Native plant gardening illustrated resource listing

Compiled by: Patrick Goggin, Extension Lakes / College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point / Wisconsin Lakes Partnership

For: Science on Tap Minocqua – March 4th, 2020

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Why native plants?

Doug Tallamy

Bringing nature home: how you can

sustain wildlife with native plants

Nature's best hope: a new approach to

conservation that starts in your yard

Doug Tallamy and Rick

Darke

The living landscape: designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home

garden

Sara Stein

Noah's garden: restoring the

ecology of our own back yards

Planting Noah's garden: further adventures in backyard ecology

William Robinson

The wild garden

Natural Heritage Conservation

Program, Wisconsin Department of

Natural Resources

Wisconsin native plant nurseries - ER0698

[Last updated: January 2020]

Wild Ones

Landscaping with native plants [4th edition of the original Wild Ones handbook]

Steven Apfelbaum

Nature's second chance: restoring the

ecology of Stone Prairie Farm

Mariette Nowak

Birdscaping in the Midwest: a guide to

gardening with native plants to attract birds

Prairie Moon Nursery

How to attract birds and butterflies

Pollinator favorites

Johnson’s Nursery

Wisconsin native plant guide

Resources for pollinators

Heather Holm

Pollinators of native plants: attract, observe and identify pollinators and beneficial insects with native plants

pollinators of the Midwest

Bees: an identification and native plant forage guide

Central Wisconsin

Pollinator Network

The perfect pollinator garden poster

The Xerces Society for

Invertebrate Conservation

Attracting native pollinators: the Xerces Society guide, protecting

North America's bees and butterflies

Larry Weber

Butterflies of the North Woods [2nd Edition - Naturalist Series]

Jim Sogaard

Moths and caterpillars of the North Woods

[Naturalist Series]

Jeffrey Hahn

Insects of the North Woods [Naturalist Series]

Pollinator Partnership

https://www.pollinator.org/

Wisconsin Monarch Collaborative

http://wiatri.net/Projects/Monarchs/

Wisconsin Department

of Natural Resources

Saving Wisconsin's native pollinators

Lady Bird Johnson

Wildflower Center

Butterflies and Moths of North America

Provides Nesting Materials/Structure for Native Bees

Special Value to Native Bees

Scott Hoffman Black [executive director of the Xerces Society]

Nature close to home: reimagining gardens to support invertebrates

Great Lakes region plant list

Guidebooks for getting started with native plant gardening

Sally Wasowski

Gardening with prairie plants: how to create beautiful native landscapes

Janet Maconovich

Designing your gardens and landscapes: 12 simple steps for

successful planning

Alan Branhagen

Native plants of the Midwest: a comprehensive guide to the best 500

species for the garden

Piet Oudolf and Noel

Kingbury

Planting: a new perspective

Piet Oudolf and Henk

Gerritsen

Planting the natural garden

C. Henderson, C.

Dindorf, and F.

Rozumalski

Lakescaping for wildlife and water quality

D. Smith, D. Williams, G.

Houseal, and K.

Henderson

The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Prairie Restoration in the Upper

Midwest

Stephen Packard and

Cornelia Mutel (editors)

The tallgrass restoration handbook: for prairies, savannas, and

woodlands [The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration

Series - Second Edition, Revised Edition]

Healthy Lakes

350 ft2 native planting companion guide

Kate Brandis

Native plants for the small yard: easy, beautiful home gardens that support local

ecology

Beth O'Donnell Young

The Naturescaping workbook: a step-by-step guide for bringing

nature to your backyard

Resources for Wisconsin’s native flora including identification and ranges

Merel Black and Emmet

Judziewicz

Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the

Great Lakes region: a comprehensive field guide [2nd Edition]

Welby Smith

Trees and shrubs of Minnesota: the

complete guide to species identification [1st Edition]

Judziewicz, Freckmann,

Clark, and Black

Field guide to Wisconsin grasses

Andrew Hipp

Field guide to Wisconsin sedges:

an introduction to the Genus Carex (Cyperaceae)

Joe Walewski

Lichens of the North Woods

[Naturalist Series]

Janice Glime

The elfin world of mosses and liverworts of Michigan's upper

peninsula and Isle Royale

Aquatic plants

Aquatic plants of the upper Midwest: a photographic field guide to our

underwater forests [4th Edition] - Paul Skawinski

Through the looking glass: a field

guide to aquatic plants [second edition]

