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Michigan native ferns and woodland
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Links
Links
The following web sites offer information about ferns, Michigan native plants and/or landscaping with native plants:
- Connecticut Botanical Society: Connecticut Ferns
- Ferns and Fern Allies of the Northwoods
- Flora of North America, vol. 1, chap. 12: Pteridophytes of North America
- Flora of North America, vol. 2: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms
- Michigan Botanical Club
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources: Michigan's Plants (An Overview)
- Michigan Native Plant Producers Association
- Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council: Northern Michigan's Native Plants
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes Ecosystems: Green Landscaping
- Wildflower Association of Michigan
- Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes
The following books provide information about identifying, growing, and gardening with ferns:
- Ferns: Wild Things Make a Comeback in the Garden, by C. Colston Burrell (Ed.), Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1994, ISBN 0945352824, 112 pages. This small book provides an excellent introduction to gardening with ferns. Most of the species listed are native to North America.
- Ferns for American Gardens, by John T. Mickel, Timber Press, 2003, ISBN 0881925985, 384 pages. This book contains much valuable information about gardening with ferns, but it places heavy emphasis on the cultivars available in the horticultural trade.
- Fern Grower's Manual (Revised and Expanded Edition), by Barbara Joe Hoshizaki and Robbin C. Moran, Timber Press, 2001, ISBN 0881924954, 624 pages. This book is a necessary reference for anyone seriously interested in growing ferns.
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns, Second Edition: Northeastern and Central North America, by Boughton Cobb, Cheryl Lowe, and Elizabeth Farnsworth, Houghton Mifflin, 2005, ISBN 0618394060, 304 pages. This second edition is a much-needed update to the classic 1956 field guide. If you have the old version, keep it for nostalgia, but take the new one out in the field.
- Field Guide to Northeastern Ferns, by Eugene C. Ogden, New York State Museum, Bulletin Number 444, 1981, ASIN B0006EBYZK, 122 pages. This book is out of print but is worth tracking down for those who are seriously interested in learning how to identify ferns in the wild. It contains very accurate and detailed drawings of all portions of the plant, and its descriptive information is presented in a consistent format, making it easy to determine the differences between very similar species.
- A Natural History of Ferns by Robbin C. Moran, Timber Press, 2004, ISBN 0881926671, 302 pages. This book is a collection of essays written by the curator of ferns at the New York Botanical Garden. The topics cover every aspect of ferns imaginable, from "Spore Shooting," to ferns "At the Movies," to "Iridescent Ferns and Their Shady Behavior," to "Robinson Crusoe's Ferns." This book is just plain fun to read!
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