Learn

Check out our list of native plant sources for NW Ohio and SE Michigan

Find the plants that are native to your area using the Native Plant Finder on the website of the National Wildlife Federation. It allows you to enter your zip code, and then — get this! — it gives you a list of native plants ranked in order by the number of butterfly and moth species that use them as host plants for their caterpillars!

Check out the Clear Choices Clean Water campaign to find out why natives are important!

Nature Scoop Newsletter – Toni Stahl works as part of a team of National Wildlife Federation volunteers to help the general public create wildlife habitat in their yards.

Gardening for Life by Dr. Douglas Tallamy

Why we need Monarch butterflies http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the-monarch-didnt-appear.html?_r=0

Oak Openings Green Ribbon Initiative

General information on the Oak Openings, a globally rare habitat and what The Nature Conservancy has labeled as “One of America’s Last Great Places.” http://oakopenings.org/

Wildflower Information and Photos

Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center http://www.wildflower.org/plants/

Native Plant Network http://www.nativeplantnetwork.org/

Spring Wildflower guide from Metroparks Toledo

5-minute video about Oak Openings native plants done by Green Ribbon Initiative

Living in the Oak Openings guide — includes a good plant community photo section.

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Database

Illinois Wildflowers

WO native plants are bird feeders

Native Garden Websites

The Meadow Project – information about “Hometown Habitat,” the acclaimed environmental documentary by Catherine Zimmerman.

Native Plant Convert – blog by Wild Ones Oak Openings Region chapter past President Hal Mann about his conversion from traditional gardening to native plant gardening.

Nature Is My Therapy – blog by Wild Ones Oak Openings Region board member Kim Smith. This link goes to a page summarizing articles about her native garden project.