University of Wisconsin-

Madison Arboretum

Plant communities

Theodore Cochrane and

Hugh Iltis

Atlas of the Wisconsin prairie and savanna flora

Ferns and fern allies

Ferns and allies of the north woods: a handy field reference to all 86 of

our ferns and allies [Naturalist Series]

Maintenance of native plant gardens

Dave Williams

The Tallgrass Prairie Center guide to seed and seedling identification

in the upper Midwest [Bur Oak Guide]

Dave Williams

The prairie in seed: identifying seed-bearing prairie plants in the

upper Midwest [Bur Oak Guide]

Roy Diblik

The know maintenance perennial garden

Cardno

Native plant nursery installation and maintenance guideline

Elizabeth Czarapata

Invasive plants of the upper Midwest: an illustrated guide to their identification and control

Jane Cummings Carlson, Jeff

Martin, and Kyoko Scanlon

Oak wilt management: what are the options?

[UW-Extension G3590]

Prairie Moon Nursery

Growing your prairie: eight steps toward achieving a natural

landscape in three to five years

Prairie Nursery

Quick guide: preparing and planting your native plant garden

National Wildlife

Federation

Native plant finder online tool

Taylor Creek

Restoration Nurseries

The native planting handbook

Natural Heritage

Conservation Program,

Wisconsin Department of

Natural Resources

Wisconsin restoration contractors - ER0699

[Last updated: January 2020]

Natural plant community restoration

John Kotar, Joseph

Kovach, and Timothy

Burger

A guide to forest communities and habitat types of northern Wisconsin

[Second Edition, 2002]

A guide to forest communities and

habitat types of central and southern Wisconsin [1996, John Kotar and Timothy Burger]

John Curtis

The vegetation of Wisconsin: an ordination of plant communities

Randy Hoffman

Wisconsin's natural communities: how to recognize them, where to

find them

Natural Heritage

Conservation Program,

Wisconsin Department

of Natural Resources

Wisconsin native plants: recommendations for landscaping and natural community restoration [Natural Heritage Conservation Program – NH0936]

E. Howell, J. Harrington,

and S. Glass

Introduction to restoration ecology [The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration

Series - 2nd Edition]

John Diekelmann and

Robert Schuster

Natural landscaping: designing with native plants [Second Edition]

Gerould Wilhelm and

Laura Rericha

Flora of the Chicago region: a floristic and ecological synthesis

Daniel Shaw and Rusty

Schmidt

Plants for stormwater design species selection for the Upper

Midwest

Stan Nichols, Lynn

Entine, and Evelyn

Howell

Prairie primer

Steven Apfelbaum and

Alan Haney

Restoring ecological health to your land

The growing native plant gardening movement

Benjamin Vogt

A new garden ethic: cultivating defiant compassion for an uncertain

future

James Hitchmough

Sowing beauty: designing flowering meadows from seed

Larry Weaner and

Thomas Christopher

Garden revolution: how our landscapes can be a source of

environmental change

Piet Oudolf and Rick

Darke

Gardens of the High Line: elevating the nature of modern landscapes

2020 Wisconsin Lakes

and Rivers Convention

Focusing on resilient lakes and rivers

W. Gary Smith

From art to landscape: unleashing creativity in garden design

Thomas Rainer and

Claudia West

Planting in a post-wild world: designing plant communities for

resilient landscapes

John Greenlee and

Saxon Holt

The American meadow garden: creating a natural alternative to the

traditional lawn

Joel Sternfeld

Joel Sternfeld: walking the High Line

Missouri Botanical

Garden

Chapter four: landscaping with native plants - a gardener’s guide

for Missouri

< www.grownative.org >

Propagating and germinating native plants

Harold Rock

Prairie propagation handbook [6th Edition]

Native Plant Network

database

Search the protocol database

James Young

Collecting, processing and germinating seeds of wildland plants

Lewis Hill

Secrets of plant propagation: starting your own flowers, vegetables, fruits,

berries, shrubs, trees, and houseplants

Harry Phillips

Growing and propagating wild flowers

Patrick and Quita's native plant garden tour – You Tube virtual garden tour

[Running time: 21:29]

Native plant garden picture tour of Patrick and Quita's house [Running time: 20:55]