Native Plants Journal is a triannual peer-reviewed scientific journal established to disperse "practical information about planting and growing North American (Canada, Mexico, and the United States) native plants for conservation, restoration, reforestation, landscaping, highway corridors, and related uses.

"[1] It is published by the University of Wisconsin Press and is an official partner journal of the Society for Ecological Restoration.

The Reforestation, Nurseries and Genetic Resources department of the USDA Forest Service were the originators of the idea of having a journal that covers native plant species.

This led to an agreement in the spring of 1999 between the Service and the Forest Research Nursery at the University of Idaho to publish material that would be incorporated into the first issue of the journal.

It moved to the University of Wisconsin Press in the spring of 2011.