Native Plant Info Masterlist...2!
This will be a USA centric post sadly, mostly focused on the East, since I am unfamiliar with resources outside of my area.
iNaturalist lets you upload pictures of any organisms and get them identified by the community, but if you don't want to upload, you can still lurk and look through all the photos being posted in your area to develop familiarity with the plants
Wildflower Search lets you toggle between photos of leaves, flowers, fruits etc. of each plant, gives loads of links to other sites that provide info, lets you search by flower color, plant type, time of year, and about a dozen other search criteria- very cool site
Wildflower.org is another very good site- has a search function where you can search plants by various traits and qualities
Find native plants by the number of butterflies that use them
Butterfly host plant list
Keystone species for every USA ecoregion for butterflies and bees
UNC Chapel Hill's 2022 Flora of the Southeastern United States. The ultimate EXHAUSTIVE compendium of plants. You can download it but beware it is over 2,000 pages long
Illinois Wildflowers is an excellent resource for plants found throughout the southeast and Midwest
Virginia Wildflowers
Northern Forest Atlas Awesome high quality photos of trees and leaves, buds, etc.
Name That Plant is a great resource focused on the Carolinas and Georgia
Maryland Biodiversity has much information on plants and many other creatures
Sarracenia.com is all about carnivorous plants
Native Beeology is focused on native bees of New York State
Also try looking up "[your state] native plant society" as many states have one! It could be a great way to find opportunities to get involved.
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I made another save Gaza patch this time with @orangeblossombitch design here
It Kinda looks like it says Gazp but I’m fixing that soon and I’m probably going to give this to someone
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Does the flower from your first n2 post have any significance? Why isn't it blooming?
Yes the flower here does have significance!
It’s a memorial flower, the exact species of flower is one I made up, it’s one that has a strange growth period, there’s no real way to tell when it’s going to bloom but it does only bloom at night.
John Dory got the seeds while on one of his searches and gave it to Floyd since at the time Floyd was severely depressed and was spending all day everyday in his room in the bunker. JD had given Floyd a bunch of seeds for a garden but Floyd ended up only planting one which he’s been taking care of since he planted it.
He planted it on Clays birthday so they refer to it as Clay’s flower, but it’s a memorial for all their lost family members, so their parents, grandma, Clay, and Spruce/Bruce
Other than just maintaining it, Floyd also talks to it like the ones they lost can hear him through the flower, he visits it at least once everyday while the other brothers only visit on anniversaries and birthdays. (They also only bring the lights and photos out then as well, to keep the photos safe from damage)
It’s Floyd’s way of grieving :)
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