Horticulture and Gardening Research Guide: MSU, MI Resources

First place to look for answers to gardening in Michigan questions.

A guide to information about the history of plants on campus, with links to current guides as well.

The Liberty Hyde Bailey, Jr., papers comprise 1.2 cubic feet and consist of correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, writings by Bailey, photographs, and an 1888 record of ornamental plants at Michigan Agricultral College.
Note - Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was born in South Haven, Michigan, and graduated from Michigan Agricultural College in 1882. He studied botany at Harvard University, and returned to M.A.C. in 1885 to chair the new Horticulture Department. In 1901, he edited COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA, an early broad-page magazine, and became known as the "father" of rural sociology and agricultural journalism. He chaired the presidential Commission on Country Life, which was in part responsible for the passage of the Smith Lever Act in 1914, establishing the Cooperative Extension Service and 4-H Youth Programs. Bailey authored numerous books and papers, primarily on agriculture. A Michigan State University dormitory in the Brody Complex was named in his honor.
UNIV ARCH & HIST COLL - UA 10.3.1

Herbaria are libraries of preserved plants, fungi, and algae and their function is to document biodiversity. Many herbaria, including the MSU Herbarium, hold botanical specimens that were collected from around the world as well as significant regional plant collections. Their contents depend on the interests and research of the people associated with each particular herbarium: For example, many of the researchers at the MSU Herbarium have studied lichens, and thus we have one of the largest lichen collections in North America.

MSU has several outlying research centers and on-campus research facilities that provide growers, natural resource managers and commodity groups with critical information they need to remain viable and competitive in the global economy. The site maps the location of each center and identifies their research specialties.

MSU Turf Weeds.net helps identify, understand, and control lawn weeds. This site is designed so you can easily learn key identification characteristics of common and not-so-common turfgrass weeds found in lawns, golf courses, athletic fields, and sod farms in Michigan and the midwest.

The immediate goals of MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE are to present, in a searchable and browsable form, the basic information about all vascular plants known to occur outside of cultivation in the state. This includes, unlike the published Michigan Flora, the spore bearing vascular plants (ferns, horsetails, club mosses, etc.).

p 114-147. One hundredth annual report of the secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan for the year 1970. SB21 .M55 v.100-103 1970-1973

First Report of the Michigan Academy of Science (1900): 32–36.

[Lansing, Mich., 1884?] 35 p. map (fold.) 8vo Link goes to document in HathiTrust

Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. Vol. 29. pp. 481-491
Call no.: F561 .M47 v. 29
[link goes to full article in Google Books]

Western Michigan University, 1972