Montana Native Plant Society

Focused on Native Plants and Plant Communities of Montana

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“…to preserve, conserve, and study Montana’s native plants and plant communities.”

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    • Kelseya Recent Issues
    • Kelseya Archive
    • Kelseya Selected Reprints
    • Lewis and Clark Plants
    • Montana’s Pioneer Botanists
    • Other Montana Native Plant Society publications
    • Native plant links
  • Activities
    • Annual Meetings
    • MNPS Presents – Online Programs
    • Chapters
    • At-Large Areas
    • Summer Field Trips Statewide
  • State Society
    • Board of Directors
    • Elections
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    • Small Grants Program
  • Conservation
    • Conservation
    • Conservation Issues
    • Conservation Conference
    • Montana Species of Concern Threat Assignment
    • Important Plant Areas
  • Landscaping
    • Native Plant Landscaping
    • Flathead Valley Native Plant Landscaping
    • Helena Area Native Plant Landscaping
    • Missoula & West-Central Montana Native Plant Landscaping
    • Lackschewitz – Preece Montana Native Botanic Garden

Native plant links

Neighboring native plant societies

Alberta 
Arizona
British Columbia
California
Colorado
Great Plains (the Dakotas, Nebraska)
Idaho and northern Idaho
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Saskatchewan
Utah
Washington
Wyoming

Landscaping

Creating Native Landscapes by the Montana NRCS
Wild Ones – A nonprofit promoting the use of native plantings

Conservation

Alberta Prairie Conservation Forum 
American Forests
Center for Biological Diversity Native Plant Conservation Campaign
Center for Plant Conservation
Montana Conservation Voters
Montana Natural Heritage Program
Nature Serve
Plantlife International

Invasives/weeds

Center for Invasive Plant Management
Montana Noxious Weeds

Botany

Botanical Society of America
Botanical word meanings and name derivations
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature 
Internet Directory for Botany – An old site with links to other websites, organized alphabetically

Other handy links

Biota of North America Program
Bridger Plants Material Center
Flora of North America
Floral Reflectance Data Base – FReD 
International Organization for Plant Information
Internet directory for ecology
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Michigan Botanical Club
Missouri Botanical Garden
Montana Plant Life-Flora and Identification
Montana Outdoors Blog – Wildflower photos from the Missoula area
NRCS Plants Database

KELSEYA, the MNPS newsletter,

is published four times a year and is included with your membership.
 Kelseya contains timely articles about Montana plants and their communities, listings of chapter and state meetings and field trips, and updates on native plant issues.

For questions about MNPS,

including becoming a member or chapter policies or programs, contact our Vice-President, Robert Pal.




We appreciate your support and wish to acknowledge your donation in our newsletter!

Chapters

For information about activities in your area, or to seek information about plants or resources in your area, please contact the chapter closest to you (click on Activities Drop Down Menu at the top of this page): Calypso (Dillon, Butte, Southwest Montana; Clark Fork, (Missoula, West Central Montana); Kelsey (Greater Helena and Great Falls areas,  and regions associated with the Rocky Mountain Front and central and north central Montana.); Flathead (Northwest Montana, Glacier Park); Maka Flora (Eastern Montana); Valley of Flowers (greater Bozeman area), or check out the Eastern- or Western-at-Large Areas on the same menu.

MT Native Plants Society Contact

To write or comment…

Montana Native Plant Society
P.O. Box 8783
Missoula, MT 59807-8783

For comments on this website, including updates and corrections, contact
 Bob Person

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