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List of Canadian plants by family This is the list of the plants in Canada, ordered by Family (biology), family. This list does not include List of introduced species to North America, introduced species, which form a separate list. {{Dynamic list Families: List of Canadian plan ...

Families: 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

Cabombaceae The Cabombaceae are a family of aquatic, herbaceous flowering plants. A common name for its species is water shield. The family is recognised as distinct in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV system (2016). The family consists of two genera of ...

* '' Brasenia schreberi'' — watershield

Cactaceae A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ...

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Escobaria vivipara ''Escobaria vivipara'' is a species of cactus known by several common names, including spinystar, viviparous foxtail cactus, pincushion cactus and ball cactus. It is native to North America, where certain varieties can be found from Mexico to Can ...

'' — foxtail pincushion cactus * '' Opuntia fragilis'' — brittle prickly-pear * ''

Opuntia humifusa ''Opuntia humifusa'', commonly known as the devil's-tongue, Eastern prickly pear or Indian fig, is a cactus of the genus ''Opuntia'' present in parts of the eastern United States. Description As is the case in other ''Opuntia'' species, the gr ...

'' — eastern prickly-pear * ''

Opuntia polyacantha ''Opuntia polyacantha'' is a common species of cactus known by the common names plains pricklypear,Johnson, K. A. 2000''Opuntia polyacantha''.In: Fire Effects Information System, nline U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mo ...

'' — panhandle prickly-pear

Callitrichaceae

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Callitriche hermaphroditica ''Callitriche hermaphroditica'' (vernacular name: autumnal water-starwort) is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Plantaginaceae. Its native range is Subarctic The subarctic zone is a region in the Northern Hemisphere imm ...

'' — autumnal water-starwort * ''

Callitriche heterophylla ''Callitriche heterophylla'', commonly called twoheaded water-starwort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is native to North America, where it found in the north from Greenland to Alaska, south to Mexico. It is wide ...

'' — large water-starwort * '' Callitriche marginata'' — winged water-starwort * ''

Callitriche palustris ''Callitriche palustris'', the vernal water-starwort, narrow-fruited water-starwort, or spiny water starwort, is a species of aquatic plants. It is the type species of its genus. References External links * * ''Callitriche palustris''at ...

'' — vernal water-starwort * '' Callitriche terrestris'' — terrestrial water-starwort

Calypogeiaceae

* '' Calypogeia fissa'' * '' Calypogeia integristipula'' * '' Calypogeia muelleriana'' * '' Calypogeia neesiana'' * '' Calypogeia sphagnicola'' * '' Calypogeia suecica'' * '' Calypogeia trichomanis'' * '' Metacalypogeia schusterana''

Campanulaceae The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants belon ...

* '' Asyneuma prenanthoides'' — California harebell * '' Campanula aparinoides'' — marsh bellflower * '' Campanula aurita'' — Yukon bellflower * '' Campanula lasiocarpa'' — common Alaska harebell * '' Campanula parryi'' — Parry's northern harebell * ''

Campanula rotundifolia ''Campanula rotundifolia'', the harebell, Scottish bluebell, or bluebell of Scotland, is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae. This herbaceous perennial is found throughout the temperate regions of the northern hemi ...

'' — American harebell * '' Campanula scouleri'' — Scouler's bellflower * '' Campanula uniflora'' — Arctic harebell * '' Campanulastrum americanum'' — tall bellflower * '' Downingia elegans'' — common downingia * '' Downingia laeta'' — Great Basin downingia * '' Githopsis specularioides'' — common blue-cup * '' Heterocodon rariflorum'' — western pearl-flower * ''

Lobelia cardinalis ''Lobelia cardinalis'', the cardinal flower ( syn. ''L. fulgens''), is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae native to the Americas, from southeastern Canada south through the eastern and southwestern United States ...

'' — cardinal-flower * ''

Lobelia dortmanna ''Lobelia dortmanna'', Dortmann's cardinalflower or water lobelia, is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae. This stoloniferous herbaceous perennial aquatic plant with basal leaf-rosettes and flower stalks grows ...

'' — water lobelia * ''

Lobelia inflata ''Lobelia inflata'', also known as Indian tobacco or puke weed, is a species of ''Lobelia'' native to eastern North America, from southeastern Canada (Nova Scotia to southeast Ontario) south through the eastern United States to Alabama and west ...

'' — Indian-tobacco * ''

Lobelia kalmii ''Lobelia kalmii'' is a species of flowering plant with a distribution primarily across Canada and the northern United States in temperate and boreal regions. It was formerly known as ''Lobelia strictiflora'' (Rydb.) It is commonly known as Kalm ...

'' — Kalm's lobelia * ''

Lobelia siphilitica ''Lobelia siphilitica'', the great blue lobelia, great lobelia, or blue cardinal flower, is a plant species within the family Campanulaceae. It is an herbaceous perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. There are t ...

'' — great blue lobelia * '' Lobelia spicata'' — palespike lobelia * '' Lobelia x speciosa'' * ''

Triodanis perfoliata ''Triodanis perfoliata'', the clasping Venus' looking-glass or clasping bellflower, is an annual flowering plant belonging to the family Campanulaceae (bellflower family). It is an annual herb native to North and South America, the natural range ...

'' — claspingleaf Venus'-looking-glass

Cannabaceae Cannabaceae is a small family of flowering plants, known as the hemp family. As now circumscribed, the family includes about 170 species grouped in about 11 genera, including ''Cannabis'' (hemp), '' Humulus'' (hops) and '' Celtis'' (hackberries ...

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Celtis occidentalis ''Celtis occidentalis'', commonly known as the common hackberry, is a large deciduous tree native to North America. It is also known as the nettletree, sugarberry, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry. It is a moderately long-l ...

'' — common hackberry * ''

Celtis tenuifolia ''Celtis tenuifolia'', the dwarf hackberry or Georgia hackberry is a shrub or small tree . It is native to eastern North America but is very uncommon north of the Ohio River. In Canada, dwarf hackberry is designated as threatened and protected ...

'' — dwarf hackberry * ''

Humulus lupulus ''Humulus lupulus'', the common hop or hops, is a species of flowering plant in the hemp family Cannabinaceae, native to Europe, western Asia and North America. It is a perennial, herbaceous climbing plant which sends up new shoots in early spr ...

'' — common hop

Capparaceae The Capparaceae (or Capparidaceae), commonly known as the caper family, are a family of plants in the order Brassicales. As currently circumscribed, the family contains 33 genera and about 700 species. The largest genera are '' Capparis'' (about ...

* '' Cleome serrulata'' — bee spiderflower * ''

Polanisia dodecandra ''Polanisia dodecandra'' is a species of flowering plant in the Cleomaceae family, known by the common name redwhisker clammyweed or clammyweed, and there are three subspecies of ''Polanisia''. Usually annual, occasionally perennial, Polanisia is ...

'' — common clammyweed

Caprifoliaceae The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade of dicotyledonous flowering plants consisting of about 860 species, in 33, to 42 genera, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and ea ...

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Diervilla lonicera ''Diervilla lonicera'', commonly referred to as northern bush honeysuckle, low bush honeysuckle, dwarf bush honeysuckle, or yellow-flowered upright honeysuckle, is a deciduous shrub native to the northeastern United States and Canada. Its specifi ...

'' — northern bush-honeysuckle * ''

Linnaea borealis ''Linnaea borealis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae (the honeysuckle family). Until 2013, it was the only species in the genus ''Linnaea''. It is a boreal to subarctic woodland subshrub, commonly known as twinflower ...

'' — twinflower * ''

Lonicera caerulea ''Lonicera caerulea'', also known by its common names blue honeysuckle, sweetberry honeysuckle, fly honeysuckle (blue fly honeysuckle), blue-berried honeysuckle, or the honeyberry, is a non-climbing honeysuckle native throughout the cool tempera ...

'' — western honeysuckle * '' Lonicera canadensis'' — American fly-honeysuckle * ''

Lonicera ciliosa ''Lonicera ciliosa'', the orange honeysuckle or western trumpet honeysuckle is a honeysuckle native to forests of western North America. A deciduous shrub growing to tall with hollow twigs, the leaves are opposite, oval, long with the last pair ...

'' — orange honeysuckle * ''

Lonicera dioica ''Lonicera dioica'' (limber honeysuckle, glaucous honeysuckle) is a vine in the honeysuckle family native to Canada and the eastern and central United States. ''Lonicera dioica'' comprises four variations: var. ''Dasygyna'', var. ''Dioica'', va ...

'' — mountain honeysuckle * '' Lonicera hirsuta'' — hairy honeysuckle * '' Lonicera hispidula'' — California honeysuckle * ''

Lonicera involucrata ''Lonicera involucrata'', the bearberry honeysuckle, bracted honeysuckle, twinberry honeysuckle, Californian Honeysuckle, twin-berry, or black twinberry, is a species of honeysuckle native to northern and western North America. Distribution an ...

