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** Medicinal Plants of the Potawatomi
http://www.manataka.org/page50.html
**Free Butterfly Garden Seeds
http://www.livemonarch.com/free-milkweed-seeds.htm
Project Budburst
Engages the public in making careful observations of the phenophases of plant
growth. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
**International Year of Natural Fibres
2009
Learn about
natural fibers, their value to consumers, and how they sustain farmers' incomes.
http://www.naturalfibres2009.org/
**Gardening for Native Bees in North
America
Helps home gardeners
choose flowering plants whose species will please gardener and bee alike.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=12050
Creating a Pollinator Garden
Cultivate a garden,
schoolyard, or few containers to provide pollinators vital oases amidst deserts
of buildings and concrete.
http://www.kidsgardening.com/
*vPlants
Browse through various
data from 90,000 plant specimens and images for over 50,000.
http://www.vplants.org/
**Billion Tree Campaign
A major
world-wide tree planting campaign by the United Nations
http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/
**Select a Tree
http://selectree.calpoly.edu/
The Vienna Vegetable
Orchestra
Just how
musical can vegetables be? Ask this group who's played vegetable
music in Europe and Asia.
http://www.gemueseorchester.org
Forest Protection Portal
Works to
end deforestation, preserve old-growth forests, conserve and sustain
other forests, and more
http://forests.org/
**School Gardens
The
history of the school gardens in America and why school gardens are
making a comeback.
http://www.loc.gov/
**The Mystery of the Sweet Potato
What does this plant
teach us about history?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1984421
**Our Future Flies on the
Wings of Pollinators
Background
about pollination and pollinators
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/
*Essential oils
The art of making and using essential oils
http://wisdomoftheelders.org/program07.html
**Lunar Plant Growth Chamber
Invites students to design chambers for growing plants on the moon.
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1953
**Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, And
Indigenous Knowledge
http://topics.developmentgateway.org
K'ante ‘el – Precious Forest
Location: Guatemala
Length: 11 min
http://www.archaeologychannel.org
Native American Ethnobotany
A Database of Foods,
Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants.
http://herb.umd.umich.edu/
*Yakama Nation Wildlife, Range, and
Vegetation Resources Management
A detailed and
well-rounded website about the tribe's programs.
http://www.ynwildlife.org/index.htm
**International Alliance of
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of Tropical Forests
A worldwide network of
organizations representing indigenous and tribal peoples living in tropical
forest regions.
http://www.international-alliance.org/index.htm
**Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific
Northwest
Over 2000 mushrooms of
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia
http://www.pfc.forestry.ca/biodiversity/matchmaker/
**Pick the Pollinator
Test your knowledge of
how insects, birds and other pollinators help flowering plants flourish.
http://www.pbs.org/nova/flower
NoNAIS.org
Protect Traditional
Rights to Farm
http://nonais.org/
**Plants
Used by the Wappo Indians
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
Role of Indigenous Knowledge in
Preserving Biodiversity
Indigenous knowledge
about cultivated and wild species.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/
**Celebrating Wildflowers
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/
**Month by Month Planting
Calendar
Presents lists for each month of flowering plants that may
be planted in U.S. gardens
http://www.demesne.info/Garden-Help/Planting-Calendar/
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*The American Cranberry
Explores how to plant,
harvest, cook, and market this round red relative of the blueberry.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/
**Ohio
Valley Dyes
An account of some of
the principal dyes employed by the North-American Indians
From the Ohio River Valley
http://memory.loc.gov/
**How Creator
brought sagebrush to the desert people
A desert creation story
http://wisdomoftheelders.org/program05.html
Mexico: Chiapas Highlands: A Sense of
Place
Audio file of how the
arrival of GM crops is beginning to influence their lives
http://www.archive.org/
UCS Pharma Crop Database
Find out if pharma
crops have been approved for planting in your state
http://go.ucsusa.org/
10 Steps To Better Eco-Diving In Kelp
Forests
Guidelines for safe
scuba diving in kelp forests
http://www.montereybay.noaa.gov/
Botanic Gardens
Using Biodiversity to
improve human well-being [pdf]
http://www.bgci.org
What is Crop Diversity
Looks at crop
diversity and its importance in agriculture and food security.
http://www.croptrust.org/main/whatis.php
Wieslander Vegetation Type Maps &
Photographs
A collection of over
3,000 digitized photographs of natural vegetation in California
http://lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/vtm/
The Organic Center
Features articles and
reports on subjects such as pesticides in foods, nutritional quality,
antioxidants, and food safety.
