Resources
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:
- Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium, University of Wisconsin
- Illinois Wildflowers, and their excellent glossary of botanical terms
- Connecticut Botanical Society
- Missouri Wildflowers
- Kansas Wildflowers
- Wildflowers of Eastern North America
- USDA Plants Database
- Flora of North America at eFloras.org: no pictures, but packed with detailed descriptive information on many plants, if you can interpret the botanical terms
- Aquatic and Wetland Vascular Plants of the Northern Great Plains: also few images but some good descriptive information
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.
- Plants for a Future: information on edible plants and medicinal uses, among other things.
Gardening with Natives
- 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.
- Wild Ones promotes landscaping with native plants around homes and businesses and has 6 chapters in Minnesota.
- Ask MN Master Gardeners all your gardening questions.
