A reference work for prairie habitat
432 native and prairie-hardy plants, and the 1138 animals documented to use them.
Native plants of Alberta and the Canadian prairies, and the animals that depend on them. Every relationship here is a documented record with a source: 7574 of them, of which 31 involve an animal that has nowhere else to go.
Search all 432 plants Start from an animal
- Species
- 432
- Documented relationships
- 7574
- Searchable fields
- 21
- With a credited photograph
- 321
Where things grow
Each region below is a page. On a species page the same map is shaded to show where that plant has actually been recorded, with the occurrence count and confidence behind every region.
Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre.
By flower colour
Grasses and sedges have a bucket of their own. They are wind-pollinated, so what you see is the seed head, not a bloom, and filing them under yellow would claim something the data does not say.
By bloom month
A species with no recorded bloom window is listed under no month. We do not know when it flowers, and that is not the same as knowing it does not flower then.
By what it does
By growth form
Start from the animal instead
Most plant catalogues can tell you what a plant looks like. This one can tell you which caterpillars eat it, which bees can physically reach its nectar, and which of them have no alternative, because the catalogue is built on the relationships rather than on the plants.