For information on native plants

If you're looking for information on native plants, the place to start is usually your local native plant society. Here's a list of native plant societies in the United States and Canada that's accurate as of today, May 24, 2009.

First, here are some cross-border organizations:

• For all of North America but especially Canada (it was originally the Canadian Wildflower Society), see the North American Native Plant Society.


• For New England states, especially Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont, see the website of the New England Wildflower Society.


• For Midwestern states and a few others, see the Wild Ones.


• For the New York City metropolitan area, see NY-NJ-CT Botany Online.


• For Western New York state and nearby areas of Ontario, see the Niagara Frontier Botanical Society.


• For the Great Plains Biogeographic Region, which runs from central Canada to Texas, see the Great Plains Native Plant Society.


• For prairies of the upper Midwest, see the Prairie Enthusiasts.

If you have trouble getting information from any of the other sources listed here, try the organizations directory maintained by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

Additional organizations are listed here by state and province, with the states and provinces arranged in alphabetical order:

• Alabama Wildflower Society


• Wildflowers of Alabama


• Alaska Native Plant Society


• Alberta Native Plant Council


• Arizona Native Plant Society


• Arkansas Native Plant Society


• Native Plant Society of British Columbia


• Victoria [British Columbia] Horticultural Society


• California Botanical Society


• California Native Plant Society


• Colorado Native Plant Society


• Connecticut Botanical Society


• Southern California Botanists


• Delaware Native Plant Society


• Botanical Society of Washington [District of Columbia]


• Florida Native Plant Society


• Georgia Native Plant Society


• Georgia Botanical Society


• Native Hawaiian Plant Society


• Idaho Native Plant Society


• Illinois Native Plant Society


• Grand Prairie Friends of Illinois


• Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society


• Iowa Native Plant Society


• Iowa Prairie Network


• The Grassland Heritage Foundation [Kansas]


• Kansas Native Plant Society


• Kentucky Native Plant Society


• Folsom [Louisiana] Native Plant Society


• Louisiana Native Plant Society


• Maryland Native Plant Society


• Minnesota Native Plant Society


• Missouri Native Plant Society


• Missouri Prairie Foundation


• Montana Native Plant Society


• Nebraska Native Plant Society


• Nevada Native Plant Society


• New Brunswick Botany Club


• Native Plant Society of New Jersey


• The Wildflower Society of Newfoundland and Labrador


• Native Plant Society of New Mexico


• Finger Lakes [New York] Native Plant Society


• New York Flora Association


• North Carolina Native Plant Society


• Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society


• Native Plant Society of Northeastern Ohio


• Ohio Native Plant Society


• Ohio Prairie Association


• Oklahoma Native Plant Society


• University of Oklahoma Botanical Society


• Field Botanists of Ontario


• Waterloo-Wellington [Ontario] Wildflower Society


• Native Plant Society of Oregon


• Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] Botanical Club


• Delaware Valley [Pennsylvania] Fern & Wildflower Society


• Pennsylvania Native Plant Society


• Heliconia Society of Puerto Rico


• Rhode Island Wild Plant Society


• Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan


• South Carolina Native Plant Society


• Tennessee Native Plant Society


• Native Plant Society of Texas


• Native Plant Project of the Lower Rio Grande Valley [Texas]


• Native Prairies Association of Texas


• Utah Native Plant Society


• Virginia Native Plant Society


• Washington Native Plant Society


• West Virginia Native Plant Society


• Botanical Club of Wisconsin


• Wyoming Native Plant Society

Many thanks to the Michigan Botanical Club, which provided the list I updated in order to create the one above.

The illustration at the top of this post is a free sample courtesy of Dover Publications, from their Crafter's Cornucopia CD-Rom and Book.