Add Native Plants to Your Landscape
We help you get started and show you where to purchase native plants.
Visit Native Plants in the Wild
Discover native plants in their natural habitats and learn how to identify them.
Make Lifelong Friends
Find kindred spirits at our plant sale, garden tours, annual conference, and volunteer activities.
Ready for Spring?
You’ll want to have read this book together when you and a child venture out in Indiana’s waking woods this spring. Did you know the Library of Congress selected Wake Up, Woods as Indiana’s children’s title in the National Book Festival?
The book is available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Kids Ink, and many retail locations.
Coming Up
- North Chapter: Edible Spring Wild Mushrooms, March 15
- South Central Chapter: Hike Burkhart Creek Park, March 21
- Southwest Chapter: Growing and Planting Native Trees, March 21
- West Central Chapter: Native Plants for Your Space, March 23
- Inaugural CISMA Conference, March 26
- Central Chapter: The Impact and Significance of Invasive Plant Species in Indiana, March 29
- South Central Chapter: Hike Burkhart Creek Park, April 4
- Central Chapter: Spring Hike at Richey Woods, April 18
- Central Chapter: How INDOT Is Promoting Native Plants, April 25
- Northeast Chapter: Spring Hike with ACRES at Dustin Preserve, April 25
- INPS Native Plant Sale & Auction, May 9
- Central Chapter: Wake Up, Woods Hike at Newfields, May 16
Dig Deeper
Lend a Hand
INPS has volunteer activities to suit every interest and energy level, plus you meet the most interesting people!
Certify Your Native Garden
You’ve increased biodiversity and enhanced habitat by adding natives to your garden. Now show off your native garden as an example for others.
Apply for a Grant
Our Biodiversity Grant Program and Letha’s Youth Outdoors Fund support projects and activities that advance the INPS mission.
Get to Know Us
We’re glad you’ve come to visit the Indiana Native Plant Society website.
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.
Our Mission & Vision
We promote the appreciation, preservation, scientific study, and use of plants native to Indiana; and teach people about their beauty, diversity, and importance to our environment.
We envision an Indiana whose citizens treasure and protect their native plants and the web of life that relies on them and who use native plants in public and private landscapes.