Native Plant Resources

CHOOSING PLANTS:

• Use this YNPN Bloomtime List to plan all-season splendor in your garden:

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• Find the ecoregional planting guide for your zip code from Pollinator.org.

• Look up a specific native plant: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

• Michigan native plant range and habitat information from the U-M Herbarium (Michigan Flora).

• Soil testing resources from the MSU Extension of Washtenaw County.

• Midwestern wildflower guide from the University of Illinois Extension.

• Illinois Wildflowers contains much information pertinent to Michigan natives.

PRE-EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT: 

• Four types of ecosystems dominated Ypsilanti Township: black oak barrens, mixed oak forest,  oak-history forest, and hardwood swamp.  

• "A Land Managers Guide to Prairies and Savannas in Michigan: History, Classification, and Management": 2006 guide by Ryan O'Connor for the Michigan State University Extension.

• "Prairie and Savanna in Southern Lower Michigan: History, Classification, Ecology": 2008 research paper by Kim Alan Chapman and Richard Brewer for Western Michigan University.

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RAIN GARDEN:

• Plant list from the Washtenaw County Rain Garden webpage.

• More Michigan rain garden plants from the West Michigan Environmental Action Council.

• Rain garden manual from the Geauga (PA) Soil and Water Conservation District.

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ECOLOGY:

• Michigan Natural Features Inventory Map of Vegetation circa 1800.

• EPA Ecoregions of Michigan.

• EPA Ecoregions of North America.

• Information about invertebrates vital to biodiversity: Xerces Society.

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