Locating native plants for your garden

How do people find native plants for their garden?  Here is a great article on just that.  One more thing to keep in mind is to make sure the source of your plants in NOT digging/stealing them from the wild, but is propagating the plants themselves.  Stolen plants are now becoming a big and dangerous problem for many of the rarer plants.  Check out your sources before you buy so you too don't become part of the problem.  Also I have included a link to the Lady Bird Johnson site where you can search for good places to buy, (sadly the link in the article is no good).  I like to buy as many of my plants as seed.  That way I know that the plants themselves have not been stolen from their native environment.
http://www.audubonmagazine.org/articles/nature/how-buy-native-plants

Lady Bird Johnson Center Suppliers
http://www.wildflower.org/suppliers/

Declining Butterflies, have you noticed a difference where you live?

Sad to say, but I have up here in Northern Maine.  This year I have only seen 2 swallowtail and 3 monarchs, and they were small.  Read the article here from the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/butterfly-decline-signals-trouble-in-environment/2013/06/30/b86b8cf4-da8c-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html