http://www.organic-center.org
**Birch bark
Native American uses for birchbark
http://www.nativetech.org/brchbark/brchbark.htm
**USDA Crop
Profiles
Information on production, cultural practice, and treatments
of insect pests and diseases.
http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles
**EcoKids: Tree Planting Tips
Tree planting tips and
related activities for children. C
http://www.ecokids.ca/
**How Wild is Your Garden?
How much do you know about the native plants that attract
wildlife?
http://www.enature.com/
*National Tree
Trust
NTT's mission is to act as a catalyst for local volunteer
groups in growing, planting, and maintaining trees in rural communities, urban areas, and along our nation's
highways.
http://www.nationaltreetrust.org/
**Plants In
Motion
Time-lapse photography shows science of plants.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2004/r0404-26.shtml
**Millennium
Seed Bank Project [pdf]
Organizations
establishing seed banks to protect the wide diversity of existing plant life
for future generations.
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/msbp/
** Honoring the
Land: Creating the Natural Environment at NMAI
Smithsonian.TV explorers the creation and care of the Native
Landscape at the National Museum of the American Indian
http://smithsonian.tv/videos/nmai/Curator_Talks/2005-11-04_Honoring_Land.htm
** Native American
Ethnobotany
A database of foods, drugs, dyes and fibers of Native American
peoples, derived from plants
http://herb.umd.umich.edu/
** Schools for Chiapas
Maya Seed Saving Photo Gallery
http://schoolsforchiapas.org/Pictures_and_Sounds/seeds/
** Exploratorium: Science of
Gardening
Video clips, interactives, photos, and articles about seeds,
plants and gardening.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/gardening/index.html
** Calafate or Michay
Mapuche Medicine
http://www.beingindigenous.org
**Native
Gardening Resources
A list of learning resources from the Eiteljorg museum
http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm/ep&e.asp
**The Vegetables We Eat
Discusses seeds, specialized root systems, shoot
systems, edible leaves, flowers and more.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/%7Ewsherb/edpages/delicious/introduction.html
**California Wild Rice
A semi-aquatic grass that historically grew in lakes, tidal
rivers and bays in water between 2 and 4 feet deep
http://www.cawildrice.com
**Herbicide-Resistant
Horseweed in California
Now growing prolifically on irrigation canal banks, vacant
lots, orchard and vineyard floors, roadsides and gardens
http://news.ucanr.org/newsstorymain.cfm?story=690
** National
Center for Genetic Resources Preservation
Over 1,000,000,000 seeds from 5,000 species to protect them
from extinction.
http://www.nwf.org/
**Planet ARKive
Features games, quizzes and about endangered plant and
animal species for children aged 7-11.
http://www.planetarkive.org/
* Botany
Offers resources related to the study
of earth's more than400,000 documented species of plant life.
http://www.nbii.gov/disciplines/botany/index.html
* Music for Dogwoods
Musicians imagine the voice of the dogwood:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4600468
*The Invasive
Species Initiative
Terrific list of resources about invasive plants and how to
manage them
http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/
*Native Plants
& Medicine
Video Archive from the Tillie Hardwick Lecture Series
http://www.cimcc.org/lect.htm
*Celebrating Wildflowers
Coloring Books
Featuring plants and wild flowers from the northwestern
United States and the Texas hill country.
http://www.nps.gov/plants/color/
*Invasive Plant Atlas of New
England
Contains images and descriptive information for the invasive
and potentially invasive plants in New England
http://invasives.eeb.uconn.edu/ipane/
Noble
Foundation Plant Image Gallery
The Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery has over 600 species
of plants to help students required to learn plants as a part of their studies.
http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/
Eternal
Seed
http://www.mediarights.org/search/fil_detail.php?fil_id=00723
Macrofungi of Costa Rica
Fungi, anyone?
http://www.homeworkcentral.com/knowledge/vsl_files.htp?fileid=129878&flt=CAB
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Plant Parts
Flashcards! Activities! Very cool and very fun games!
http://www.quia.com/custom/99main.html
*Historic Native American Garden at UC Davis
View a
slideshow about the garden, including historic photos
http://ucdavismagazine/issues/fall09/garden_slideshow/.
