This handy field guide is designed for use by both amateur and professional botanists, biologists, gardeners, and naturalists. The full colour field guide includes over 400 species of water and wetland plants found across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the northern United States.

Since many of the northern wetland plants are circumpolar in distribution, Water and Wetland Plants of the Prairie Provinces will also be useful in other parts of Canada, the United States, and Eurasia.