Useful Links
Active Transportation planning & design
So many angles and issues, this is only a beginning.
- VDOT Manuals and Guides
- VDOT Bike-Pedestrian Program (many more useful links!)
- Pedestrian & Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
- Ass'n. of Pedestrian & Bicycle Professionals (APBP)
- FHWA Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)
- VDOT Supplement to MUTCD
- FHWA Bike-Ped Safety
- VDOT Tableau Crashtools for researching crash patterns
Landscape Design: Plant Selection Tools
Each of these has strengths and weaknesses. Most include non-natives but allow you to filter to select only natives, but even then, they are not very precise about native ranges.
Landscape Design: Growers
Statewide Nursery & Landscape Associations often have tools for matching the plant you need with growers who grow it.
- Virginia - Guide to Virginia Growers
- North Carolina
- West Virginia (link broken)
Native Plants
These can help you figure out if a plant you are considering is native to your state or region.
- Virginia Plant Atlas is probably the most reliable and precise source for native plants in VA, based on the Flora of Virginia project.
- USDA Plants database takes a more national vantage point, but it sometimes seems to blur the lines: plants native elsewhere in the US can be labeled native in states where they were not native.
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- National Wildlife Federation
Native plant societies offer hordes of info on their websites, including lists of growers who specialize in native plants
- Virginia Native Plant Society
- VNPS native plant nurseries list
- North Carolina Native Plant Society
- NCNPS native plant nurseries list
- West Virginia Native Plant Society
- WVNPS native plant sources (scroll down)
- Tennessee Native Plant Society
The other side of the coin is those troublesome invasive exotic plants.
More coming soon ...
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