'' — four-line honeysuckle * '' Lonicera oblongifolia'' — swamp fly-honeysuckle * '' Lonicera reticulata'' — grape honeysuckle * '' Lonicera utahensis'' — Utah honeysuckle * ''

Lonicera villosa ''Lonicera villosa'', also known as mountain fly honeysuckle, is a species of honeysuckle Honeysuckles are arching shrubs or twining vines in the genus ''Lonicera'' () of the family Caprifoliaceae, native to northern latitudes in North Ame ...

'' — mountain fly-honeysuckle * ''

Sambucus nigra ''Sambucus nigra'' is a species complex of flowering plants in the family Adoxaceae native to most of Europe. Common names include elder, elderberry, black elder, European elder, European elderberry, European black elderberry and tramman (Isle ...

'' — common elderberry * ''

Sambucus racemosa ''Sambucus racemosa'' is a species of elderberry known by the common names red elderberry and red-berried elder. Distribution and habitat It is native to Europe, northern temperate Asia, and North America across Canada and the United States. It ...

'' — red elderberry * ''

Symphoricarpos albus ''Symphoricarpos albus'' is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name common snowberry. Native to North America, it is browsed by some animals and planted for ornamental and ecological purposes, but is poi ...

'' — snowberry * ''

Symphoricarpos hesperius ''Symphoricarpos'', commonly known as the snowberry, waxberry, or ghostberry, is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae. With the exception of the Chinese coralberry, '' S. sinensis'', whi ...

'' — spreading snowberry * ''

Symphoricarpos occidentalis ''Symphoricarpos occidentalis'', commonly called western snowberry or wolfberry, is a woody species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family. Wolfberry is not to be confused with '' Lycium chinense'' and '' L. barbarum'' (goji), which are al ...

'' — northern snowberry * ''

Symphoricarpos oreophilus ''Symphoricarpos oreophilus'' is a North American species of flowering plant in the Caprifoliaceae, or honeysuckle family, known by the common name mountain snowberry. It has a wide distribution in western Canada, the United States, and northwes ...

'' — mountain snowberry * ''

Triosteum angustifolium ''Triosteum angustifolium'', commonly known as yellowfruit horse-gentian, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Caprifoliaceae. It is found Eastern North America, primarily in Limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is ...

'' — yellowleaf tinker's-weed * '' Triosteum aurantiacum'' — coffee tinker's-weed * '' Triosteum perfoliatum'' — perfoliate tinker's-weed

Caryophyllaceae Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactacea ...

* '' Arenaria capillaris'' — fescue sandwort * '' Arenaria congesta'' — capitate sandwort * '' Arenaria humifusa'' — creeping sandwort * '' Arenaria longipedunculata'' — low sandwort * '' Cerastium alpinum'' — alpine chickweed * ''

Cerastium arvense ''Cerastium arvense'' is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names field mouse-ear and field chickweed. It is a widespread species, occurring throughout Europe and North America, as well as parts of South America. ...

'' — mouse-ear chickweed * '' Cerastium beeringianum'' — Bering Sea chickweed * ''

Cerastium brachypodum ''Cerastium'' is a genus of annual, winter annual, or perennial plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. They are commonly called mouse-ear chickweed. Species are found nearly worldwide but the greatest concentration is in the northern tem ...

'' — mouse-ear chickweed * '' Cerastium cerastioides'' — starwort chickweed * ''

Cerastium fischerianum ''Cerastium'' is a genus of annual, winter annual, or perennial plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. They are commonly called mouse-ear chickweed. Species are found nearly worldwide but the greatest concentration is in the northern tem ...

'' — Fischer's chickweed * '' Cerastium maximum'' — great chickweed * '' Cerastium nigrescens'' — black mouse-ear chickweed * ''

Cerastium nutans ''Cerastium'' is a genus of annual, winter annual, or perennial plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. They are commonly called mouse-ear chickweed. Species are found nearly worldwide but the greatest concentration is in the northern tem ...

'' — nodding chickweed * '' Cerastium regelii'' — Regel's chickweed * '' Dianthus repens'' — carnation * ''

Honckenya peploides ''Honckenya peploides'', the sea sandwort (UK) or seaside sandplant (Canada), is the only species in the genus ''Honckenya'' of the plant family Caryophyllaceae. Other common names include sea chickweed, sea pimpernal, sea-beach sandwort, and sea ...

'' — seabeach sandwort * '' Lychnis alpina'' — alpine campion * ''

Minuartia arctica ''Minuartia'' is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as sandworts in the family Caryophyllaceae. Minuartias are small annual or perennial plants which grow in otherwise inhospitable conditions such as on rocky ledges and in stony soil. Th ...

'' — Arctic stitchwort * ''

Minuartia austromontana ''Minuartia'' is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as sandworts in the family Caryophyllaceae. Minuartias are small annual or perennial plants which grow in otherwise inhospitable conditions such as on rocky ledges and in stony soil. Th ...

'' — Columbian stitchwort * ''

Minuartia biflora ''Cherleria biflora'' is a species of plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is known as mountain stitchwort. Description The species is perennial, and forms mats and cushions. It flowers from June to August. Range ''Cherleria biflora'' is fou ...

'' — mountain stitchwort * '' Minuartia dawsonensis'' — rock stitchwort * '' Minuartia elegans'' — Ross' stitchwort * ''

Minuartia groenlandica ''Minuartia groenlandica'', the Greenland stitchwort or mountain stitchwort, Appalachian stitchwort, mountain sandwort, smooth mountain sandwort, and smooth sandwort is a rare perennialMinuartia litorea'' * '' Minuartia macrocarpa'' — longpod stitchwort * '' Minuartia marcescens'' — serpentine stitchwort * ''

Minuartia michauxii ''Minuartia'' is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as sandworts in the family Caryophyllaceae. Minuartias are small annual or perennial plants which grow in otherwise inhospitable conditions such as on rocky ledges and in stony soil. Th ...

'' — Michaux's stitchwort * '' Minuartia nuttallii'' — Nuttall's stitchwort * '' Minuartia obtusiloba'' — alpine stitchwort * '' Minuartia pusilla'' — dwarf stitchwort * '' Minuartia rossii'' — Ross' stitchwort * ''

Minuartia rubella ''Minuartia rubella'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by several common names, including beautiful sandwort, mountain sandwort, Arctic sandwort, and boreal stitchwort. It has a circumboreal distribution, occur ...

'' — boreal stitchwort * '' Minuartia stricta'' — rock sandwort * '' Minuartia tenella'' — slender stitchwort * '' Minuartia yukonensis'' — Yukon stitchwort * '' Moehringia lateriflora'' — grove sandwort * '' Moehringia macrophylla'' — largeleaf sandwort * '' Paronychia canadensis'' — forked nailwort * '' Paronychia fastigiata'' — cluster-stemmed nailwort * '' Paronychia sessiliflora'' — low nailwort * ''

Sagina caespitosa ''Sagina'' (like ''Colobanthus'' called "pearlworts") is a genus of 20–30 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. These are flowering herbs native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere extending south to tropical ...

'' — tufted pearlwort * ''

Sagina decumbens ''Sagina decumbens'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names trailing pearlwort and western pearlwort. It is native to several areas of North America, where it can be found in many types of habita ...

'' — small-flowered pearlwort * '' Sagina maxima'' — sticky-stem pearlwort * '' Sagina nivalis'' — snow pearlwort * ''

Sagina nodosa ''Sagina nodosa'', the knotted pearlwort, is a species in the genus ''Sagina'', native to northern Europe. It is a low-growing plant up to 15 cm tall, with paired leaves up to 1 cm long. The flower A flower, sometimes known as a ...

'' — knotted pearlwort * '' Sagina saginoides'' — Arctic pearlwort * ''

Silene acaulis ''Silene acaulis'', known as moss campion or cushion pink, is a small mountain-dwelling wildflower that is common all over the high arctic and tundra and in high mountains of Eurasia and North America (Alps, Carpathians, southern Siberia, Pyrenee ...

'' — moss campion * '' Silene antirrhina'' — sleepy catchfly * ''

Silene douglasii ''Silene douglasii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name Douglas's catchfly. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Wyoming, where it grows in several habit ...

'' — Douglas' campion * '' Silene drummondii'' — Drummond's campion * '' Silene involucrata'' — Arctic catchfly * '' Silene menziesii'' — Menzies' pink * '' Silene parryi'' — Parry's campion * '' Silene repens'' — creeping catchfly * '' Silene scouleri'' — Scouler's catchfly * '' Silene sorensenis'' — Sorensen's catchfly * '' Silene spaldingii'' — Spalding's campion * '' Silene taimyrensis'' — Taimyr catchfly * '' Silene tayloriae'' — Peel River catchfly * '' Silene uralensis'' — apetalous catchfly * '' Silene x hampeana'' * ''

Spergularia canadensis ''Spergularia canadensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, known by the common name Canadian sandspurry. It is native to North America, where it is known from mainly coastal habitat. It is found along the coastline ...

'' — Canada sandspurry * ''

Spergularia macrotheca ''Spergularia macrotheca'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name sticky sandspurry. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Baja California, where it grows in many types of m ...

'' — beach sandspurry * ''

Spergularia salina ''Spergularia marina'', also called ''Spergularia salina'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae (the pink family). It is known as salt sandspurry or lesser sea-spurrey. ''S. marina'' is a sprawling annual or sometim ...

