Native range
Native plants of Alberta
48 wild species and 15 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Alberta, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 31 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
Showing 1 to 60 of 63 plants
How this list is made
Derived from each plant's native-range record, checked against Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS with every decision on a ledger; Alberta is read off the record's own range, and the order is how many of the record's areas each plant reaches, then by name, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 63 plants, 59 have been checked against outside sources; the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
Range data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 4.0, adapted) and USDA PLANTS. How the native range is credited.
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Garden forms of Alberta natives
31 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Alberta and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Abbotswood
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Bar Harbor Juniper
- Black Hills Spruce
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- Blue Chip Juniper
- Blue Rug Juniper
- Claire Grace
- Compact Andorra Juniper
- Deschampsia Goldtau Grass
- Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Goldfinger
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- Orange Whisper
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Whisper
- Red Ace
- Regent Serviceberry
- Skyrocket Juniper
- Snow Flurry
- Tangerine
- Twilight Zone
Plant groups native to Alberta
15 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Alberta; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the province.
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