List of Canadian plants by genus

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Below is a list of Canadian plants by genus. Due to the vastness of Canada's biodiversity, this page is divided.

Many of the plants seen in Canada are introduced, either intentionally or accidentally. N indicated native and X indicated exotic. Those plants whose status is unknown are marked with a ?.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I J K | L | M | N | O | P Q | R | S | T | U V W | X Y Z

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.
Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

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[edit] Ab

[edit] Ac

  • Acalypha
    • N Acalypha virginica — Virginia copperleaf, Virginia threeseed mercury
  • Acinos
    • X Acinos arvensis — mother-of-thyme, spring savoury, basil thyme
  • Aconitum
    • X Aconitum napellus — garden monk's-hood, helmet flower, Venus' chariot, aconite
    • X Aconitum variegatum — Manchurian monk's-hood
    • X Aconitum × bicolor (A. napellus × A. variegatum) — hybrid monk's-hood, two-coloured wolf's-bane

[edit] Ad

  • Adiantum
    • N Adiantum pedatum — northern maidenhair fern, five-finger fern

[edit] Ae

[edit] Ag

  • Agalinis
    • N Agalinis gattingeri — Gattinger's agalinis Endangered
    • N Agalinis paupercula — small-flowered purple false-foxglove, small-flowered agalinis
    • N Agalinis purpurea — purple false foxglove, large purple agalinis
    • N Agalinis skinneriana — Skinner's agalinis Endangered
    • N Agalinis tenuifolia — slenderleaf purple false foxglove, slenderleaf agalinis
  • Agastache
    • N Agastache foeniculum — anise hyssop, blue giant hyssop
    • N Agastache nepetoides — yellow giant hyssop
    • N Agastache scrophulariifolia — purple giant hyssop
  • Agoseris
    • N Agoseris glauca — pale false-dandelion, prairie agoseris, pale agoseris, pale goat-chicory, large-flowered false-dandelion
  • Agrimonia
    • X Agrimonia eupatoria — medicinal agrimony, church steeples, European groovebur
    • N Agrimonia gryposepala — tall hairy agrimony, tall hairy groovebur
    • N Agrimonia parviflora — smallflower groovebur, harvestlice agrimony
    • N Agrimonia pubescens — soft groovebur, soft agrimony
    • N Agrimonia striata — woodland agrimony, grooved agrimony
  • Agrostis
    • ? Agrostis canina — brown bentgrass
    • X Agrostis capillaris — colonial bentgrass, browntop, Prince Edward Island bentgrass, Rhode Island bentgrass
    • X Agrostis gigantea — black bentgrass, redtop
    • N Agrostis hyemalis — winter bentgrass, ticklegrass
    • N Agrostis mertensii — northern bentgrass
    • N Agrostis perennans — upland bentgrass, perennial bentgrass
    • N Agrostis scabra — rough bentgrass, tickle grass, rough hairgrass, twin bentgrass
    • N Agrostis stolonifera — creeping bentgrass, spreading bentgrass

[edit] Ai

[edit] Aj

  • Ajuga
    • X Ajuga genevensis — Geneva bugleweed
    • X Ajuga reptans — carpet bugleweed, common bugle, creeping bugleweed

[edit] Al

  • Alchemilla
    • X Alchemilla filicaulis — thin-stemmed lady's-mantle
    • X Alchemilla monticola — hairy lady's-mantle
  • Alisma
    • N Alisma gramineum — grass-leaved water-plantain
    • N Alisma subcordatum — southern water-plantain
    • N Alisma triviale — northern water-plantain
  • Alnus
    • X Alnus glutinosa — black alder, European alder
    • N Alnus incana — grey alder, white alder, hoary alder, speckled alder
    • N Alnus viridis — green alder, mountain alder, American green alder, Siberian alder, Sitka alder
  • Alopecurus
    • N Alopecurus aequalis — shortawn foxtail
    • N Alopecurus alpinus — alpine foxtail
    • X Alopecurus geniculatus — water foxtail
    • X Alopecurus pratensis — meadow foxtail
  • Alyssum
    • X Alyssum alyssoides — pale alyssum, small alyssum, yellow alyssum, pale madwort
    • X Alyssum murale — yellow-tuft

