The Brown County Natives Woodlands Project is the first county in the state of Indiana to adopt the goal of protecting its forests from invasive plant species. It has mapped targeted species along all county roadsides and has begun eradication of Japanese knotweed, trained volunteers, completed more than 50 free, invasive plant assessments on private property, and created an informative website. Every September BCNWP sponsors Nature Daze, a free all-day family event with a focus on being good stewards of our land.
Friends
of the White River Established
in 1985, the Friends of the White River is
a not-for-profit corporation formed to preserve
and protect the White River. The Friends represent
those who use the river for recreational purposes,
those who live near its banks, and all citizens
interested in the preservation of the river
as a natural resource.
Friesner
Herbariumat
Butler University, Indianapolis, houses a systematic
collection of nearly 100,000 dried, pressed and preserved
plant species from around the world, with an emphasis
on the plants of the Ohio River Valley region. The website
features the greenhouse, prairie,
autumn color on campus, campus tree walks, wildflowers on campus and in Marion County, botanical links, and more.
Indiana’s Hidden [Garden] Treasures - Embodying the unseen beauty around us, Indiana’s historic parks, boulevards, cemeteries, and estate gardens are culturally significant landscapes. Many have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. These open spaces and places of beauty are ready for tourists, educators, preservationists, historians, gardeners, and others to explore. This website will help you investigate the possibilities.
Indiana's "Most
Unwanted"
Invasive Plant Pest Web SiteThe
Indiana Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey
(CAPS) program, which is a collaborative effort
between Purdue, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
division of Plant Protection and Quarantine,
the Indiana Department of Natural Resources,
and the Indiana chapter of The Nature Conservancy,
recently launched a new Web site highlighting
Indiana's "most unwanted" invasive
plant pests, http://extension.entm.purdue.edu/CAPS . The
list is determined yearly by the Indiana CAPS
state survey committee and identifies exotic
species, invasive species and pests regulated
by state or federal laws that could affect
Indiana . The list is also used by officials
to determine how resources for surveys and
outreach and educational programs are best
spent to protect Indiana.
Indiana Species Pages - by Kay Yatskievych. 27 PDF's available now - additional ones will be available after completion of her updated Catalogue of the Vascular Flora of Indiana.
The Natural Heritage of Indiana. Click here to visit their exciting website. INPAWS is proud to be a project partner. The site includes a page about Wildflowers - http://www.naturalheritageofindiana.org/learn/wildflowers.html - information gathered from the Friesner Herbarium Wildflower website. Mary Rose Wampler's book - "Wildflowers of Indiana" - is also available on the site courtesy of IUPUI.
NICHES Land Trust (Northern Indiana Citizens Helping Ecosystems Survive)
If
you have suggestions to add to this page
contactMarcia
Moore.
Regional and National Organizations
American
Beauties Native Plants The
American Beauties™ collection of native
plants makes it easy to use trees, shrubs,
vines, grasses and wildflowers that are beautiful
and good for wildlife. Although
this site is intended for the Northeaster
U.S., it provides some of the design help
that Indiana native plant gardeners may need.
Audubon
At HomeAudubon
At Home is about taking personal conservation
action to improve the environmental health
and habitat quality of our yards and
neighborhoods.
They support the use of native plants.
Best Plants for Attracting Beneficial Insects and Pollinators (PDF) Science students at Michigan State University examined 43 native Michigan plants that historically grew in prairie or savanna habitats that have been largely replaced by agriculture. By watching which insects came to the flowers throughout the season, they rated the plants by relative attractiveness to insect natural enemies (predators and parasitoids) and bees (pollinators). Good reason to get acquainted with cup plant and shrubby cinquefoil!
Celebrating
Wilflowers- by the
USDA Forest Service. Celebrating
Wildflowers is a series of events for people
who are interested in native plants. The
web site includes modules including Wildflower
News, Just for Kids, Coloring Pages, Teacher
Resources, Pollinators, Native gardening,
Wildflower Ethics, Invasive Plants and Wildflower
Links; listings of wildflower events, wildflower
viewing areas and Plant of the Week.
Center
for Plant Conservation is the
only national organization in the U.S. dedicated
solely to preventing the extinction of U.S.
native plants. CPC operates
a national program of ex situ conservation,
research, education and restoration through
a consortium of 28 leading botanical gardens
and arboreta.
Connecticut
Botanical Society, excellent site for
wildflower photos, plant identification, gardening with
native plants, and much more.
eNature
- Native Gardening and Invasive Plants Guide The
guide is searchable by state and the
list of native species can be sub-divided
according to plant type (for example,
evergreen shrubs, wildflowers, vines,
or aquatic plants). Each plant
has a color photo and a full field guide
description as well."
Great Plants for the Midwest - The GreatPlants program, a joint effort of the Nebraska Nursery & Landscape Association and the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, selects and promotes exceptional plants that are reliably hardy, easy to care for, and ornamentally worthwhile. Their website includes photographs of selected trees, shrubs, and perennials and a list of must-have books for gardeners.
Kansas Wildflowers
and Grasses, this site contains information
and more than 3053 identification photos for some 598
species of forbs, grasses, sedges, rushes, and woody plants
found growing in Kansas. Excellent photos and info and
very well organized!
The Lady
Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in
Austin, Texas (formerly the National
Wildflower Research Center) maintains
links to other state native plant
societies, gardens with displays
of regionally native plants, a calendar
of native-plant-themed events across
North America, and many other useful
native plant sites.
North American Native Plant Society - NANPS is a volunteer-operated registered charitable organization concerned with preserving native plant habitat in wild areas and restoring indigenous flora to developed areas.
The Plant
Conservation Alliance is
a consortium of ten federal government
Member agencies and more than 145 non-federal
Cooperators (INPAWS is a cooperator)
representing various disciplines within
the conservation field: biologists, botanists,
habitat preservationists, horticulturists,
resources management consultants, soil
scientists, special interest clubs, non-profit
organizations, concerned citizens, nature
lovers, and gardeners. PCA Members and
Cooperators work collectively to solve
the problems of native plant extinction
and native habitat restoration, ensuring
the preservation of our ecosystem. (The
PCA was formerly the Native Plant Conservation
Initiative.)
USDA Plants Database - The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
US EPA Greenlandscaping - Landscaping resources using native plants. Includes natural landscaping fact sheets and Great Lakes native plants resources.
Wild
Ones promotes
biodiversity and environmentally
sound practices at the "plant-roots" level. (this is the National organization site)
Xerces
SocietyThe
Xerces Society is a conservation organization
dedicated to invertebrates, including pollinators. Native
pollinator conservation includes modifying
and inproving habitat with native plants and
wildflowers.
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