'' — saltmarsh sandspurry * '' Stellaria alaskana'' — Alaska starwort * '' Stellaria alsine'' — trailing stitchwort * '' Stellaria americana'' — American stitchwort * '' Stellaria borealis'' — northern stitchwort * '' Stellaria calycantha'' — northern stitchwort * '' Stellaria ciliatosepala'' — tundra stitchwort * ''

Stellaria crassifolia ''Stellaria crassifolia'', the fleshy starwort, is a species of flowering plant in the carnation family Caryophyllaceae Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in ...

'' — fleshy stitchwort * '' Stellaria crassipes'' — tundra starwort * '' Stellaria crispa'' — crimped stitchwort * '' Stellaria dicranoides'' — matted starwort * ''

Stellaria humifusa ''Stellaria humifusa'', the saltmarsh starwort, is plant native to northern North America and Eurasia. References holostea Flora of Eastern Canada Flora of Eastern Europe Flora of Northern Europe Flora of Siberia Flora of Subarctic ...

'' — creeping sandwort * '' Stellaria longifolia'' — longleaf stitchwort * ''

Stellaria longipes ''Stellaria longipes'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names longstalk starwort and Goldie's starwort. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring throughout the northernmost latitudes of the Nor ...

'' — long-stalked stitchwort * '' Stellaria nitens'' — shiny stitchwort * '' Stellaria obtusa'' — Rocky Mountain stitchwort * '' Stellaria umbellata'' — umbellate stitchwort * '' Wilhelmsia physodes'' — merkia

Catoscopiaceae

* '' Catoscopium nigritum''

Celastraceae The Celastraceae (staff-vine or bittersweet) are a family of 97 genera and 1,350 species of herbs, vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales. The great majority of the genera are tropical, with only ''Celastrus'' (the sta ...

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Celastrus scandens ''Celastrus scandens'', commonly called American bittersweet or bittersweet, is a species of ''Celastrus'' that blooms mostly in June and is commonly found on rich, well-drained soils of woodlands. It is a sturdy perennial vine that may have tw ...

'' — climbing bittersweet * ''

Euonymus atropurpureus ''Euonymus atropurpureus'' is a species of shrub in the bittersweet family. It has the common names American wahoo, eastern wahoo, burningbush and hearts bursting with love. It is native to eastern North America. Distribution and habitat This ...

'' — wahoo * '' Euonymus obovatus'' — running strawberry-bush * '' Euonymus occidentalis'' — western strawberry-bush * '' Paxistima myrsinites'' — Oregon boxleaf

Cephaloziaceae

* '' Cephalozia affinis'' * '' Cephalozia bicuspidata'' * '' Cephalozia catenulata'' * '' Cephalozia connivens'' * '' Cephalozia lacinulata'' * '' Cephalozia leucantha'' * '' Cephalozia loitlesbergeri'' * '' Cephalozia lunulifolia'' * '' Cephalozia macounii'' * '' Cephalozia macrostachya'' * '' Cephalozia pleniceps'' * '' Cladopodiella fluitans'' — cladopodiella moss * '' Cladopodiella francisci'' * '' Hygrobiella laxifolia'' * '' Nowellia curvifolia'' * '' Pleuroclada albescens'' * '' Schofieldia monticola''

Cephaloziellaceae

* '' Cephaloziella arctica'' * '' Cephaloziella brinkmani'' * '' Cephaloziella divaricata'' * '' Cephaloziella elachista'' * '' Cephaloziella hampeana'' * '' Cephaloziella massalongi'' * '' Cephaloziella phyllacantha'' * '' Cephaloziella rubella'' * '' Cephaloziella spinigera'' * '' Cephaloziella subdentata'' * '' Cephaloziella turneri'' * '' Cephaloziella uncinata''

Ceratophyllaceae Ceratophyllaceae is a cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family (biology), family of flowering plants including one living genus commonly found in ponds, marshes, and quiet streams in tropical and in temperate regions. It is the only extant ...

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Ceratophyllum demersum ''Ceratophyllum demersum'', commonly known as hornwort, rigid hornwort, coontail, or coon's tail, is a species of ''Ceratophyllum''. It is a submerged, free-floating aquatic plant, with a cosmopolitan distribution, native to all continents except ...

'' — common hornwort * ''

Ceratophyllum echinatum ''Ceratophyllum echinatum'', known as prickly hornwort, spiny hornwort, or spiny coontail, is an aquatic, perennial plant found in North America. Its name comes from fruits, which have a warty surface and long spines. Spiny hornwort can be found ...

'' — prickly hornwort

Chenopodiaceae Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus ''Amaranthus''. It includes the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and contains about 165 genera and 2,040 species, making it ...

* '' Atriplex acadiensis'' — maritime saltbush * '' Atriplex alaskensis'' — Alaska orache * ''

Atriplex argentea ''Atriplex argentea'' is a species of saltbush known by the common names silverscale saltbush and silver orache. It is native to western North America from southern Canada to northern Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitat, generally on ...

'' — silvery saltbush * '' Atriplex canescens'' — four-wing saltbush * '' Atriplex dioica'' — orache * '' Atriplex falcata'' — sickle saltbush * '' Atriplex franktonii'' — Frankton's saltbush * '' Atriplex gardneri'' — Gardner's saltbush * '' Atriplex glabriuscula'' — northeastern saltbush * '' Atriplex gmelinii'' — Gmelin's saltbush * ''

Atriplex littoralis ''Atriplex littoralis'', the grassleaf orache or grass-leaved orache (; also spelled orach) is a species of shrub in the family Amaranthaceae Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference t ...

'' — tropical saltbush * '' Atriplex nudicaulis'' — Baltic saltbush * ''

Atriplex nuttallii ''Atriplex nuttallii'', also known as Nuttall's saltbush, is native to central and western North America. It has been treated by some botanists as a synonym of ''Atriplex canescens''.Atriplex patula ''Atriplex patula'' (spear saltbush; common orache; spear orach; spreading orach; ) is a ruderal, circumboreal species of annual herbaceous plant in the genus '' Atriplex'' naturalized in many temperate regions. Description ''Atriplex patula'' ...

'' — halberd-leaf orache * ''

Atriplex powellii ''Atriplex powellii'', or Powell's saltweed, is a plant found in the United States and Canada. Uses Among the Zuni people, the seeds were eaten raw before the presence of corn and afterwards. They are also ground with corn meal and made into a ...

'' — Powell's saltbush * ''

Atriplex prostrata ''Atriplex prostrata'', called the spear-leaved orache, hastate orache, thin-leaf orache, triangle orache, and fat hen, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the saltbush genus ''Atriplex ''Atriplex'' () is a plant genus of about 250 ...

'' — creeping saltbush * '' Atriplex truncata'' — wedge-leaved saltbush * '' Atriplex x aptera'' * ''

Chenopodium album ''Chenopodium album'' is a fast-growing weedy annual plant in the genus ''Chenopodium''. Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed. Common names include lamb's quarters, melde, goosefoot, wild spinach and fat-h ...

'' — Missouri goosefoot * '' Chenopodium atrovirens'' — dark goosefoot * ''

Chenopodium berlandieri ''Chenopodium berlandieri'', also known by the common names pitseed goosefoot, lamb's quarters (or lambsquarters), and ''huauzontle'' ( Nahuatl) is an annual herbaceous plant in the family Amaranthaceae. The species is widespread in North Amer ...

'' — pitseed goosefoot * '' Chenopodium capitatum'' — strawberry goosefoot * ''

Chenopodium desiccatum ''Chenopodium desiccatum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common names aridland goosefoot and slimleaf goosefoot. It is native to parts of western North America, including sections of the Western United ...

'' — narrowleaf goosefoot * ''

Chenopodium foggii ''Chenopodium'' is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world. It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classific ...

'' — Fogg's goosefoot * '' Chenopodium fremontii'' — Fremont's goosefoot * ''

Chenopodium hians ''Chenopodium hians'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common names hians goosefoot and gaping goosefoot. The Latin species name ''hians'' means "gaping". Distribution It is native to much of the western ...

'' — Hian's goosefoot * '' Chenopodium humile'' — marshland goosefoot * ''

Chenopodium incanum ''Chenopodium'' is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world. It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classifica ...

'' — mealy goosefoot * ''

Chenopodium leptophyllum ''Chenopodium leptophyllum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common name narrowleaf goosefoot. It is native to much of western North America, where it is reported from Alaska to Texas and northern Mexico, ...

'' — narrowleaf goosefoot * ''

Chenopodium pratericola ''Chenopodium pratericola'' is a species of flowering plant in the Chenopodium, goosefoot family known by the common name desert goosefoot. It is native to much of western and central North America, where it grows in many types of open habitat, s ...

'' — desert goosefoot * '' Chenopodium rubrum'' — coastblite goosefoot * '' Chenopodium salinum'' — Rocky Mountain goosefoot * '' Chenopodium simplex'' — giantseed goosefoot * ''

Chenopodium standleyanum ''Chenopodium'' is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world. It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classific ...

'' — Standley's goosefoot * ''

Chenopodium subglabrum ''Chenopodium'' is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world. It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classifi ...

