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On-line Resources—websites, plant databases, and apps

Habitat Gardening Practices

• Gardening for Pollinators on-line course I developed for Native Plant Trust
• Pollinator Partnership
• Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
• Landscape for Life
• U.S. Forest Service Gardening for Pollinators
• US EPA Protecting Bees and Other Pollinators from Pesticides
• Grow Native Massachusetts
• Ecological Landscape Alliance

Garden Planning

• Native Plant Trust and Garden Plant Finder
• U.S. Forest Service: Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden Using Native Plants
• National Wildlife Federation: Garden for Wildlife
• Tree underplanting guidance to provide insect pupation sites
• USDA Hardiness Zone Map
• Ecoregions of New England
• Ecoregional Planting Guides for U.S. and Canada

Plant Identification

• New England Region: Go Botany
• United States: USDA Plants Database
• Midwestern U.S.: Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
• Texas: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center 

Free Plant ID Apps (iOS, Android)

• iNaturalist
• LeafSnap
• PlantNet
• PlantSnap

Invasive Plant Identification and Remediation

• Common Invasive Plants in Massachusetts
• Homeowner Removal Techniques for Invasives
• Dealing with Japanese Knotweed
• Massachusetts Prohibited Plant List
• USDA National Invasive Species Information Center​ ​​​​​​

General Ecology, Insect, Bird Information for the Amateur

• Xerces Society
• North American Butterfly Association
• BugGuide
• In Defense of Plants (blog and podcast)
• Project Budburst
• USA National Phenology Network
• The Cornell Lab All About Birds​

Print Resources

• Native Plants for New England Gardens (Jaffe & Richardson) 2017
• Bringing Nature Home: How you can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants; updated and expanded edition (Tallamy) 2007
• Wildflowers of New England (Elliman) 2016
• Sibley Guide to Trees (Sibley) 2009
• Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe and Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants (Holm) 2014
• Insects of New England & New York (Murray) 2012
• Sibley Guide to Birds (2nd Edition) (Sibley) 2014

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