I would be happy to try to identify any wild plant that you might find growing in your yard or along the roadside. Bring me a photograph, send an e-mail picture, or, best, bring a pressed specimen. But please don't pick anything growing in a natural area unless it is very abundant.
I have made a collection of over 1,000 pressed plants growing wild in Lambton. Some are 40 years old. About two-thirds of these are native.

From all available records, John and I have compiled a list of all the plants that have ever been reported growing out of cultivation in Lambton. We also have a good library of reference books about plants.

I would like to add that my favorite manual for:

• wildflowers (forbs) is Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, by Lawrence Newcomb, Little, Brown & Co.; and for
  
• grassses, sedges and rushes (graminoids) is the Michigan Flora, Part 1, by Edward G.Voss, Cranbrook Institute of Science and Universiity of Michigan herbarium.

Ian Harris worked as a research scientist with Petrosar. When he retired, scientific curiosity pushed him to do some more research. He chose the invertibrates in the sediment of the St. Clair River for two reasons. Firstly, he loved "messing about in boats" and secondly because he had always loved and admired the St Clair River. He believes this River, which is technically a Strait, has been in existence for at least 10,000 years. This project took nine years and included a study of the North Sydenham River for comparison purposes.He found the creatures; worms, clams,beetles etc. very interesting. Ian is currently studying the invertibrates in a forest at Port Franks.

Recommended reading:

• 1.The Key Nature Series on Insects
• 2.The Earthworms of Ontario, Royal Ontario Museum
• 3.Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America, R.W.Merrit and K.W.Cummins