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nounone of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and mineralspart of:
Definition that contains alberta
- calgary the largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas center and a technology center for Alberta and most of western Canada
- edmonton the capital of the province of Alberta
- great plains of north america a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
- tahoka daisy wild aster with fernlike leaves and flower heads with very narrow bright purple rays; Alberta to Texas and Mexico
- lithophragma parviflorum plant with mostly basal leaves and slender open racemes of white or pale pink flowers; prairies and open forest of northwestern United States to British Columbia and Alberta
- tansy leaf aster wild aster with fernlike leaves and flower heads with very narrow bright purple rays; Alberta to Texas and Mexico
- chronoperates paradoxus shrew-sized protomammal from the Alberta region of Canada; from about 55 million years ago (much more recent than other mammal-like reptiles)
- machaeranthera tanacetifolia wild aster with fernlike leaves and flower heads with very narrow bright purple rays; Alberta to Texas and Mexico
- great plains a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
- prairie star plant with mostly basal leaves and slender open racemes of white or pale pink flowers; prairies and open forest of northwestern United States to British Columbia and Alberta