**Edible Flowers
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8513.html
**Gardeners Guide to Global Warming
Will your
state's plants and trees be affected by Global Warming?
http://www.nwf.org/gardenersguide/
Noxious Weed Coloring Book
Noxious Weeds are Everybody's Problem!
http://govdocs.evergreen.edu/coloringbooks/noxiousweed-coloringbook.pdf
**Conserving Indigenous Biocultural
Heritage
Defends indigenous rights to genetic resources, traditional knowledge and
landscape character in Peru
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NativeShare
**The Culture of Tobacco in
17th- and 18th-Century Europe
Significant
collections relating to the history of tobacco
http://www.nypl.org/
**USDA Plant
Hardiness Zone Map
Interactive document shows minimum temperature zones in the
United States, Canada, and Mexico
http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone
**America The Beautiful
A beautiful artistic
rendering of each State's wildflowers
http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1221321706636&source=jl999
**Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Inspires people to
live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and
understanding of the Sonoran Desert.
http://www.desertmuseum.org/
**Vanilla
Vanilla is a flavoring extract made from the bean of an orchid
plant, also called vanilla, that are indigenous to Mesoamerica.
http://www.kporterfield.com
**Arboretum Plant Photo Gallery: Fall
Foliage
Includes photos,
explains the science of autumn leaf color, lists plants that provide colorful
autumn leaves.
:http://www.usna.usda.gov/PhotoGallery/FallFoliage/]
California Wildflowers
From the Bureau of
Land Managaement
http://www.blm.gov/
*Traditional Herbal &Plant Knowledge,
Identifications
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/food/plants.html
**Edible Fungi
A list of mushrooms that are generally considered
edible for most people.
http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/edible.html
* Brooklyn
Botanic Gardens
Documents the flora in all counties within a 50-mile radius of
New York City.
http://www.bbg.org/sci/nymf/index.html
* The Human Flower Project
Newssource, photo album, weblog and discussion of
flowers in human culture.
http://www.humanflowerproject.com/
**The
Poinsettia Pages
History, lore, facts and figures, selection, and tips for
caring for poinsettia plants.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/poinsettia/
**Shade Grown Cacao
The role played by shade trees in cacao plantations
of providing habitats for migratory birds.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/
**Invasive, Exotic, Aquatic
and Wetland Plants in the Western United States
Descriptions, images, and information about plants that
cause problems in wetlands in the western U.S.
http://www.wapms.org/plants/
*Lewis & Clark as
Naturalists
Flora & fauna as described by the explorers
during their journey across America in 1804-6.
http://web4.si.edu/lewisandclark/index
*Gathering
activities of the fall season
As told by Judy Bluehorse Skelton
http://wisdomoftheelders.org/program03.html
*tobacco: past,
present, and future
Tobacco grew naturally in what is now known as the Americas.
It wasn't until 1492 that tobacco was introduced to Europe.
http://scienceu.fsu.edu/content/tobaccohistory/
*Native
Seeds/SEARCH
Works to protect crop biodiversity and to celebrate cultural
diversity.
http://www.nativeseeds.org/v2/default.php
CITES.org
Ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals
and plants does not threaten their survival
http://www.cites.org/
*Midewin
National Tall grass Prairie
The first national tallgrass prairie features a Midewin
prairie timeline, bibliography, and more
http://www.openlands.org/midewin/timeline.html
*Invasive Plant List Wallet
Card
Find out if a particular plant is right for your part of the
country
http://nature.org/magazine/summer2004/invasives/
The ANcient Forest Roadshow
Information about our ancient forests and the government's
policies which destroy them
http://www.forestroadshow.org/
Bibliography of
Dendrochronology
An archive of printed documents relevant to tree-ring research
worldwide
http://www01.wsl.ch/dendrobiblio
First Arbor Day
On April 10, 1872, Nebraskans celebrated the first Arbor Day
by planting more than a million trees
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/c
*United Plant
Savers
Protects native medicinal plants and habitat of the United
States and Canada,
http://www.plantsavers.org/
*Methuseluh
Tree
The oldest living thing on earth-- a bristle cone pine in
California's White Mountains that is nearly 5,000 years old.
http://pbs.org/nova/methuselah/
*Native Seeds
Promotes the use of ancient crops and their wild relatives by
gathering, safeguarding, and distributing their seeds.