'' — smooth goosefoot * ''

Chenopodium watsonii ''Chenopodium'' is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world. It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classific ...

'' — Watson's goosefoot * ''

Corispermum americanum ''Corispermum'' is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Common names given to members of the genus involve bugseed, tickseed, and tumbleweed. In general, these are erect annual plants with flat, thin leaves and topped with inflorescenc ...

'' — American bugseed * '' Corispermum hookeri'' — Hooker's bugseed * '' Corispermum ochotense'' — Okhotian bugseed * '' Corispermum pallasii'' — Pallas' bugseed * '' Corispermum villosum'' — hairy bugseed * '' Cycloloma atriplicifolium'' — winged pigweed * '' Endolepis dioica'' — Suckley's saltbush * ''

Krascheninnikovia lanata ''Krascheninnikovia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Chenopodioideae of the family Amaranthaceae known as winterfat, so-called because it is a nutritious livestock forage. They are known from Eurasia and western North America. Th ...

'' — winter-fat * '' Monolepis nuttalliana'' — Nuttall's poverty-weed * '' Salicornia borealis'' — boreal saltwort * '' Salicornia maritima'' — jointed glasswort * '' Salicornia rubra'' — western glasswort * ''

Salicornia virginica ''Salicornia virginica'' (American glasswort, pickleweed) is a halophytic A halophyte is a salt-tolerant plant that grows in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray, such as ...

'' — Virginia glasswort * ''

Sarcobatus vermiculatus ''Sarcobatus'' is a North American genus of two species of flowering plants, formerly considered to be a single species. Common names for ''S. vermiculatus'' include greasewood, seepwood, and saltbush. Traditionally, ''Sarcobatus'' has been ...

'' — black greasewood * '' Sarcocornia pacifica'' — Pacific glasswort * ''

Suaeda calceoliformis ''Suaeda calceoliformis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by several common names, including Pursh seepweed and horned seablite. Distribution The plant is native to North America, where it can be found across mo ...

'' — American sea-blite * '' Suaeda maritima'' — herbaceous seepweed * '' Suaeda moquinii'' — shrubby seepweed * '' Suaeda rolandii'' — Rolands' sea-blite * '' Suckleya suckleyana'' — poison suckleya

Cistaceae The Cistaceae are a small family of plants (rock-rose or rock rose family) known for their beautiful shrubs, which are profusely covered by flowers at the time of blossom. This family consists of about 170(-200) species in nine genera that are ...

* '' Helianthemum bicknellii'' — plains frostweed * ''

Helianthemum canadense ''Helianthemum canadense'' or ''Crocanthemum canadense'' (known as longbranch frostweed, Canada frostweed, frostweed, rock frost, frostplant, or frostwort) is a species of rock-rose (Cistaceae), native to eastern North America North ...

'' — Canada frostweed * ''

Hudsonia ericoides ''Hudsonia ericoides'' is a species of flowering plant in the rock-rose family known by the common names pine barren goldenheather, false heather, and golden-heather. It is native to eastern North America, where its distribution extends down the ...

'' — golden-heather * ''

Hudsonia tomentosa ''Hudsonia tomentosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the rockrose family known by the common names woolly beachheather, beach heather, and sand heather. It is native to northeastern North America, including central and eastern Canada and t ...

'' — sand-heather * '' Lechea intermedia'' — narrowleaf pinweed * ''

Lechea maritima ''Lechea'' (pinweed) is a genus in the family Cistaceae of the order Malvales.USDA, NRCS. 2014. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 1 December 2014). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-4901 USA. The genus ''Lechea'' is based ...

'' — beach pinweed * ''

Lechea mucronata ''Lechea'' (pinweed) is a genus in the family Cistaceae of the order Malvales.USDA, NRCS. 2014. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 1 December 2014). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-4901 USA. The genus ''Lechea'' is based ...

'' — hairy pinweed * ''

Lechea pulchella ''Lechea'' (pinweed) is a genus in the family Cistaceae of the order Malvales.USDA, NRCS. 2014. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 1 December 2014). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-4901 USA. The genus ''Lechea'' is based ...

'' — Leggett's pinweed * ''

Lechea stricta ''Lechea'' (pinweed) is a genus in the family Cistaceae of the order Malvales.USDA, NRCS. 2014. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 1 December 2014). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-4901 USA. The genus ''Lechea'' is based ...

'' — upright pinweed * ''

Lechea tenuifolia ''Lechea'' (pinweed) is a genus in the family Cistaceae of the order Malvales.USDA, NRCS. 2014. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 1 December 2014). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-4901 USA. The genus ''Lechea'' is based ...

'' — slender pinweed

Clethraceae The Clethraceae are a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, composed of two genera, ''Clethra'' and ''Purdiaea'', with approximately 75 species. They are native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Asia and the Americas, wit ...

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Clethra alnifolia ''Clethra alnifolia'', the coastal sweetpepperbush or summersweet, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Clethra'' of the family Clethraceae, native to eastern North America from southern Nova Scotia and Maine south to northern Florida, ...

'' — coast pepperbush

Cleveaceae

* '' Athalamia hyalina'' * '' Peltolepis quadrata'' * ''

Sauteria alpina ''Sauteria'' is a genus of liverwort in the family Cleveaceae. It contains the following species: * '' Sauteria alpina'' (Nees & Bisch.) Nees * '' Sauteria berteroana'' Mont. nresolved* ''Sauteria chilensis ''Sauteria'' is a genus of liverwo ...

Climaciaceae

* '' Climacium americanum'' — tree moss * '' Climacium dendroides'' — tree climacium moss

Clusiaceae The Clusiaceae or Guttiferae Juss. (1789) (''nom. alt. et cons.'' = alternative and valid name) are a family of plants including 13 genera and ca 750 species. Several former members of Clusiacae are now placed in Calophyllaceae and Hypericaceae. ...

* '' Hypericum anagalloides'' — tinker's-penny * '' Hypericum ascyron'' — great St. John's-wort * '' Hypericum boreale'' — northern St. John's-wort * ''

Hypericum canadense ''Hypericum canadense'', known as Canadian St. Johns-wort, lesser St. John's wort, and lesser Canadian St. Johnswort, is a flowering plant in the genus ''Hypericum''. It is a yellow-flowering annual or perennial herb native to North America and ...

'' — Canadian St. John's-wort * '' Hypericum dissimulatum'' — disguised St. John's-wort * '' Hypericum ellipticum'' — pale St. John's-wort * '' Hypericum gentianoides'' — orange-grass St. John's-wort * '' Hypericum kalmianum'' — Kalm's St. John's-wort * '' Hypericum majus'' — larger Canadian St. John's-wort * '' Hypericum mutilum'' — slender St. John's-wort * '' Hypericum prolificum'' — shrubby St. John's-wort * '' Hypericum punctatum'' — common St. John's-wort * '' Hypericum scouleri'' — western St. John's-wort * '' Hypericum sphaerocarpum'' — roundfruit St. John's-wort * '' Triadenum fraseri'' — marsh St. John's-wort * ''

Triadenum virginicum ''Hypericum virginicum'' (''Triadenum virginicum''), the marsh St. Johns-wort or Virginia marsh St. Johnswort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae. It is native to the central and eastern United States and eastern Canada. ...

'' — Virginia marsh St. John's-wort

Commelinaceae Commelinaceae is a family of flowering plants. In less formal contexts, the group is referred to as the dayflower family or spiderwort family. It is one of five families in the order Commelinales and by far the largest of these with about 731 kn ...

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Tradescantia occidentalis ''Tradescantia occidentalis'', the prairie spiderwort or western spiderwort, is a plant in the dayflower family, Commelinaceae. It is common and widespread across the western Great Plains of the United States, as well as in Arizona, New Mexico, ...

'' — prairie spiderwort * ''

Tradescantia ohiensis ''Tradescantia ohiensis'', commonly known as bluejacket or Ohio spiderwort, is an herbaceous plant species in the genus ''Tradescantia'' native to eastern and central North America. It is the most common and widely distributed species of ''Trade ...

'' — Ohio spiderwort

Conocephalaceae

* '' Conocephalum conicum'' — snakeskin liverwort

Convolvulaceae Convolvulaceae (), commonly called the bindweeds or morning glories, is a family of about 60 genera and more than 1,650 species. These species are primarily herbaceous vines, but also include trees, shrubs and herbs. The tubers of several spec ...

* '' Calystegia macounii'' — Macoun's bindweed * ''

Calystegia sepium ''Calystegia sepium'' (hedge bindweed, Rutland beauty, bugle vine, heavenly trumpets, bellbind, granny-pop-out-of-bed and many others) is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, subcosmopolit ...

'' — hedge false bindweed * '' Calystegia silvatica'' — shortstalk false bindweed * ''

Calystegia soldanella The morning glory ''Calystegia soldanella'' (syn. ''Convolvulus soldanella'') is a species of bindweed known by various common names such as sea bindweed, seashore false bindweed, shore bindweed, shore convolvulus and beach morning glory. Descri ...

'' — seashore bindweed * '' Calystegia spithamaea'' — low bindweed * '' Ipomoea pandurata'' — bigroot morning-glory

Cornaceae The Cornaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants in the order Cornales. The family contains approximately 85 species in two genera, ''Alangium'' and ''Cornus''. They are mostly trees and shrubs, which may be deciduous or evergreen, alt ...

