Category: Events
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October 20th, 2025 – NEW Grande Prairie Plant Study Group
ANPC is pleased to announce that we are restarting our Grande Prairie Plant Study Group in collaboration with the Peace Parkland Naturalists. The first talk will be held on Monday, October 20th from 6:30-8:00 pm. Alexandra Mykitiuk will be leading this plant study group and providing the first presentation entitled “The Colours of Autumn: Understanding…
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October 4, 2025 – Calgary Plant Study Group
Join the Calgary Plant Study Group on October 4th for Winter Botany 101: The Forest Floor – Wintergreens. Bring your favourite floral guide and a notebook for a hands-on exploration of plants that keep our winter green. The group will meet at the Herbarium at the University of Calgary at 1-3 pm. RSVP to calgarypsg@anpc.ab.ca…
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September 24, 2025 – Central Alberta Plant Study Group
The next Central Alberta (Edmonton) Plant Study Group will be held on Wednesday, September 24th at 6:30 pm at the University of Alberta Herbarium (BioSci B-512). The topic this month is Past, Present and Future of Herbaria, presented by Jocelyn Hall. Note if you have trouble accessing the building, your best route is through CCIS,…
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June 13-15, 2025: Botany Alberta in the Beaver Hills Biosphere
Join us for Botany Alberta from Friday, June 13, to Sunday, June 15, 2025, at the Strathcona Wilderness Centre in the Beaver Hills Biosphere, just east of Edmonton! Registration for Botany Alberta has closed. Weekend Guided Hikes: These field trips will showcase the region’s rolling terrain, which supports a mosaic of ecosystems, including lakes, wetlands…
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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 here: May Plant Count 1. May 25, 2025 Clyde Fen May Plant Count Located just minutes outside of Clyde, AB,…
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May 24, 2025 – ANPC 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 to thousands of years. Our Keynote Speaker will be Jenny L. McCune with the University of Lethbridge (http://jlmccune.weebly.com/) speaking on…
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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 to delineation, an interactive workshop, presented by Morgan Randall. Note if you have trouble accessing the building, your best route…
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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 flowers” a.k.a. bench tops of pressed specimens! We’ll work together to identify some of the early native plants that will…
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March 1, 2025 – Calgary Plant Study Group
The next meeting of the Calgary Plant Study Group is Saturday, March 1st: Establishment and Maintenance of Native Plant Communities. Nathan Gill & Kaitlin Mercier from EcoLogic Horticulture, a local plant nursery and seed supplier, will present on the challenges facing large-scale native plant restoration and landscaping projects as well as tried and tested solutions…
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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 the Alberta Conservation Data Centre, presented by Joshua Wasyliw. Note if you have trouble accessing the building, your best route…