A shrub of variable height in the rose family (Rosaceae), saskatoon is probably one of the best-known and loved native species in the...

Most people encounter the balsam family, Balsaminaceae, through busy lizzie, Impatiens walleriana, the common annual of municipal garden...

Naturalization is a term that Edmontonians are hearing a lot these days, especially now as the City of Edmonton launches its new...

Native Ground Covers Common wild strawberry, Fragaria virginiana, is a low-growing perennial that forms excellent ground cover and is...

Originally published June 2023, Wildflower News. “Contrary to large organisms, studies on the impact of microbial invasions are less...

I have been growing native plants for a long time, but it has only been in the last few years that I have had a chance to experience and...

In the Interior Plains of North America, aspen parkland extends as an arc some 200 to 250 km wide from the foothills of the Rocky...

Some Spring-flowering Grasses Identifying grasses depends first and foremost on what they look like, of course, but other characteristics...

grassland ecologist Lysandra Pyle presented on the subject of the Grasses of the Edmonton Region.

The Research On September 13 I watched a presentation with the above title given by Dr. Heather Kharouba of the University of Ottawa,...

By Patsy Cotterill The onset of autumn and a misidentification in a draft version of the October WN got me thinking that larches might...

By Patsy Cotterill ENPS has acquired several new members in recent months and it has been suggested that a primer on native plants and...

Plant seed collecting is easy, once you follow the main rules.

Article and photos by Patsy Cotterill Wildflower News, February 2013 Originally published under “Parkland Plant Notes” in The Parkland...

by Patsy Cotterill. All photos by author. WF News, Sep 2022 Slim-stemmed reedgrass, Calamagrostis stricta We have already encountered the...