Sharing Knowledge,
Supporting Conservation
We share knowledge and support the conservation of native plants and native plant habitat in Alberta through outreach, publications and guidelines, stewardship, advocacy, research, and funding and implementing native plant projects.
Featured News and Events
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A Tour of Alberta’s Natural Regions, and their Plants
This new Storymap developed by University of Alberta students for the ANPC takes you on a tour of Alberta’s Natural Regions and Subregions, highlighting their characteristic and rare plant species, as well as threats facing…
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April 30, 2025 – Central Alberta Plant Study Group
The next Central Alberta (Edmonton) Plant Study Group will be held on Wednesday, April 30th at 6:30 pm at the University of Alberta Herbarium (BioSci B-512). The topic this month is ACIMS: Getting to know…
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May 24, 2025 – Registration Now Open for Annual Workshop: Plants Through Time
The 2025 Workshop is happening on May 24th in Red Deer, Alberta! Some of this year’s workshop “Plants through Time” will highlight how plants, habitats, conservation and people’s knowledge have evolved through time, from decades…
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May 25-31, 2025 – May Plant Count Events
These events are part of the province-wide May Species Count and are supported by both Nature Alberta and the ANPC, with the emphasis on tracking the flowering stage of vascular plants. For more information, go…
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June 13-15, 2025: Botany Alberta in the Beaver Hills Biosphere
Join us for this year’s Botany Alberta event in the Beaver Hills Biosphere, east of Edmonton. We will be hosting this year’s event out of the Strathcona Wilderness Centre, from Friday, June 13th to Sunday…
Featured Activities
Featured Resources
NEW! Native Plant Suppliers and Demonstration Bed Interactive Map:
Featured Publications
The Rare Vascular Plants of Alberta, 2nd edition (RVPA2)
Now available for purchase and can be ordered through UBC Press.
Vascular Flora of Alberta: An Illustrated Guide
Available as a paperback or e-book through Amazon.ca. The guide includes illustrated keys to all native and naturalized vascular plants in Alberta.
Vascular Flora of Alberta: Illustrations and Maps
An accompanying resource to the keys, with enhanced illustrations and maps. Available through Amazon.ca.
Wildflowers of Whitehorse Wildland Provincial Park
Available through the Alberta Native Plant Council.
Acknowledging Land and People
We acknowledge that what we call Alberta is the traditional and ancestral territory of many peoples, presently subject to Treaties 6, 7, and 8. Namely: the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika – the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, and the Tsuut’ina Nation and the Métis People of Alberta. This includes the Métis Settlements and the Six Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta within the historical Northwest Metis Homeland. We acknowledge the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived in and cared for these lands for generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We make this acknowledgement as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on or are visiting.