References
The following references, used while researching & creating this site, should prove useful to ecologically minded gardeners!
New England Plant Finder
Native Plant Trust
Native plant database for home gardeners by Native Plant Trust, the nation’s first plant conservation organization and the only one solely focused on New England’s native plants.
Vermont Atlas of Life
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Vermont Center for Ecostudies’ library of knowledge on Vermont’s animals, plants, fungi and microorganisms – an online, real-time resource with maps, photographs, and primary biodiversity data open for anyone to use.
NC Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
NC State & NC A&T State Universities
Database helping people select plants that will bring them joy, provide a valuable function in their landscape, and thrive where planted, guided by the principle of “right plant, right place.”
Go Botany
Native Plant Trust
New England’s premier native plant database; a project funded by the National Science Foundation that aims to open plant study to a larger and more diverse segment of the population.
North American Plant Atlas
The Biota of North America Program
Comprehensive state and county level distribution maps of all vascular plant taxa found within the study area. It also provides multiple unique maps depicting unique soil and substrate types, climates and temperature zones, along with vegetation maps for the continent.
Wildflower.org
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
The Botanic Garden of Texas, dedicated to inspiring the conservation of native plants through its internationally recognized sustainable gardens, education and outreach programs, and research projects.
PLANTS Database
NRCS
Database providing standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the United States and its territories.
Birds of the World
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Fully collaborative ornithological platform that brings together deep, scholarly content from several celebrated works of ornithology with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds.
Keystone Plant Guides
Homegrown National Park
Keystone species info from Homegrown National Park, a non-profit raising awareness and urgently inspiring everyone to address the biodiversity crisis by adding native plants and removing invasive ones where we live, work, learn, pray, and play.
Fire Effects Information System
United States Forest Service
Online collection of reviews of scientific literature about fire effects on plants and animals and about fire regimes of plant communities in the United States.
iNaturalist App
iNaturalist
An online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature. A great community of naturalists sharing and identifying photographs of plants, insects, animals, and more!
IllinoisWildflowers.info
Illinois Wildflower Database
Descriptions, photographs, range maps, and faunal associations of many wildflowers and other plants in Illinois.
BAMONA Database
Butterflies & Moths of North America
The Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) project is an ambitious effort to collect and provide access to quality-controlled data about butterflies and moths for the continent of North America from Panama to Canada.
Jersey Friendly Plant Database
Barnegat Bay Partnership
Comprehensive online source of information about environmentally friendly landscaping throughout New Jersey.
Northeast Pollinator Resources
Xerces Society
Various resources on pollinator & invertebrate conservation put together by Xerces Society, an international nonprofit organization that protects the natural world through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats.