UBC Botanical Garden contains plant collections from around the world organized into a temperate Asian garden, an alpine garden with worldwide representation, a coastal British Columbia garden, an eastern North American Carolinian Forest garden, a medicinal (physic) garden, a food garden, and a Garry oak meadow and woodland garden.

Plants of documented wild origin are emphasized in UBC Botanical Garden, with high percentages (>60%) in its temperate Asian woody plants and temperate eastern North American woody plants, and >95% in its Garry oak meadow and woodland collections. Moderate percentages (20%-40%) of documented wild origin accessions are present in its worldwide alpine herbaceous collections and British Columbia coastal plant collections.

Magnoliaceae, Sapindaceae (esp. Aceraceae), Ericaceae (esp. Rhododendron), Lardizabalaceae, Styracaceae, Clematis, Sorbus, Actinidia, Epimedium

Temperate floras of British Columbia, China, Japan, Korea, eastern North America, western North America.