Books
- Attracting Native Pollinators: The Xerces Society Guide, Protecting North America’s Bees and Butterflies by The Xerces Society
- Butterfly Gardening for Texas by Geyata Ajilvsgi
- Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Doug Tallamy
- Gardening With Prairie Plants: How To Create Beautiful Native Landscapes by Sally Wasowski
- Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies by Jim Weber, et.al.
- Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region by Sally Wasowski and Andy Wasowski
- A Garden Book for Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast, River Oaks Garden Club
- Rare Plants of Texas by Jackie M. Poole, William R. Carr, Dana M. Price, Jason R. Singhurst
- Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education by Michael Pollan
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- A Swift Guide to Butterflies of North America by Jeffrey Glassberg
- Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife by Kelly Conrad Bender
- Texas Wildflowers by Campbell Loughmiller, Lynn Loughmiller, Damon Waitt
- Wildflowers of Texas by Geyata Ajilvsgi
Web Sites
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Houston Wilderness
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Monarch Joint Venture
- Butterflies and Moths of North America
- Texas Breeding Birds Atlas
On-Line Resources
- Coastal Prairie Plant Growers Handbook by Jaime González, Larry Allain, Tom Solomon, with Flo Hanna
- Identification of Milkweeds in Texas by Jason Singhurst and Ben Hutchins (TPWD), Walter C. Holmes (Baylor Univ.)
- An Introduction to Texas Turtles by TPW Magazine
- Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America by John Stein and Denise Binion, USDA Forest Service.
- Field Guide for Plant Identification by Harris County Flood Control District
- Management Recommendations for Native Insect Pollinators in Texas by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
- Milkweeds, A Conservation Practitioners Guide By Brianna Borders and Eric Lee-Mader, Xerces Society
- Earth by NASA
- National Individual Tree Species Atlas by James R. Ellenwood, Frank J. Krist Jr., Sheryl A. Romero, U.S. Forest Service
- Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests by James H. Miller, USDA Forest Service
- Paradise Lost? The Coastal Prairie of Louisiana and Texas by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey
- Texas Monarch Flyway Strategy by Houston Wilderness
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