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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April 12, 2025 AGM Announcement
Join us on April 12th for our Annual General Meeting followed by a special presentation by Knowledge Keeper Matricia Brown, who will be sharing her Cree culture with the ANPC community on the use of…
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Native Plant Suppliers Interactive Map
We are pleased to announce we’ve developed an interactive map of all the native plant suppliers in Alberta and our neighbouring jurisdictions! This map was developed using our Native Plant Source List (Excel). New suppliers…
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March 26, 2025 – Central Alberta Plant Study Group
The next Central Alberta (Edmonton) Plant Study Group will be held on Wednesday, March 26th at 6:30 pm at the University of Alberta Herbarium (BioSci B-512). The topic this month is Boreal Wetlands: From classification…
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April 5, 2025 – Calgary Plant Study Group – Think Spring!
Join us on Saturday, April 5th from 1:00-3:00 pm at the University of Calgary herbarium to sharpen your identification skills, and bring your favourite guide books for a botanical walk “through a meadow of spring…
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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…
Featured Activities
Featured Resources
NEW! ANPC Native Plant Suppliers 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.