Enjoy

Sociability with fellow members—at our plant sale, hikes, garden tour, annual conference, and volunteer activities—is one of the most rewarding aspects of membership. Lifelong friends are made while working shoulder-to-shoulder to advance the INPS mission.

Inspire

The future of Indiana’s biodiversity rests with the next generation of environmental stewards. INPS members are reaching out to young people and to the public to share their expertise and passion. We’ll show you how to be an ambassador for native plants.

Protect

Our biodiversity is in crisis. Day by day we’re losing Indiana’s rich natural heritage to human encroachment and invasive plants. Learn what INPS and its conservation partners are doing to preserve native plants. Get to know the worst invasive plants and how to control them.

Grow

Gardeners have an important role in restoring Indiana’s biodiversity. Learn how easily you can incorporate native plants in your landscape. We help you get started and show you where to purchase native plants.

Share

Instill your passion for wildflowers in a child. Wake Up Woods, our forthcoming book, introduces spring ephemerals and their insect companions with beautiful illustrations and verse, and reveals the science behind nature’s annual floral show to the delight of children and adults alike.

Greet

Visit Indiana native plants where they live and experience the joy of discovering them in their natural habitats. We provide the tools you need to find, identify, and document native plants when you venture into Indiana’s wild places.

Meet

Indiana native plants include more than pretty wildflowers. Explore the trees, shrubs, grasses, and ferns that make up Indiana’s natural plant communities. Learn why native plants are crucial to the web of life and to our future.

Welcome

Welcome to the Indiana Native Plant Society.

Whatever your interest—protecting natural places, adding native plants to your garden, photographing wildflowers, or lending expertise to our community of native plant enthusiasts—there’s a place for you here.

Together we’re working to create healthy ecosystems, teach the next generation to love the land, and save the wild beauty of Indiana.

 

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