Learn how to create a wildflower meadow in your own backyard!

1. wildflowers & pollinators
c'ville foodscapes

2. milkweed (Asclepias sp.) & monarch butterfly

3. + =
meadows

4. Baptisia tinctoria
Veronicastrum
Solidago speciosa virginicum
Verbena hastata
Eupatorium maculatum Rudbeckia fulgida
Monarda fistulosa
Desmodium
Lobelia cardinalis Lobelia siphilitica paniculatum Penstemon digitalis Vernonia noveboracencis

5. know yer latin
useful families to know (furetur libro hoc)
Apiaceae – carrots
Malvaceae – mallow Botany in a Day Lobelia siphilitica
The Pattern Method
Asteracea – daisy
Of Plant Identification
Crassulacea – mustard
Liliacea – lily Thomas Elpel
Fabaceae – pea
Lamiaceae – mint
Papaveraceae – poppy
Baptisia tinctoria

6. albemarle county native plant database
albemarle.org/NativePlants/list.asp
USDA native plant database
plants.usda.gov
virginia native plant society
vnps.org
native plant sale 4/28 at Ivy Creek
wintergreen foundation
wintergreenfoundation.org
Oligoneuron rigidum
va native plant resources Coreopsis tripteris

7. syrphid flies

8. Anthidinii sp. Halictis sp.
Halictis sp. Osmia lignaria Halictis sp.
Osmia sp. Halictis sp. Halictis sp.
solitary bees

9. xerces society
xerces.org
“The Xerces Society is a nonprofit
organization that protects wildlife
through the conservation of
invertebrates and their habitat. For forty
years, the Society has been at the
forefront of invertebrate protection
worldwide, harnessing the knowledge of
scientists and the enthusiasm of citizens
to implement conservation programs.”

10. wasps
Polistes sp. Ammophila sp.
Vespula maculifrons
Sphex sp. Ammophila sp.
Priocnemis minorata
Polistes sp. Sphex ichneumoneus Polistes annularis Ectemnius sp.

11. critter houses

12. Archilochus colubris female
Pyrota insulata Rhagonycha fulva
Archilochus colubris male
Melois sp.
Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus
other pollinators
Dolichopus sp. Chrysopa sp.

13. meadow gardens

14. 1. assemble a posse
1.
2. strip off sod, leave some for paths
3. mix seed with sand, scatter
2. 3.
4. plant plugs of more mature
plants
5. mulch with straw hay
4. 5.
6. water well for two weeks
7. observe weekly
6. 7.
how to make a meadow

16. eat your lawn, feed your soul
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Sarah Frazer, Ben Kessler & Cake Namdol