REFERENCE AND GUIDES
- Why Native Plants by Wild Ones: Native Plants, Native Landscapes
- Recommended Native Plants for Maryland by the University of Maryland Extension
- Audubon Society Plant Search
- Maryland Butterflies photographs and host plants for Maryland butterflies
- Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas by National Park Service – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
ARTICLES
- How Non-Native Plants Are Contributing to Global Insect Decline,
Yale Environment 360, December 2020 - What You May Not Know About Those April Flowers,
New York Times, March 28, 2021 - Recent Articles from Indigenous Landscapes
- Powerhouse Plants: UD researchers identify key native plants that support shrinking number of insects, stabilize food webs UD Daily, December 10, 2020
NONFICTION
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- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall-Kimmerer
- Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy
- Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. Tallamy
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- The Humane Gardener by Nancy Lawson
- Saving the Places We Love: Paths to Environmental Stewardship by Ned Tillman
- A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future by Benjamin Vogt
- The Living Landscape by Rick Darke and Douglas W. Tallamy
- The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren
- Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori
- The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell
- The Delaware Naturalist Handbook by McKay Jenkins and Sue Barton
- Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
FICTION
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- Hoot by Robert Hiaasen (children’s/young adult)
- We are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
OTHER SUGGESTED READING LISTS
- Maryland Native Plant Society Books for Plant Lovers