Westchester Community College, State University of New York

Resources

Learn more about native plants by visiting these websites and on-site locations. 

National

• America in Bloom
• American Gardener
• Ecological Landscaping Association
• Homegrown National Park
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildlife Center
• Landscape for Life
• National Audubon Society
• Wild Ones

Regional

• Planting Westchester
• Around the Grounds
• Federated Conservationists of Westchester County
• Healthy Yards
• Hudsonia:
• Institute of Ecosystem Studies
• Native Plant Society of New Jersey
• The Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management

• Leave Leaves Alone

• The Garden Education Center of Greenwich:

Plant Societies

• Finger Lakes Native Plant Society
• Long Island Native Plant Initiative
• Native Plant Trust 
• New York Flora Association:

• Niagara Frontier Botanical Society

• Torrey Botanical Society:

Native Plant Nurseries

• Catskill Native Nursery

• Native Landscapes

• Rosedale Nurseries, Inc.
• Hilltop Hanover Farm
• Wild Gardens Nursery
• One Nature

Native Plant Information

• New York State Natural Heritage Program:
• New York Flora Atlas
• Mt. Cuba Center
• Natureserve Explorer (the Nature Conservancy’s online biodiversity encyclopedia)
• The Biota of North America
• Treadlight Farm
• Natural Areas Conservancy Forest Identification and Restoration Selection Tool

Books

• Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East  by: Carolyn Summers
• The Pollinator Victory Garden by: Kim Eierman
• The Northeast Native Plant Primer  by: Uli Lorimer
• Bringing Nature Home by: Doug Tallamy

Sites to Visit in Westchester

• Teatown Lake Reservation

• Greenburgh Nature Center

• Rye Nature Center

• Trailside Nature Museum

• Westchester County Nature Preserves

• Cranberry Lake Preserve

• Croton Point Park Nature Center

• Lenoir Preserve

• Marshlands Conservancy

• Read Sanctuary
• Untermeyer Gardens

• Ward Pound Ridge
• Westchester Land Trust