Resources
Native Plant Nurseries, Restoration and Landscaping Services ↓
Map of native plant resources in the upper midwest
Other wildflower sites
Many wildflowers and grasses that grow in Minnesota are common in other parts of North America, too. Sites with photos and/or information that may be helpful are:
- University of Michigan Herbarium
- Consortium of Midwest Herbaria
- Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia
- Illinois Wildflowers, and their glossary of botanical terms
- Missouri Plants
- Kansas Wildflowers
- Connecticut Botanical Society
- Saskatchewan Native Plants and Colin's Virtual Herbarium
- USDA Plants Database (not exactly up to date but I'm told they're working on it)
- Flora of North America at eFloras.org (and their improved beta site): no pictures except for botanical drawings, but packed with detailed descriptive information on many plants, if you can interpret the botanical terms
Other plant reference sites
- Dictionary of Common Names of Great Plains Plants: What one site calls Field Sagewort, another calls Tall Wormwood. This site can help clear the confusion on common names if you have a plant's scientific name. Regrettably, the University of Nebraska took this down, but the pages are still available on the Wayback Machine.
- Plants for a Future: information on edible plants and medicinal uses, among other things.
Gardening and landscaping with native plants
- Recommended reading: Bringing Nature Home by Douglas Tallamy, on planting natives to sustain wildlife in your own yard.
- The DNR has extensive lists of native plant suppliers and landscapers in Minnesota and surrounding states.
- Restoring the Landscape With Native Plants is an excellent site about a home restoration project in suburban central Minnesota.
- Wild Ones promotes landscaping with native plants around homes and businesses and has several chapters in Minnesota.
- Blue Thumb helps landowners with shoreline plantings and rain gardens using native plants.
- The North American Native Plant Society web site includes information on gardening with natives as well as resources
- The American Society of Landscape Architects has a program to help build communities with native plants and wildlife habitat.