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Hausman, Constance E., Sarah R. Eysenbach, John E. Reiner and Michael F. Breth. 2017. Landscaping for Biodiversity with Ohio Native Plants: A Species Guide for Planting, Cleveland Metroparks Technical Report 2017/02. Division of Natural Resources, Cleveland Metroparks, Parma, Ohio
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Website References
Illinois Wildflower website - http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/index.htm
Landscaping for Biodiversity with Ohio Native Plants, A Species Guide for Planting, Cleveland Metroparks Technicial Report 2017/02 https://www.clevelandmetroparks.com/getmedia/420fa064-156d-4ec2-a35a-39663c8d720a/2017NR02_Landscaping-for-Biodiversity.pdf.ashx
Ohio Division of Natural Areas and Preserves, Department of Natural Resources http://naturepreserves.ohiodnr.gov/rareplants
Prairie Moon Nursery - www.prairiemoon.com
Restoration, Nurseries & Genetic Resources (RNGR) https://www.rngr.net/
USDA Natural Resource Conservation Services website - http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=VEST
Scientific Papers
Houseal, Greg, Propagation and Agronomic Seed Increase of Native Sedges (Carex), Tall Grass Prairie Center, University of Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
Kephart, S., Reynolds, R. J., Rutter, M. T., Fenster, C. B. and Dudash, M. R. (2006), Pollination and seed predation by moths on Silene and allied Caryophyllaceae: evaluating a model system to study the evolution of mutualisms. New Phytologist, 169: 667–680. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01619.x
Reynolds, R. J., Westbrook, M. J., Rohde, A. S., Cridland, J. M., Fenster, C. B. and Dudash, M. R. (2009), Pollinator specialization and pollination syndromes of three related North American Silene. Ecology, 90: 2077–2087. doi:10.1890/08-1141.1