Consequences of exotic host use: impacts on Lepidoptera and a test of the ecological trap hypothesis” (Oecologia)
• USDA Invasives Control Mechanisms

Weeds

• Weed ID tool (Rutgers)
• Is This Plant a Weed? (UMN)
• Federal Noxious Weeds List
• Weed ID and Management (UC Davis)
• Weed ID tool (University of Illinois)
• “Reducing weeds: a 101 on soil solarization, with Sonja Birthisel” (A Way to Garden)
• Do Weeds Matter for Biodiversity?
• “All those ‘weeds’ add up to a lot of urban biodiversity” (envirobites)
• Weed Science Society of America (WSSA)
• Organic Weed Control for Lawns

• Native Plants: Importance and Decline
• Plant ID and Nomenclature
• Native Plant Databases
• Native Plant Clubs and Organizations
• Exotics, Invasives, and Weeds