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Cornus alternifolia ''Cornus alternifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae, native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to southern Manitoba and Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and Mississippi. It is rare in the ...

'' — alternate-leaf dogwood * ''

Cornus amomum ''Cornus amomum'', the silky dogwood, is a species of dogwood native to the eastern United States, from Michigan and Vermont south to Alabama and Florida. Other names include red willow, silky cornel, kinnikinnick, and squawbush. Description ' ...

'' — silky dogwood * ''

Cornus canadensis ''Cornus canadensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae, native to eastern Asia and North America. Common names include Canadian dwarf cornel, Canadian bunchberry, quatre-temps, crackerberry, and creeping dogwood. Un ...

'' — Canada bunchberry * ''

Cornus drummondii ''Cornus drummondii'', commonly known as the roughleaf dogwood, is a small deciduous tree that is native primarily to the Great Plains and Midwestern regions of the United States. It is also found around the Mississippi River. It is uncommon in ...

'' — northern roughleaf dogwood * ''

Cornus florida ''Cornus florida'', the flowering dogwood, is a species of flowering tree in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America and northern Mexico. An endemic population once spanned from southernmost coastal Maine south to northern Florida ...

'' — flowering dogwood * ''

Cornus nuttallii ''Cornus nuttallii'', the Pacific dogwood, western dogwood, or mountain dogwood, is a species of dogwood tree native to western North America. Description It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree, reaching tall, often with a canopy spre ...

'' — Pacific dogwood * '' Cornus racemosa'' — grey dogwood * '' Cornus rugosa'' — roundleaf dogwood * ''

Cornus sericea ''Cornus sericea'', the red osier or red-osier dogwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family (biology), family Cornaceae, native to much of North America. It has sometimes been considered a synonym of the Asian species ''Cornus alba''. ...

'' — silky dogwood * ''

Cornus suecica ''Cornus suecica'', the dwarf cornel or bunchberry, is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae, native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of Europe and Asia, and also locally in extreme northeastern and northwestern Nor ...

'' — Swedish dwarf dogwood * '' Cornus × unalaschkensis'' — western dwarf dogwood * '' Cornus × acadiensis'' * '' Cornus × slavinii''

Crassulaceae The Crassulaceae (from Latin ''crassus'', thick), also known as the stonecrop family or the orpine family, are a diverse family of dicotyledon flowering plants characterized by succulent leaves and a unique form of photosynthesis, known as Crass ...

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Crassula aquatica ''Crassula aquatica'' is a succulent plant known by the common names water pygmyweed, common pygmyweed and just pigmyweed. It is an annual plant of salt marshes, vernal pools, wetlands, and other fresh to brackish water bodies. It is at least par ...

'' — water pygmyweed * ''

Crassula connata ''Crassula connata'' is a succulent plant in the family Crassulaceae. It is known by the common names sand pygmyweed and pygmy stonecrop. It is a very small plant which grows in patches on the ground, especially in rocky areas. It is also someti ...

'' — sand pygmyweed * ''

Penthorum sedoides ''Penthorum sedoides'', known by the common name ditch stonecrop, is a perennial forb native to the eastern United States and Canada USDA, NRCS. 2014. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-49 ...

'' — ditch-stonecrop * ''

Rhodiola integrifolia ''Rhodiola integrifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the stonecrop family known by the common names ledge stonecrop, western roseroot, and king's crown. It is native to north-easternmost Russia, including Kamchatka, and western North Ame ...

'' — entire-leaf stonecrop * ''

Rhodiola rosea ''Rhodiola rosea'' (commonly golden root, rose root, roseroot, Aaron's rod, Arctic root, king's crown, ''lignum rhodium'', orpin rose) is a perennial flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae. It grows naturally in wild Arctic regions of Europe ...

'' — roseroot stonecrop * ''

Sedum divergens ''Sedum divergens'', commonly called spreading stonecrop, Cascade stonecrop or Pacific stonecrop, is a low growing flowering plant of the genus ''Sedum''. It is native to western North America from Alaska to northern California. This plant is co ...

'' — spreading stonecrop * ''

Sedum lanceolatum ''Sedum lanceolatum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae known by the common names spearleaf stonecrop and lanceleaf stonecrop. It is native to western North America and occurs in western Canada and the United States. It ...

'' — lanceleaf stonecrop * ''

Sedum oreganum ''Sedum oreganum'' is a species of succulent plant of the genus ''Sedum''. It grows along the Pacific Coast of North America from Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq' ...

'' — Oregon stonecrop * ''

Sedum spathulifolium ''Sedum spathulifolium'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae known by the common names broadleaf stonecrop, yellow stonecrop, and spoon-leaved stonecrop. An evergreen perennial, it is native to western North America from B ...

'' — Pacific stonecrop * ''

Sedum stenopetalum ''Sedum stenopetalum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae known by the common name wormleaf stonecrop, or golden constellation. It is native to western North America from British Columbia and Alberta to northern California ...

'' — narrowpetal stonecrop * ''

Sedum villosum ''Sedum villosum'', known as the hairy stonecrop or purple stonecrop, is a biennial to perennial flowering plant. Its leaves, which are long and may be reddish in colour, are generally covered with hairs, although ''S. villosum'' var. ''gla ...

'' — purple stonecrop

Cucurbitaceae The Cucurbitaceae, also called cucurbits or the gourd family, are a plant family consisting of about 965 species in around 95 genera, of which the most important to humans are: ''Cucurbita'' – squash, pumpkin, zucchini, some gourds ''Lagena ...

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Echinocystis lobata ''Echinocystis'' is a monotypic genus in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. The sole species is ''E. lobata'', commonly called wild cucumber, prickly cucumber or bur cucumber. It is an annual, sprawling plant that is native to North America. Descr ...

'' — wild mock-cucumber * ''

Marah oreganus ''Marah oreganus'', the Oregon manroot, coastal manroot or western wild-cucumber, is a common manroot of the northwest coast of the United States. It ranges from California north to Canada. Foliage Coastal manroot has the least pubescent bud, l ...

'' — coast manroot * '' Sicyos angulatus'' — one-seed bur-cucumber

Cupressaceae Cupressaceae is a conifer family, the cypress family, with worldwide distribution. The family includes 27–30 genera (17 monotypic), which include the junipers and redwoods, with about 130–140 species in total. They are monoecious, subdio ...

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Chamaecyparis nootkatensis ''Callitropsis nootkatensis'', formerly known as ''Cupressus nootkatensis'' ( syn. ''Xanthocyparis nootkatensis'') is a species of trees in the cypress family native to the coastal regions of northwestern North America. This species goes by many ...

'' — Alaska cedar * ''

Juniperus communis ''Juniperus communis'', the common juniper, is a species of small tree or shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae. An evergreen conifer, it has the largest geographical range of any woody plant, with a circumpolar distribution throughout the coo ...

'' — ground juniper * ''

Juniperus horizontalis ''Juniperus horizontalis'', the creeping juniper or creeping cedar,Bailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ''Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada''. Macm ...

'' — creeping juniper * ''

Juniperus scopulorum ''Juniperus scopulorum'', the Rocky Mountain juniper, is a species of juniper native to western North America, from southwest Canada to the Great Plains of the United States. Description ''Juniperus scopulorum'' is a small evergreen conifer ...

'' — Rocky Mountain juniper * ''

Juniperus virginiana ''Juniperus virginiana'', also known as red cedar, eastern red cedar, Virginian juniper, eastern juniper, red juniper, and other local names, is a species of juniper native to eastern North America from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico a ...

'' — eastern red-cedar * '' Juniperus x fassettii'' * ''

Thuja occidentalis ''Thuja occidentalis'', also known as northern white-cedar, eastern white-cedar, or arborvitae, is an evergreen coniferous tree, in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is native to eastern Canada and much of the north-central and northeastern ...

'' — northern white-cedar * ''

Thuja plicata ''Thuja plicata'' is an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to western North America. Its common name is western redcedar (western red cedar in the UK), and it is also called Pacific redcedar, giant arborvitae, w ...

'' — western red-cedar

Cuscutaceae ''Cuscuta'' (), commonly known as dodder or amarbel, is a genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it now is accepted as belonging in the ...

* '' Cuscuta cephalanthi'' — buttonbush dodder * ''

Cuscuta coryli ''Cuscuta coryli'', synonym ''Grammica coryli'', common name hazel dodder, is a perennial plant in the Cuscutaceae family native to North America. Conservation status in the United States It is listed as a special concern and believed extirpa ...

'' — hazel dodder * '' Cuscuta gronovii'' — Gronovius dodder * '' Cuscuta megalocarpa'' — bigfruit dodder * '' Cuscuta pentagona'' — field dodder * '' Cuscuta polygonorum'' — smartweed dodder * ''

Cuscuta salina ''Cuscuta salina'' is a species of dodder known by the English name salt marsh dodder and is a native plant of western North America. The habitat includes coastal tidal wetlands in California, as well as saline habitats away from the coast, such ...

'' — saltmarsh dodder

Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' w ...

