Montana Native Plant Society

Montana's native plants and their communities

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

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    • Important Plant Areas
    • Threats
  • Landscaping
    • How to identify natives
    • Native plant gardens
      • Helena’s Sixth Ward Park Native Plant Garden
      • Lackschewitz-Preece Montana Native Botanic Garden
    • Where to buy native plants & seeds

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

Audubon Native Plant database
Creating Native Landscapes by the Montana NRCS
NewDirections in the American Landscape (for-profit)
Wild Ones – A nonprofit promoting the use of native plantings

Conservation

Alberta Prairie Conservation Forum 
American Forests
Bridger (MT) Plants Material Center
Center for Biological Diversity Native Plant Conservation Campaign

Center for Plant Conservation
Montana Natural Heritage Program
Nature Serve
Plantlife International
Saskatchewan Prairie Conservation Action Plan

Invasives/Weeds

Montana noxious weeds
Weed Seedling guide to ID noxious plants (for sale, 2025)
Center for Invasive Plant Management
About Roundup & Roundup alternatives

Pollinators

– Of Bees and Blooms from USDA & NRCS
– Pollinator Page from the US Forest Service
– Ecoregional Planting Guides from the Pollinator Partnership
– Planting for Pollinators from MT DNRC Conservation Seedling Nursery
– Pollinators Forever from Montana FWP

Focusing on Monarch butterflies …
– Monarchs & Milkweed
– Milkweeds of Montana & Wyoming
– Monarch Nectar plants for N Great Plains
– Monarch Nectar plants for Rocky Mtns
– How Milkweed Grows from the Nature Institute
– Please Do NOT Grow Tropical Milkweed from the Xerces Society

Botany

Botanical Society of America
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature 
Internet Directory for Botany – An old site with links to other websites
Rocky Mountain Herbarium in Wyoming, the world’s largest collection of Rocky Mtn plants

Other handy links

Biota of North America Program
Flora of North America
Floral Reflectance Data Base (FReD) 
International Organization for Plant Information
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Lichens
Michigan Botanical Club
Missouri Botanical Garden

Montana Plant Life – Flora & Identification
MT Outdoors Blog – Wildflower photos
Mosses
Mushrooms
Native Orchid Conference
NRCS Plants Database
Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
Trees – Arbor Day Foundation
Trees – National Forest Foundation

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Contact us at PO Box 8783, Missoula, MT 59807
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