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NATIVE PLANTING GUIDES (PDF’s)

There’s so much to know… The early years of learning the plants and the web of relationships connected to them can be inspiring and overwhelming at the same time. The team at Bowman’s Wildflower Preserve in Bucks County PA, with their lifetimes of combined experience, have offered something to help: These wonderful guides can help you select the right plant for the right place.

Here is a great tool, created by Author Doug Tallamy, that shows what native plants support the most insects in your given zip code.

Here is the map created by the Biota of North America Program (BONAP). You can enter the name of any of the 24,184 species of plants in North America and the map indicates where that plant is native, where it is present, present but rare, or in some unfortunate cases, extirpated.