An important component of Arrowhead Native Plant Explorers’ (ANPE) mission is education. We offer hand’s-on learning opportunities and shared resources to develop understanding of plants and their communities. Attending ANPE events is a great way to add to your knowledge base about native plants. Every field trip or presentation is an opportunity to learn a little more, to ask questions of informed and knowledgeable people, and to share your knowledge with others.
Resources developed by Arrowhead Native Plant Explorers:
ANPE has also developed a lending library of relevant plant reference books. This collection of books is available for check-out by members or for event attendees. Donations to the lending library are always encouraged and welcomed!
Our Lending Library:
– What’s Doin the Blooming: A Pictorial Guide to Wildflowers of the Upper Great Lakes Regions, Eastern Canada and Northeastern U. S. A. – Clayton Oslund and Michele Oslund
– Nature’s Garden – Samuel Thayer
– Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern & Central North America – Samuel Thayer
– The Forager’s Harvest – Samuel Thayer
– Plants Used by the Great Lakes Ojibwa – Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, James Meeker, et al.
Check out these additional resources for plant identification, where to purchase native plants, and other native plant groups.
Recorded Presentations:
(Note: turn up the volume on your device, as this video did not use a microphone.)
Online Plant ID Resources:
– Minnesota Wildflowers
– Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
– Flora of Wisconsin
– Bell Museum Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas
– Olga Lakela Herbarium at the University of Minnesota – Duluth
– USDA Plants Database
– Flora of North America
Where to purchase native plants in northeastern Minnesota
Other native plant groups:
– Minnesota Native Plant Society
– Botanical Club of Wisconsin
– Wild Ones – Arrowhead Chapter
– Michigan Botanical Club – Great Lakes Chapter
– Minnesota Master Naturalist Program
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