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Blysmus rufus ''Blysmus rufus'' is a species of sedge The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the larges ...

'' — red bulrush * ''

Bulbostylis capillaris ''Bulbostylis capillaris'' is a species of sedge known by the common names densetuft hairsedge and threadleaf beakseed. It is native to much of North America, South America and the West Indies from Canada to Bolivia. ''Bulbostylis capillaris'' g ...

'' — densetuft hairsedge * ''

Carex adelostoma ''Carex adelostoma'' is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to the subarctic The subarctic zone is a region in the Northern Hemisphere immediately south of the true Arctic, north of humid ...

'' — circumpolar sedge * ''

Carex adusta ''Carex adusta'', commonly known as the lesser brown sedge or the browned sedge, is a species of sedge (''Carex'') in the section ''Ovales''. First described scientifically in 1839 by Francis Boott Francis Boott (26 September 1792 – 25 De ...

'' — crowded sedge * '' Carex aggregata'' — glomerate sedge * '' Carex alata'' — broadwing sedge * '' Carex albicans'' — bellow-beaked sedge * '' Carex albonigra'' — black-and-white scale sedge * '' Carex albursina'' — white bear sedge * '' Carex alopecoidea'' — foxtail sedge * ''

Carex amphibola ''Carex amphibola'', known as gray sedge, is a species of flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Gr ...

'' — eastern narrowleaf sedge * ''

Carex amplifolia ''Carex amplifolia'' is a species of sedge known by the common name bigleaf sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Montana to California, where it grows in wet and seasonally wet areas in coniferous forests. Descri ...

'' — bigleaf sedge * '' Carex anguillata'' — snail sedge * '' Carex annectens'' — yellowfruit sedge * '' Carex anthoxanthea'' — yellow-flowered sedge * '' Carex aperta'' — Columbian sedge * '' Carex appalachica'' — Appalachian sedge * ''

Carex aquatilis ''Carex aquatilis'' is a species of Carex, sedge known as water sedge and leafy tussock sedge. It has a Circumboreal Region, circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout the northern reaches of the Northern Hemisphere. It grows in many types o ...

'' — water sedge * '' Carex arcta'' — northern clustered sedge * '' Carex arctata'' — black sedge * '' Carex arctiformis'' — polar sedge * '' Carex argyrantha'' — hay sedge * '' Carex assiniboinensis'' — Assiniboine sedge * '' Carex atherodes'' — awned sedge * '' Carex athrostachya'' — jointed-spike sedge * '' Carex atlantica'' — prickly bog sedge * '' Carex atratiformis'' — black sedge * ''

Carex atrofusca Carex atrofusca, the dark brown sedge or scorched alpine sedge, is a species of sedge with a circumpolar or circumboreal distribution in the northern hemisphere. Description Carex atrofusca is a perennial cespitose loosely tufted sedge appro ...

'' — scorched alpine sedge * '' Carex atrosquama'' — blackened sedge * ''

Carex aurea ''Carex aurea'' is a species of sedge known by the common name golden sedge. It is native to much of North America, including most of Canada and the western, upper Midwest, and northeastern United States. It grows in wet habitat, often on soils ...

'' — golden-fruit sedge * '' Carex backii'' — Rocky Mountain sedge * '' Carex baileyi'' — Bailey's sedge * ''

Carex bebbii ''Carex bebbii'', Bebb's sedge, is a species of Carex, sedge native to the northern United States and Canada. ''Carex bebbii'' grows in a variety of wetland habitats such as lakeshores, streambanks, ditches, meadows, swamps, and seeps. It forms d ...

'' — Bebb's sedge * '' Carex bicknellii'' — Bicknell's sedge * ''

Carex bicolor ''Carex bicolor'', the bicoloured sedge, is a species of Cyperaceae, sedge native to North America, Northern Europe and Northern Asia. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the plant's conservation status as being of Lea ...

'' — two-colour sedge * ''

Carex bigelowii ''Carex bigelowii'' is a species of sedge known by the common names Bigelow's sedge, Gwanmo sedge, and stiff sedge. It has an Arctic–alpine distribution in Eurasia and North America, and grows up to tall in a variety of habitats. Distribution ...

'' — Bigelow's sedge * '' Carex bipartita'' — Arctic hare's-foot sedge * ''

Carex blanda ''Carex blanda'', the common woodland sedge or eastern woodland sedge, is a sedge native to a wide variety of habitats in the eastern and central United States and Canada. Its leaves are wide and long. The stem usually has a staminate (male) s ...

'' — woodland sedge * '' Carex bolanderi'' — Bolander's sedge * '' Carex bonanzensis'' — Yukon sedge * '' Carex brevicaulis'' — shortstem sedge * '' Carex brevior'' — fescue sedge * ''

Carex bromoides ''Carex bromoides'', known as brome-like sedge, brome-sedge, and dropseed of the woods, is a species of sedge in the genus ''Carex''. It is native to North America. Taxonomy ''Carex bromoides'' was described by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1805. It ...

'' — bromelike sedge * '' Carex brunnescens'' — brownish sedge * '' Carex bullata'' — button sedge * '' Carex buxbaumii'' — Buxbaum's sedge * ''

Carex canescens ''Carex canescens'' L. (syn. ''C. cinerea'' Poll.; ''C. curta'' Gooden.) is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae growing in damp forests and wetlands. It is widespread across much of Europe, Asia, Australia, New Guinea, North A ...

'' — hoary sedge * '' Carex capillaris'' — hairlike sedge * '' Carex capitata'' — capitate sedge * '' Carex careyana'' — Carey's sedge * '' Carex castanea'' — chestnut-coloured sedge * '' Carex cephaloidea'' — thinleaf sedge * '' Carex cephalophora'' — ovalleaf sedge * '' Carex chordorrhiza'' — creeping sedge * '' Carex circinata'' — coiled sedge * '' Carex communis'' — fibrous-root sedge * ''

Carex comosa ''Carex comosa'' is a species of sedge known as longhair sedge and bristly sedge. It is native to North America, where it grows in western and eastern regions of Canada and the United States, and parts of Mexico. It grows in wet places, including ...

'' — bristly sedge * '' Carex concinna'' — beautiful sedge * '' Carex concinnoides'' — northwestern sedge * '' Carex conoidea'' — field sedge * '' Carex cordillerana'' — Cordillera sedge * ''

Carex crawei ''Carex crawei'', commonly called Crawe's sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family. It is native to North America, where it is widespread in the United States and Canada. Though widespread, it has a patchy distribution and is g ...

'' — Crawe's sedge * '' Carex crawfordii'' — Crawford's sedge * '' Carex crinita'' — fringed sedge * '' Carex cristatella'' — crested sedge * '' Carex crus-corvi'' — ravenfoot sedge * '' Carex cryptolepis'' — northeastern sedge * '' Carex cumulata'' — clustered sedge * ''

Carex cusickii ''Carex cusickii'' is a species of sedge known by the common name Cusick's sedge. It is native to Northwestern North America from British Columbia to California, and in Utah, where it can be found in several types of wet habitat, such as marshes ...

'' — Cusick's sedge * '' Carex davisii'' — Davis' sedge * '' Carex debilis'' — white-edge sedge * '' Carex deflexa'' — short-stemmed sedge * ''

Carex deweyana ''Carex deweyana'' Dewey's sedge, short-scale sedge, is a species of sedge native to Canada and the United States. Description ''Carex deweyana'' grows in dense tufts, with relatively wide( .6 to 4.2 mm) leaves produced on shorter stalks near th ...

'' — shortscale sedge * '' Carex diandra'' — lesser panicled sedge * '' Carex digitalis'' — slender wood sedge * ''

Carex disperma ''Carex disperma'' is a species of sedge known by the common names softleaf sedge or two-seed sedge. It is native to much of the northern Northern Hemisphere, from Alaska to Greenland, most of Canada and the contiguous United States, and across E ...

'' — softleaf sedge * '' Carex douglasii'' — Douglas' sedge * '' Carex duriuscula'' — needleleaf sedge * '' Carex dutillyi'' — Dutilly's sedge * '' Carex eburnea'' — ebony sedge * ''

Carex echinata ''Carex echinata'' is a species of sedge known by the common names star sedge and little prickly sedge. Description ''Carex echinata'' has a solid, ridged stem that may exceed in height and it has a few thready leaves toward the base. The inflo ...

'' — little prickly sedge * '' Carex eleusinoides'' — goosegrass sedge * '' Carex emoryi'' — Emory's sedge * '' Carex engelmannii'' — Engelmann's sedge * ''

Carex exilis ''Carex exilis'', common name coastal sedge or meager sedge, is a species of ''Carex'' native to North America, with several disjunct populations from southern Canada to the Gulf Coast. It is rare in much of its range and is listed as an endanger ...

'' — coast sedge * '' Carex exsiccata'' — beaked sedge * '' Carex festucacea'' — fescue sedge * '' Carex feta'' — green-sheath sedge * '' Carex filifolia'' — thread-leaved sedge * '' Carex flaccosperma'' — thinfruit sedge * ''

Carex flava ''Carex flava'', called hedgehog grass, is a widespread species of sedge (genus ''Carex''), native to the northern United States, Canada, Iceland, Europe, the Atlas Mountains in Africa, the Transcaucasus area, and parts of Siberia. It is the name ...

