The Grassland Heritage Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 membership organization dedicated to prairie preservation and education.

A joint program of the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Missouri Department of Agriculture (MDA), the Grow Native! program helps protect and restore our state's biodiversity by increasing conservation awareness of native plants and their effective use.

The Grow Native! program also has a plant identification section on their web site.

Kansas City Wildlands is a local coalition protecting biological diversity through citizen-based restoration of Kansas City's natural communities.

The Land Institute is a non-profit research and education organization. Their purpose is to develop an agricultural system with the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops.

The Midwest Invasive Plant Network's mission is to reduce the impact of invasive plant species in the Midwest.

The Missouri Department of Conservation has been instrumental in the restoration of South Fork Prairie. Without their assistance, work completed thus far would not have happened. We will be forever grateful for all of the help we've received from these dedicated professionals. As part of their Grow Native! project, they a maintain a very useful web site for native plant identification.

The Missouri Department of Conservation also maintains on-line information from the the Missouri Natural Heritage Database in which lists species of special status in each Missouri county.

The purpose of the Missouri Native Plant Society is to promote the enjoyment, preservation, conservation, restoration, and study of the flora native to Missouri; to educate the public about the values of the beauty, diversity, and environmental importance of indigenous vegetation; and to publish related information.

The Missouri Prairie Foundation is a charitable organization, founded to preserve some of the rapidly disappearing prairie landscape in Missouri and to secure habitat for Missouri's diminishing population of Greater Prairie Chickens.

USDA, NRCS. 2004.
The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov).
National Plant Data Center
Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references, crop information, and automated tools.

The goal of the Native Plant Network is to provide technical and practical information on the growing and planting of North American native plants. In addition to their published journal they provide an on-line data base of information on native plant propagation.

Prairies Forever is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the ecological and cultural significance of the American prairie through education, outreach, and public engagement.

It's through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that we received initial funding for the restoration of South Fork Prairie. Here's the website for their Partners for Wildlife program (http://partners.fws.gov).