Resources

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Native Plants

Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

Native Plants for Conservation, Restoration, and Landscaping

https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural-heritage/nativeplants

Invasive plant fact sheets

https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural-heritage/factsheets

Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Invasive Species Factsheets

https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural-heritage/invspfactsheets

Plant Virginia Natives

Plant Virginia Natives

https://www.plantvirginianatives.org/

What Makes a Plant a Virginia Native?

https://www.plantvirginianatives.org/what-is-a-virginia-native

Plant Hampton Roads Natives (includes list of local sources for native plants)

https://www.plantvirginianatives.org/plant-southeast-virginia-natives

Where to Get Native Plants

https://www.plantvirginianatives.org/where-to-get-native-plants

Virginia Native Plant Society

Virginia Native Plant Society

https://vnps.org/

Virginia Native Plant Guides (detailed PDF booklets free to download for the different areas of Virginia)

https://vnps.org/virginia-native-plant-guides/

John Clayton Chapter, VNPS

https://vnps.org/johnclayton/

Northern Neck Chapter, VNPS

https://www.nnvnps.org/

Prince William Wildflower Society, “Wildflowers for Butterfly Gardens”

https://vnps.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2019/07/2020-Butterfly-Gardens-Brochure.pdf

Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora

https://vaplantatlas.org/

Native Plant Finder

https://nativeplantfinder.nwf.org/

Homegrown National Park

https://homegrownnationalpark.org/

Native Plants for Wildlife Habitats and Conservation Landscaping, Chesapeake Bay Watershed (USFWS)

https://efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/references/public/va/NativePlantsforWildllifeHabitat.pdf

Native Gardening with Wildflowers (USDA/US Forest Service)

https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/Native_Plant_Materials/Native_Gardening/index.shtml

Habitats

Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources

Habitat at Home

https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/Habitat-at-Home.pdf

Habitat Gardening for Wildlife

https://dwr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/habitat-gardening.pdf

Sustaining Butterflies with Habitats at Home

https://dwr.virginia.gov/blog/sustaining-butterflies-with-habitats-at-home/

Virginia’s Wildlife

https://dwr.virginia.gov/wildlife/wildlife-information/

US Department of Agriculture

Gardening for Pollinators

https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/wildflowers/pollinators/gardening

Attracting Pollinators to your Plants Using Native Plants, Eastern United States

https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/AttractingPollinatorsEasternUS_V1.pdf

Attracting Pollinators to your Garden Using Native Plants

https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/AttractingPollinatorsV5.pdf

Resources to Help Pollinators

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/guides-and-instructions/resources-to-help-pollinators

Pollinators

Save Our Monarchs

https://www.saveourmonarchs.org/

Pollinator Partnership

https://www.pollinator.org/

Monarch Watch

https://www.monarchwatch.org/

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