'' — yellow sedge * '' Carex folliculata'' — long sedge * '' Carex formosa'' — handsome sedge * '' Carex frankii'' — Frank's sedge * ''

Carex garberi ''Carex garberi'' is a species of sedge known by the common names elk sedge and Garber's sedge native to North America. Distribution It is native to northern North America, where it occurs throughout Canada and Alaska and at higher elevations as ...

'' — elk sedge * '' Carex geyeri'' — Geyer's sedge * ''

Carex glacialis The genus ''Carex'', the sedges, is one of the largest genera of flowering plants, containing around 1800 species, according to a 2004 estimate. All the species (including hybrid species) accepted by ''The Plant List'' are given below: In May ...

'' — alpine sedge * '' Carex glareosa'' — weak-cluster sedge * '' Carex gmelinii'' — Gmelin's sedge * ''

Carex gracilescens ''Carex'' is a vast genus of more than 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books). Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus ''Carex' ...

'' — slender sedge * '' Carex gracillima'' — graceful sedge * '' Carex granularis'' — meadow sedge * '' Carex gravida'' — heavy-fruited sedge * '' Carex grayi'' — Asa Gray's sedge * '' Carex grisea'' — inflated narrowleaf sedge * ''

Carex gynandra ''Carex gynandra'', also known as nodding sedge, is a species of flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived fro ...

'' — nodding sedge * '' Carex gynocrates'' — northern bog sedge * '' Carex hallii'' — Hall's sedge * '' Carex hassei'' — Hasse's sedge * '' Carex haydeniana'' — Hayden's sedge * '' Carex haydenii'' — cloud sedge * ''

Carex heleonastes ''Carex heleonastes'' is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Cyperaceae. Its native range is Europe to Russian Far East The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=� ...

'' — Hudson Bay sedge * '' Carex hendersonii'' — Henderson's sedge * '' Carex heteroneura'' — different-nerve sedge * '' Carex hirsutella'' — hirsute sedge * '' Carex hirtifolia'' — pubescent sedge * '' Carex hitchcockiana'' — Hitchcock's sedge * '' Carex holostoma'' — Arctic marsh sedge * '' Carex hoodii'' — Hood's sedge * '' Carex hookeriana'' — Hooker's sedge * '' Carex hormathodes'' — marsh straw sedge * '' Carex hostiana'' — host sedge * '' Carex houghtoniana'' — Houghton's sedge * '' Carex houghtoniana'' — shoreline sedge * '' Carex hystericina'' — porcupine sedge * '' Carex illota'' — smallhead sedge * '' Carex incurviformis'' — seaside sedge * '' Carex infirminervia'' * '' Carex inops'' — longstolon sedge * '' Carex interior'' — inland sedge * '' Carex interrupta'' — green-fruited sedge * '' Carex intumescens'' — greater bladder sedge * '' Carex jamesii'' — Nebraska sedge * ''

Carex juniperorum ''Carex juniperorum'', the juniper sedge, is a perennial flowering plant native to North America, first described by botanist William J. Crins in 1993. ''C. juniperorum'' is in the ''Cyperaceae'' (sedge) family, and is closely related to '' C ...

'' — cedar sedge * '' Carex krausei'' — Krause's sedge * '' Carex lacustris'' — lakebank sedge * '' Carex laeviconica'' — smooth-cone sedge * '' Carex laeviculmis'' — smoothstem sedge * '' Carex laevivaginata'' — smooth-sheath sedge * '' Carex lapponica'' — Lapland sedge * '' Carex lasiocarpa'' — slender sedge * '' Carex laxa'' — weak sedge * ''

Carex laxiculmis ''Carex laxiculmis'', the creeping sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5, ...

'' — spreading sedge * '' Carex laxiflora'' — looseflower sedge * '' Carex leavenworthii'' — Leavenworth's sedge * '' Carex lenticularis'' — shore sedge * '' Carex leptalea'' — bristly-stalk sedge * ''

Carex leptonervia ''Carex leptonervia'', also known as nerveless woodland sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The ...

'' — finely-nerve sedge * '' Carex leptopoda'' — short-scaled sedge * '' Carex limosa'' — mud sedge * '' Carex livida'' — livid sedge * '' Carex loliacea'' — rye-grass sedge * '' Carex longii'' — greenish-white sedge * '' Carex lucorum'' — blue ridge sedge * '' Carex lugens'' — spruce-muskeg sedge * '' Carex lupuliformis'' — false hop sedge * ''

Carex lupulina ''Carex lupulina'', known as hop sedge or common hop sedge, is a species of Carex, sedge native to most of eastern North America. It was first species description, formally named in 1805. References

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'' — hop sedge * '' Carex lurida'' — shallow sedge * '' Carex luzulina'' — woodrush sedge * '' Carex lyngbyei'' — Lyngbye's sedge * '' Carex mackenziei'' — MacKenzie's sedge * '' Carex macloviana'' — Falkland Island sedge * '' Carex macrocephala'' — bighead sedge * '' Carex macrochaeta'' — Alaska largeawn sedge * ''

Carex magellanica ''Carex magellanica'', or the boreal bog sedge, is a Carex species that is native to North America. It is listed as endangered in Connecticut. Description ''Carex magellanica'' grows loosely tufted from a short to long rhizome. Its culms gr ...

'' — boreal bog sedge * '' Carex marina'' — sea sedge * '' Carex maritima'' — seaside sedge * '' Carex meadii'' — Mead's sedge * '' Carex membranacea'' — fragile-seed sedge * '' Carex merritt-fernaldii'' — Merritt Fernald's sedge * '' Carex mertensii'' — Merten's sedge * '' Carex mesochorea'' — midland sedge * '' Carex michauxiana'' — Michaux's sedge * '' Carex microchaeta'' — alpine tundra sedge * ''

Carex microglochin ''Carex microglochin'', called the fewseeded bog sedge and bristle sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Carex'', native to temperate and subarctic North America, South America, Europe and Asia. It is uncertain which hemisphere it ...

'' — false uncinia sedge * '' Carex microptera'' — smallwing sedge * '' Carex misandra'' — shortleaf sedge * '' Carex misandroides'' — man-hater sedge * '' Carex molesta'' — troublesome sedge * '' Carex muehlenbergii'' — Mühlenberg's sedge * ''

Carex muskingumensis ''Carex muskingumensis'' is a species of sedge known by the common name Muskingum sedge. It is native primarily to the Midwestern United States where it is found in wet areas such as swamps, low woods, and sedge meadows. It is a fairly conservat ...

'' — Muskingum sedge * '' Carex nardina'' — nard sedge * '' Carex nebrascensis'' — Nebraska sedge * '' Carex nigra'' — black sedge * '' Carex nigricans'' — black alpine sedge * ''

Carex nigromarginata ''Carex nigromarginata'' is a North American sedge The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, ...

'' — blackedge sedge * ''

Carex normalis ''Carex normalis'', the greater straw sedge, is a species of Cyperaceae, sedge that was first described by Kenneth Kent Mackenzie, Kenneth Mackenzie in 1919. References

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'' — greater straw sedge * '' Carex norvegica'' — Scandinavian sedge * '' Carex novae-angliae'' — New England sedge * '' Carex obnupta'' — slough sedge * '' Carex obtusata'' — blunt sedge * '' Carex oligocarpa'' — eastern few-fruit sedge * '' Carex oligosperma'' — few-seed sedge * '' Carex ormostachya'' — necklace spike sedge * ''Carex ovalis'' Willd. ex Kunth — ''

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, ''C. scoparia'' * '' Carex pachystachya'' — thickhead sedge * '' Carex paleacea'' — chaffy sedge * '' Carex pallescens'' — pale sedge * ''

Carex pansa ''Carex pansa'' is a species of sedge known by the common name sand dune sedge. It is native to coast of western North America from British Columbia to California, where it grows in dunes and other sandy habitat. This grasslike sedge produces sha ...

'' — sand-dune sedge * '' Carex parryana'' — Parry's sedge * '' Carex pauciflora'' — few-flower sedge * '' Carex paysonis'' — Payson's sedge * '' Carex peckii'' — white-tinged sedge * '' Carex pedunculata'' — longstalk sedge * '' Carex pellita'' — woolly sedge * '' Carex pensylvanica'' — Pennsylvania sedge * '' Carex petasata'' — liddon sedge * '' Carex petricosa'' — rock sedge * '' Carex phaeocephala'' — mountain hare sedge * '' Carex piperi'' — Piper's sedge * ''

Carex plantaginea ''Carex plantaginea'', commonly known as carex plantain, plaintainleaf sedge, or seersucker sedge,Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, Duhl, Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians, Lone Pine Publishing, (2005) p 397, is a ...

'' — plantain-leaf sedge * '' Carex platylepis'' — broadscale sedge * ''

Carex platyphylla ''Carex platyphylla'', called the broad leaf sedge and silver sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Carex ''Carex'' is a vast genus of more than 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sed ...

