Alberta Native Plant Council

Vascular Flora of Alberta

Vascular Flora of Alberta: An Illustrated Guide

– is available as a paperback or e-book through Amazon.ca. The guide includes illustrated keys to all native and naturalized vascular plants in Alberta. The development of a set of keys for the 2000+ vascular plants in AB was a complex undertaking, and as the keys are used and as new information becomes available, the Authors decided to keep them as correct and as up-to-date as possible by collecting changes and producing up-dated versions (printings) when it seemed warranted. The 5th Printing (October 2022) is now available and includes new enhancements, some taxonomic changes and a few corrections. Since its 1st Printing in June 2020, the book has undergone several revisions/printings (see the table below). To keep those who have purchased the guide apprised of these changes, ANPC has allowed us to post the changes on their website. Lists of Errata and Enhancements for each printing are available, so that no matter which printing you have, it is possible to keep up-to-date by incorporating information from the links in the following table.

Printing Changes Instructions
1st Printing June 2020 1st Printing Errata and Enhancements here. If you have the 1st Printing, (June 2020 on pg. iv), consider adding these and all of the following Errata and Enhancements to your book.
2nd Printing November 2020 2nd Printing Errata and Enhancements here If you have the 2nd Printing, (see pg. iv), your book already includes the earlier changes.  Consider adding these and all of the following Errata and Enhancements.
3rd Printing April 2021 3rd Printing Errata and Enhancements here If you have the 3rd Printing, (see pg. iv), your book already includes the earlier changes.  Consider adding these and all of the following errata and enhancements.
4th Printing February 2022 NEW 4th Printing Errata and Enhancements here If you have the 4th Printing, (see pg. iv), your book already includes the earlier changes.  Consider adding these errata and enhancements.
5th Printing October 2022 If you have the 5th Printing, (see pg. iv), you are up to date!

Please note: The series of draft keys previously posted on the ANPC web site have now been removed. Since they were posted, all of the keys have been incorporated into the book “Vascular Flora of Alberta: An Illustrated Guide”. We have made 1000s of changes to the draft keys, to enhance them and to address problems. Last spring, we decided that the draft keys were just too outdated to retain, so we asked the ANPC to remove them from the website.
   Linda Kershaw and Lorna Allen

 

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