Category: Calgary Plant Study Group

Join the Calgary Plant Study Group on March 7th for A WILDFLOWER IDENTIFICATION WORKSHOP! Brush-up on your identification skills with a walk through our meadow of pressed specimens. We will simulate a May Plant Species Count right here in the Lab. Suitable for novice to advanced participants.Participants will have hands-on time to examine herbarium specimens…

***RESCHEDULED*** Join the Calgary Plant Study Group on March 28, 2026 for GET TO KNOW PLANT FAMILIES, a workshop introducing the basics of plant family identification. We will explore key morphological features used to classify plants into families. For each plant family, we’ll “meet the relatives” by providing examples of common genera. Participants will have…

Join the Calgary Plant Study Group on January 24th for PLANTS ON THE PAGE! – A workshop to explore the practice of writing about nature with a focus on botany and botanical themed fiction and non-fiction. Heather Clitheroe, a Science Fiction and Fantasy author and PhD candidate with the University of CalgaryEnglish Department, will guide…

Join the Calgary Plant Study Group on February 7th, 2026, for GET TO KNOW PLANT FAMILIES, a workshop introducing the basics of plant family identification. We will explore key morphological features used to classify plants into families. For each plant family, we’ll “meet the relatives” by providing examples of common genera. Participants will have hands-on…

Join the Calgary Plant Study Group on December 6th for A PEAK BEHIND THE DOORS – a Tour of the University of Calgary Herbarium! Housing over 102,500 vascular specimens with an additional 15,000 non-vascular specimens, the Herbarium is dedicated to the collection, preservation and documentation of plant biodiversity for scientific study. The collections include vascular plants, mosses, algae and fungi from…

Join the Calgary Plant Study Group on November 1st for Exploring Botanical Taxonomy and Terminology to Help Understand Plant Identification Guides. Bring your favorite guide book and a notebook for some hands-on exploration of herbarium plants. This group meets at the Herbarium at the University of Calgary from 1:00-3:00 pm. RSVP to calgarypsg@anpc.ab.ca to attend.…

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…

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…

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…

The Calgary Plant Study Group is back! Flood damage to the Isaac Rotstein Memorial Herbarium at the University of Calgary has been repaired. Our next meeting will be on February 1st and will highlight specimens from the recently donated collection of Isaac Rotstein. Isaac collected the world over and prepared his pressed plants with detailed…