[edit] Am

  • Ambrosia
    • N Ambrosia artemisiifolia — common ragweed, annual ragweed, annual bur-sage
    • N Ambrosia psilostachya — perennial ragweed, western ragweed, naked-spike ambrosia, Cuman ragweed
    • N Ambrosia trifida — giant ragweed, great ragweed, buffalo-weed, skeleton-leaf bur-sage
  • Amelanchier
    • N Amelanchier alnifolia — Saskatoonberry, northwestern serviceberry
    • N Amelanchier arborea — downy serviceberry, downy juneberry, common serviceberry
    • N Amelanchier bartramiana — mountain juneberry, Bartram's shadbush, Bartram's chuckleypear
    • N Amelanchier canadensis — Canada serviceberry, swamp shadbush, thicket serviceberry
    • N Amelanchier humilis — low serviceberry, running serviceberry
    • N Amelanchier laevis — smooth juneberry, Allegheny serviceberry, smooth chuckleypear
    • N Amelanchier sanguinea var. gaspensis — Gaspé roundleaf juneberry
    • N Amelanchier sanguinea var. sanguinea — roundleaf juneberry, roundleaf serviceberry, Fernald's chuckleypear
    • N Amelanchier stolonifera — running serviceberry, running juneberry, running chuckleypear
    • N Amelanchier × intermedia (A. arborea × A. canadensis) — swamp sugarpear
    • N Amelanchier × neglecta (A. bartramiana × A. laevis) — hybrid juneberry
    • N Amelanchier × quinti-martii (A. arborea × A. bartramiana) — Quint-mart's serviceberry
    • N Amelanchier × wiegandii (A. arborea × A. sanguinea) — Wiegand's serviceberry
  • Amerorchis
    • N Amerorchis rotundifolia — small roundleaf orchis, oneleaf orchid
  • Ammannia
    • N Ammannia robusta — scarlet ammannia Endangered
  • Amorpha
    • N Amorpha canescens — leadplant, downy indigobush
    • N Amorpha fruticosa — false indigo
  • Amphicarpaea
    • N Amphicarpaea bracteata — American hog-peanut

[edit] An

  • Androsace
    • ? Androsace occidentalis — western rock-jasmine
    • N Androsace septentrionalis — pygmy-flower rock-jasmine, northern androsace
  • Anemone
    • N Anemone acutiloba — sharp-lobed hepatica, sharp-lobed liverleaf
    • N Anemone americana — round-lobed hepatica, American liverleaf
    • X Anemone blanda
    • N Anemone canadensis — Canada anemone, roundleaf thimbleweed
    • N Anemone cylindrica — long-fruited anemone, thimbleweed, candle anemone, long-headed anemone
    • N Anemone multifida — cutleaf anemone, cliff anemone, early anemone
    • N Anemone parviflora — northern anemone, small-flowered anemone
    • N Anemone patens — pasqueflower, prairie smoke, prairie crocus
    • N Anemone quinquefolia — wood anemone, snow-drops
    • N Anemone richardsonii — Richardson's anemone, yellow anemone
    • N Anemone virginiana — tall thimbleweed, riverbank anemone
  • Angelica
    • N Angelica atropurpurea — purplestem angelica, dark-purple alexanders, wild masterwort, great angelica
    • ? Angelica lucida — seabeach angelica, shiny angelica
    • X Angelica sylvestris
    • ? Angelica venenosa — hairy angelica
  • Anoda
    • X Anoda cristata — crested anoda
  • Antennaria
    • N Antennaria howellii subsp. canadensis — Canada pussytoes
    • N Antennaria howellii subsp. howellii — Howell's pussytoes
    • N Antennaria howellii subsp. neodioica — northern pussytoes, common pussytoes
    • N Antennaria howellii subsp. petaloidea — small pussytoes
    • N Antennaria microphylla — littleleaf pussytoes
    • N Antennaria neglecta — field pussytoes
    • N Antennaria oxyphylla
    • N Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax — largeleaf pussytoes, deceitful pussytoes
    • N Antennaria parlinii subsp. parlinii — Parlin's pussytoes, smooth pussytoes, plainleaf pussytoes
    • N Antennaria parvifolia — small-leaf pussytoes, Rocky Mountain cudweed, Nuttall's pussytoes
    • N Antennaria pulcherrima — showy pussytoes, handsome pussytoes
    • N Antennaria rosea — rosy pussytoes, pink everlasting
    • N Antennaria subviscosa

