I am greatly indebted to many books, websites, and facebook groups for the help in identification of many of these plants, birds, fungi, reptiles, and insects (the mammals I have pretty much down, thankfully!). I have listed them below, and have always noted in the various posts when I have quoted directly from a source.
BOOKS
- “Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains & Piedmont” by Timothy P. Spira
- “North American Mushrooms” by Dr. Orson K. Miller Jr. and Hope H. Miller
- “Piedmont Native Plants” by Repp Glaettli
WEBSITES
- wildflower.org – Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- vnps.org – Virginia Native Plant Society
- mushroomexpert.com – Michael Kuo‘s massive site
- virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com – Virginia Herpetological Society
- illinoiswildflowers.info – Illinois Wildflowers
- allaboutbirds.org – Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s bird identification website
- creativecommons.org – When we share, everybody wins (used for some photos)
- wikipedia.com – you know what this is
Featured Image Credit: “Robert Pocock Herbarium Project – Observations and Memoranda in Botany” by NATT-at-NKM is licensed under CC BY 2.0