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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE AUTHORS gratefully acknowledge the many people and organizations that helped make this book possible.

The people and organizations are listed in no particular order:

We thank Gillian Berchowitz, director of Ohio University Press, for her support, counsel, and recognition of the environmental importance of regionally native plants for our gardens and landscapes.

We also thank:

The United States Department of Agriculture—USDA PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov/java/) and all the individuals from the USDA who contributed photographs for this book

Jeffrey S. Pippen (www.duke.edu/~jspippen/nature.htm), who contributed a wondrous supply of butterfly photographs

Rob’s Plants at www.robsplants.com

The Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder (http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/plantfindersearch.aspx)

The many photographers who released their photographs into the public domain

Mary Vaux Walcott, North American Wild Flowers (1925)

Alice Lounsberry (author, 1872–1949), Ellis Rowan (artist, 1847–1922)

Harriet L. Keeler (author, 1846–1921)

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

The illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and the many artists from the books used in this book:

Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885–1905)

Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora (1901–5)

Franz Köhler, Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen (1887)

Johann Georg Sturm, Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796)

William Curtis (1746–1799), Curtis’s Botanical Magazine

Forestry Images, http://www.forestryimages.org/

Illustrations by Allan Brooks

Darrell Kromm of Reeseville Ridge Nursery, Reeseville, Wisconsin

Paul L. Redfearn Jr. from the Missouri State University Herbarium

Dr. John Hilty, whose website (http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/) provides unique data on plants, birds, plant pollinators, butterflies, and other insects

Douglas W. Tallamy (entomologist, ecologist, author) for his vast knowledge and inspiration

We also thank the other authors, illustrators, and photographers who contributed to this book.

Finally, we are grateful to all our friends, native plant enthusiasts, and environmentally minded acquaintances who encouraged us in our endeavors to finish this book.