[edit] Ap

  • Apera
    • X Apera interrupta — dense silky bentgrass, interrupted bentgrass, interrupted windgrass
    • X Apera spica-venti — silky bentgrass
  • Apios
    • N Apios americana — American groundnut, Indian potato, wild bean, potato-bean
  • Apocynum
    • N Apocynum androsaemifolium — spreading dogbane
    • N Apocynum cannabinum — Indian hemp, clasping-leaf dogbane, prairie dogbane, velvet dogbane, amyroot
    • N Apocynum sibiricum — clasping-leaved dogbane
    • N Apocynum × floribundum (A. androsaemifolium × A. cannabinum) — intermediate dogbane, bitter dogbane

[edit] Aq

[edit] Ar

  • Arabis
    • N Arabis alpina subsp. alpina — alpine rockcress
    • X Arabis alpina subsp. caucasica — wall rockcress, grey rockcress
    • N Arabis arenicola var. arenicola — arctic rockcress
    • N Arabis arenicola var. pubescens — sand rockcress
    • N Arabis canadensis — sicklepod
    • N Arabis divaricarpa — limestone rockcress
    • N Arabis drummondii — Drummond rockcress
    • N Arabis glabra — tower-mustard
    • N Arabis hirsuta var. adpressipilis — hairy rockcress, creamflower rockcress
    • N Arabis hirsuta var. pycnocarpa — creamflower rockcress
    • N Arabis holboelli var. retrofracta — Holboell's rockcress
    • N' Arabis holboelli var. secunda — bristly-leaved rockcress
    • ? Arabis kamchatica — lyreleaf rockcress (species status disputed)
    • N Arabis laevigata — smooth rockcress
    • N Arabis lyrata — lyreleaf rockcress
    • N Arabis shortii — Short's rockcress
  • Aralia
    • X Aralia elata — Japanese Angelica-tree, Chinese Angelica-tree
    • N Aralia hispida — bristly spikenard, bristly sarsaparilla, dwarf elder
    • N Aralia nudicaulis — wild sarsaparilla, small spikenard
    • N Aralia racemosa — American spikenard, Indian-root, life-of-man, petty morel
    • X Aralia spinosa — Hercules' club, Devil's walkingstick, prickly ash, Angelica tree, toothache tree
  • Arceuthobium
    • N Arceuthobium americanum — pine mistletoe, American mistletoe, lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe
    • N Arceuthobium pusillum — dwarf mistletoe, eastern dwarf mistletoe
  • Arctagrostis
    • N Arctagrostis latifolia — polargrass
  • Arctium
    • X Arctium lappa — great burdock
    • X Arctium minus subsp. minus — common burdock
    • X Arctium minus subsp. nemorosum — lesser burdock
    • X Arctium pubens — wood burdock
    • X Arctium tomentosum — woolly burdock, tomentose burdock
    • X Arctium × nothum (A. lappa × A. minus) — hybrid burdock
  • Arctophila
    • N Arctophila fulva — pendant grass
  • Aristida
    • N Aristida basiramea — forktip threeawn Endangered
    • N Aristida dichotoma — Shinner's threeawn
    • N Aristida longespica var. geniculata — red threeawn
    • N Aristida longespica var. longespica — slimspike threeawn
    • X Aristida oligantha — prairie three-awn grass
    • N Aristida purpurascens — arrow feather threeawn
  • Arnica
    • N Arnica angustifolia — narrowleaf arnica, arctic arnica, arctic leopardbane
    • N Arnica chamissonis — meadow arnica, Chamisso's arnica, leafy arnica, leafy leopardbane
    • N Arnica cordifolia — heartleaf arnica, heartleaf leopardbane
    • N Arnica lonchophylla — northern arnica, longleaf arnica, white-plumed arnica, spearleaf arnica
  • Arnoglossum
    • N Arnoglossum platagineum — tuberous Indian-plantain Special Concern
  • Artemisia
    • X Artemisia abrotanum — southern wormwood, southernwood, lad's love, oldman
    • X Artemisia absinthium — common wormwood, absinthe, absinthe wormwood, European wormwood
    • X Artemisia annua — sweet sagewort, annual wormwood, sweet Annie, sweet wormwood, annual mugwort
    • X Artemisia biennis — biennial wormwood
    • N Artemisia campestris subsp. borealis — boreal wormwood, Canada wormwood
    • N Artemisia campestris subsp. caudata — tall wormwood, beach wormwood, wild wormwood, threadleaf sagewort, sagewort wormwood
    • N Artemisia dracunculus — wild tarragon, dragon wormwood, dragon sagewort, false tarragon, French tarragon, Russian tarragon
    • N Artemisia frigida — fringed sagebrush, prairie sagebrush, fringed sagewort, prairie sagewort, wormwood sage, pasture sage, arctic sagebrush
    • N Artemisia ludoviciana — white sage, silver wormwood, prairie sage, western mugwort, darkleaf mugwort, cudweed sagewort, pasture sage, Louisiana wormwood, Louisiana sage, silver king artemisia, white wormwood, white sagebrush
    • X Artemisia pontica — Roman wormwood, petite wormwood, green ginger
    • X Artemisia stelleriana — hoary sagebrush, dusty miller, beach wormwood, old woman
    • N Artemisia tilesii — Tilesius' wormood, mountain sagewort, oldwoman
    • X Artemisia vulgaris — common mugwort, common wormwood