http://www.nativeseeds.org/
*The Fungus
Among Us
A virtual museum explores the unseen mycelia of thousands of
species of fungi
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca//
* Summer Season Plants
Judy Bluehorse Skelton tells how she follows the plants
through the seasons,
http://wisdomoftheelders.org/program06.html
* Appropriate Use of Sacred
Tobacco
Downloadable posters
http://www.ncidc.org/tupe/downloads.htm
Health and Healing:
Indigenous ways of developing a relationship with the plant
world and native herbalists' lifetime commitment to herbal medicine.
http://wisdomoftheelders.org/program01.html
Taheebvu Chadi
Judy Trejo, Northern Paiute and Pitt River Indian
healer, shares her relationship with her great grandmother who was a healer.
http://wisdomoftheelders.org/program01.html
* Alien
Plants on Hawaii's Native Biota
From the University of Hawaii:
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu
*
Corn...The Beginning
Indians in central Mexico developed corn from a wild grass over 7,000 years
ago!
http://www.kycorn.org/
* Tobacco timeline
Experts believe the tobacco plant, as we know it today, begins growing in
the Americas around 6000 BC.
http://www.tobacco.org/
Dry Edible
Beans
Christopher Columbus found beans in Cuba and took them back to
Europe, where they were a special treat.
http://www.fb.com/nefb/ag-ed/dry_beans.html
Cultivating Canadian Gardens
Begins with the earliest recorded information on the plantings
of the Hurons who had been tending their crops long before Europeans arrived in North America
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/garden/
Hot Potatoes
The "number one crop disease in the world today,
"late blight," and how it's affecting the Peruvian Andes-the place where edible potatoes were first cultivated
http://www.kcts.org/productions/hotpotatoes/
The Foliage Network
http://www.foliagenetwork.com/
Historic Tree
Nursery
A website to buy offspring from Historic trees, including
American Elm (Chief Logan) , Pecan (Indian Marker), and Redbud(Trail of Tears)
http://www.historictrees.org/?
Native American
Cordage
How American Indians prepared plant and animal fibers for
making ropes and cords. An animated demonstration of thigh-spinning is included.
http://www.nativetech.org/cordage/
Curtis Botanical Magazine
Students of all ages can access research antique (1787-1807)
illustrations of native plant species from around the world.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/curtis/
Multipurpose
Mesquite
A popular plant with desert-dwelling Native Americans, the
mesquite tree produces edible beans as well as roots, bark and wood good for multiple uses. Video
format :-)
http://pbs-afg.virage.com
Michigan 4-H
Garden Tour
This ambitious project by Michigan State University and
Michigan 4-H Children's Garden features a North American Indian garden.
http://4hgarden.msu.edu/kidstour/tour.html
Ancient Agave
Cultivation
Evidence suggests that agave plants were cultivated in Arizona
by pre-Columbian peoples for the use of their fibers. Video format :-)
http://pbs-afg.virage.com/v
The Plants of the Discovery
The second great food revolution occurred when Christopher
Columbus and his successors, brought from America to Europe.
http://museum.agropolis.fr/
On the Trail of
the Sagueso Cactus
The fact that sagueso cactuses were discovered growing far
from their native climate proves that the Seri people had brought them there for food. Video format :-)
http://pbs-afg.virage.com/
Native American
Healing in the 21st Century
This video traces ancient healing methods of American Indians,
discusses the invaluable contributions they made to our early frontier medical heritage, and shows how many of these
same healing plants...
http://www.mediarights.org/
Plants For A
Future - Database Search
http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/D_search.html
The Eastern Native Seed Conservancy, endeavors to
preserve rare genetic stock and in so doing is able to offer the public a sampling of true rarity
Eastern Native Seed Conservancy
http://www.enscseeds.org/
Pack up
your gear, venture into this online forest, and explore ideas about nature!
Fantastic Forest
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forest/
Which of America's many trees would you choose for our national symbol?
Vote here!
The National Arbor Day
Foundation - We Help People Plant and Care for Trees
http://www.arborday.org/
A Capsule History of Tobacco
After European invasion of the Americas, tobacco became an international craze.
http://www.tobacco.org/History/Tobacco_History.html
Start a new garden or update your current gardening areas!
GardenGuides - Come Garden With Us
http://www.gardenguides.com/
In a Garden
Click on a button and watch your garden grow!
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/
Pumpkin
Nook
Everything you could possibly EVER want to know about
pumpkins
http://members.aol.com/ezpumpkin/
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