Natural and Native Flora - Books or Web Sites

I own a house roughly on the northern Illinois - Southern Wisconsin border. About 20% of the land (roughly a quarter of an acre) has been left to go wild by the previous owners. A couple of years ago, I did a burn of a small portion of it and tossed in native seeds scavenged from a friend's yard. The seeds took hold, germinated pretty well and presented us with flowers amazingly.

My question is... Any recommendations on books on this subject, either in terms of selection of plants or care? Or, any suggestions on similarly topical web sites? Thanks!

Just offhand...

A couple of blogs that might be inspiring / informative. The authors both spoke at the Millersville Native Plant Conference this past spring.

http://delafleur.com/blog/
http://www.delafleur.com/
The author is in Illinois.

http://milktheweed.blogspot.com/
http://deepmiddle.blogspot.com/
The author is in Nebraska.

The Living Landscape by Doug Tallamy and Rick Darke
A followup to Bringing Nature Home, with practical advice. My impression is that it covers different regions of the US, but I don’t have it yet so I’m not certain.

>2 qebo: Well, now here is a coincidence! You were kind enough to answer my plea for info on books/web sites on natural plantings. I've only checked out delafleur so far. It turns out that he lives/and the land subject of his web site is under 10 miles from my home and less than a mile from a close relative's house.

I've also briefly looked at the other sites and will check out the books mentioned.

Thanks much!

Teresa Marrone has several publications focusing on fruits and berries native in the Midwestern states.

>3 bookblotter: Oh isn't that cool!

>4 2wonderY: We have a mulberry tree on the lot and when it's bearing fruit, we're really popular with the local fauna - from raccoons and squirrels to deer. And, thanks for the reading leads.

>5 qebo: Yes, it is cool. I even walked the little guy on Google maps down delafleur's street and past his house, native plantings and all.

Check out this blog & his book. The author was a grad student when I was in college. I think he's in Northern IL.
http://sustainingbeauty.net/

>7 jljames1_79: Oh, nice! I didn't know about this one. I'm in Pennsylvania but there's lots of overlap.

>7 jljames1_79: Thanks, jljarnes1_79. I found the book referred to and it is "Native Plants in the Home Landscape for the Upper Midwest" by Keith Gerard Nowakowski and published by the University of Illinois Extension.

I have purchased that book and did a sort of preliminary, brief review, here.