[edit] As

  • Asclepias
    • N Asclepias exaltata — poke milkweed, tall milkweed, four-leaved milkweed
    • N Asclepias hirtella — tall green milkweed
    • N Asclepias incarnata — swamp milkweed
    • N Asclepias ovalifolia — oval-leaf milkweed, dwarf milkweed
    • N Asclepias purpurascens — purple milkweed
    • N Asclepias quadrifolia — four-leaved milkweed
    • N Asclepias sullivantii — Sullivant's milkweed
    • N Asclepias syriaca — common milkweed, silkweed, silky swallow-wort
    • N Asclepias tuberosa — butterfly weed, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, chigger flower
    • ? Asclepias variegata — white milkweed
    • N Asclepias verticillata — whorled milkweed
    • N Asclepias viridiflora — green milkweed, green comet milkweed, short green milkweed
  • Asperula
    • X Asperula arvensis — blue woodruff
  • Astragalus
    • N Astragalus adsurgens — ascending milkvetch, rattle milkvetch, standing milkvetch
    • N Astragalus agrestis — field milkvetch, mile-vetch, cock's-head
    • N Astragalus alpinus — alpine milkvetch
    • N Astragalus americanus — American milkvetch
    • N Astragalus australis — Indian milkvetch
    • N Astragalus canadensis — Canada milkvetch, Carolina milkvetch
    • X Astragalus cicer — chickpea milkvetch
    • N Astragalus eucosmus — elegant milkvetch, pretty milkvetch
    • X Astragalus glycophyllos — wild liquorice
    • N Astragalus neglectus — Cooper's milkvetch
    • N Astragalus tenellus — pulse milkvetch, loose-flower milkvetch

[edit] At

  • Atriplex
    • N Atriplex dioica — thickleaf orache, saline saltbush
    • N Atriplex glabriuscula — smooth orache, Scotland orache, glabrous orache, northeastern saltbush
    • X Atriplex heterosperma — two-scale orache
    • X Atriplex hortensis — garden orache
    • X Atriplex oblongifolia — oblong-leaf orache
    • N Atriplex patula — spear orache, spreading orache, spearscale, halberdleaf orache, common orache
    • N Atriplex prostrata — thinleaf orache, triangle orache, fat-hen
    • X Atriplex rosea — tumbling orache

[edit] Au

  • Aureolaria
    • N Aureolaria flava — yellow false-foxglove
    • N Aureolaria pedicularia — fernleaf yellow false-foxglove
    • N Aureolaria virginica — downy false-foxglove

[edit] Av

[edit] Ax

  • Axyris
    • X Axyris amaranthoides — Russian pigweed, upright axyris

[edit] Az

[edit] References

See: Flora of Canada#References

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