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PLANIT COMMUNITY

Child Reading in the Grass

RESOURCES

FAVORITE READS

Bringing Nature Home Douglas W. Tallamy

Planting in a Post-Wild World Tomas Rainer and Claudia West

BEST PLANT ID

Trees, Shrubs and Woody Vines of Illinois

Missouri Botanical Garden (Great Photos)

Missouri Prairie Foundation - Native Plant Database

Natural Resources Conservation Service - Seeding ID Guide

WHERE TO BUY

Natural Garden Natives (Plants and Plugs)

Plant Native (Seedlings)

NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS

The Tallgrass Prairie of Illinois

Illinois Wildflowers

WEEDS

Weed Identification and Control Library

WATER

United States Drought Monitor

Rain Garden Network

Wetlands - Illinois DNR

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Missouri Botanical Garden

Morton Arboretum

VPlants - Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region

Chicago Botanic Garden

ANIMALS, INSECTS AND MORE

University of Illinois Extension Living with Wildlife in Illinois

Forest Preserve District of DuPage County - Living with Wildlife

WestCook Wildones - A Guide to Butterfly Gardening in the Chicago Region

Xerces Society - Pollinator Conservation

FUN LOCAL FINDS

Morton Arboretum

Chicago Botanic Garden

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