'' — broadleaf sedge * '' Carex pluriflora'' — several-flowered sedge * '' Carex podocarpa'' — shortstalk sedge * '' Carex praeceptorum'' — teacher's sedge * '' Carex praegracilis'' — clustered field sedge * '' Carex prairea'' — prairie sedge * '' Carex prasina'' — drooping sedge * '' Carex praticola'' — northern meadow sedge * '' Carex preslii'' — Presl's sedge * ''

Carex projecta ''Carex projecta'', the necklace sedge, is a species of sedge The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about ...

'' — necklace sedge * '' Carex proposita'' — Smoky Mountain sedge * ''

Carex pseudocyperus ''Carex pseudocyperus'' is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name cyperus sedge or hop sedge. It grows in marshes, swamps, and the margins of ponds, rivers and canals. The stems can be up to with one male spik ...

'' — cyperus-like sedge * '' Carex pyrenaica'' — Pyrenean sedge * '' Carex radiata'' — stellate sedge * '' Carex ramenskii'' — Ramenski's sedge * '' Carex rariflora'' — loose-flowered sedge * '' Carex raymondii'' — black sedge * '' Carex raynoldsii'' — Raynolds' sedge * '' Carex recta'' — saltmarsh sedge * ''

Carex retroflexa ''Carex'' is a vast genus of more than 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books). Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus ''Carex'' ...

'' — reflexed sedge * '' Carex retrorsa'' — retrorse sedge * '' Carex richardsonii'' — Richardson's sedge * ''

Carex rosea ''Carex rosea'', the rosy sedge, is a flowering plant and part of the family Cyperaceae. Synonyms for ''Carex rosea'' include ''Carex concoluta'', and ''Carex flaccidula''. It is native to central and eastern North America and it exists in wet to ...

'' — rosy sedge * ''

Carex rossii ''Carex rossii'', commonly known as Ross's sedge, is a hardy species of Carex, sedge that is often a pioneer species in areas with little or no established vegetation, or in places where disturbance (ecology), disturbance has occurred. Ross's sed ...

'' — short sedge * ''

Carex rostrata ''Carex rostrata'', the bottle sedge or beaked sedge, is a perennial species of sedge in the family Cyperaceae. Range and habitat The species is native to Holarctic fens and can be found in Canada and the northern part of the United States, and ...

'' — beaked sedge * '' Carex rotundata'' — roundfruit sedge * '' Carex rufina'' — snowbed sedge * ''

Carex rupestris ''Carex rupestris'', called the curly sedge and rock sedge (names it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to temperate and subarctic North America, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, ...

'' — rock sedge * '' Carex sabulosa'' — sand sedge * '' Carex salina'' — saltmarsh sedge * ''

Carex sartwellii ''Carex'' is a vast genus of more than 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books). Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus ''Carex'' ...

'' — Sartwell's sedge * '' Carex saxatilis'' — russett sedge * '' Carex saximontana'' — Rocky Mountain sedge * '' Carex scabrata'' — rough sedge * '' Carex schweinitzii'' — Schweinitz' sedge * ''

Carex scirpoidea ''Carex scirpoidea'' is a species of sedge belonging to the family Cyperaceae. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. Its native range is Norway ( Solvågtind), Russia (Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r= ...

'' — bulrush sedge * ''

Carex scoparia ''Carex scoparia'' is a species of sedge known by the common names broom sedge and pointed broom sedge. It should not be confused with the unrelated grass species known as "broom sedge," ''Andropogon virginicus''. Distribution This sedge is nat ...

'' — broom sedge * '' Carex scopulorum'' — Holm's Rocky Mountain sedge * '' Carex seorsa'' — weak stellate sedge * ''

Carex shortiana ''Carex'' is a vast genus of more than 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books). Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus ''Carex' ...

'' — Short's sedge * '' Carex siccata'' — dryspike sedge * '' Carex silicea'' — seabeach sedge * '' Carex simulata'' — copycat sedge * '' Carex sparganioides'' — bur-reed sedge * '' Carex spectabilis'' — northwestern showy sedge * '' Carex sprengelii'' — longbeak sedge * ''

Carex squarrosa ''Carex squarrosa'' is a species of sedge (genus ''Carex''), native to the central and eastern United States, and Ontario in Canada. It is typically found in bottomland hardwood forest The bottomland hardwood forest is a type of deciduous and ev ...

'' — squarrose sedge * '' Carex sterilis'' — dioecious sedge * ''

Carex stipata ''Carex stipata'', variously called the prickly sedge, awl-fruited sedge, awlfruit sedge, owlfruit sedge, swamp sedge, sawbeak sedge, stalk-grain sedge and common fox sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Carex ''Carex'' is a v ...

'' — awl-fruit sedge * '' Carex striatula'' — lined sedge * '' Carex stricta'' — tussock sedge * '' Carex stylosa'' — long-styled sedge * ''

Carex suberecta ''Carex suberecta'', known as prairie straw sedge, is a species of sedge The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species describe ...

'' — prairie straw sedge * '' Carex subfusca'' — rusty sedge * '' Carex subspathacea'' — Hoppner's sedge * '' Carex supina'' — weak Arctic sedge * ''

Carex swanii ''Carex swanii'', known as Swan's sedge or downy green sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is ...

'' — Swan's sedge * '' Carex sychnocephala'' — many-headed sedge * '' Carex tahoensis'' — Lake Tahoe sedge * ''

Carex tenera ''Carex tenera'', known as quill sedge, is a species of sedge native to the northern United States and Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacifi ...

'' — slender sedge * ''

Carex tenuiflora ''Carex tenuiflora'', the sparse-flowered sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to the Subarctic and Hemiboreal Northern Hemisphere; Alaska, Canada, the northern US, Scandinavia, the Baltic States, all of R ...

'' — sparseflower sedge * '' Carex terrae-novae'' — Newfoundland sedge * ''

Carex tetanica ''Carex tetanica'', also known as rigid sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, ...

'' — rigid sedge * '' Carex tincta'' — tinged sedge * ''

Carex tonsa ''Carex tonsa'', also known as shaved sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, w ...

'' — shaved sedge * '' Carex torreyi'' — Torrey's sedge * '' Carex torta'' — twisted sedge * ''

Carex tribuloides ''Carex tribuloides'', the blunt broom sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Carex'', native to the eastern United States, eastern Canada, and Veracruz in Mexico, and introduced in Sweden. It is an important food for soras (''Porz ...

'' — blunt broom sedge * '' Carex trichocarpa'' — hairyfruit sedge * '' Carex trisperma'' — three-seed sedge * ''

Carex tuckermanii ''Carex tuckermanii'', commonly known as Tuckerman's sedge, is a species of true sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is a perennial plant native to North America. Conservation status ''Carex tuckermanii'' is listed as endangered in Illinois, Mar ...

'' — Tuckerman's sedge * '' Carex tumulicola'' — foothill sedge * '' Carex typhina'' — cattail sedge * ''

Carex umbellata ''Carex umbellata'', the parasol sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Carex'', native to Canada and the central and eastern US, and introduced to the Dominican Republic. Its seeds are Myrmecochory, dispersed by ants. References< ...

'' — hidden sedge * '' Carex unilateralis'' — one-sided sedge * '' Carex ursina'' — bear sedge * '' Carex utriculata'' — beaked sedge * '' Carex vacillans'' * '' Carex vaginata'' — sheathed sedge * '' Carex vallicola'' — valley sedge * ''

Carex vesicaria ''Carex vesicaria'' is an essentially Holarctic species of sedge known as bladder sedge, inflated sedge, and blister sedge. It has been used to insulate footwear in Norway and among the Sami people, and for basketry in North America. Description ...

'' — inflated sedge * ''

Carex virescens ''Carex virescens'', the ribbed sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to eastern North America. It strongly resembles and has nearly the same range as ''Carex swanii ''Carex swanii'', known as Swan's sedge o ...

'' — ribbed sedge * ''

Carex viridula ''Carex viridula'', known as little green sedge, green sedge, or greenish sedge, is a small flowering plant native to North America, Europe, Asia, and Morocco. Taxonomy ''Carex viridula'' is in the section ''Carex'' sect. ''Ceratocystis'', a ...

'' — little green sedge * ''

Carex vulpinoidea ''Carex vulpinoidea'' is a species of sedge known as fox sedge and American fox-sedge. It is native to North America, including most of Canada, the Dominican Republic, the United States and parts of Mexico. It is known in Europe and New Zealand a ...

Cladium mariscoides ''Cladium mariscoides'', called smooth sawgrass, is a plant species native to eastern North America. It has been reported from every US state along the Gulf and Atlantic seashores except Louisiana, as well as every Great Lakes state, plus Verm ...

'' — twigrush * '' Cyperus bipartitus'' — shining flatsedge * '' Cyperus dentatus'' — toothed sedge * '' Cyperus diandrus'' — umbrella flatsedge * '' Cyperus echinatus'' — globe flatsedge * ''

Cyperus eragrostis ''Cyperus eragrostis'' is a species of sedge known by several common names, including tall flatsedge, nutgrass, tall nutgrass, umbrella sedge, chufa, Earth almond, zula nuts, edible galingale and pale galingale. Distribution This species is na ...

'' — tall flatsedge * '' Cyperus erythrorhizos'' — redroot flatsedge * ''

Cyperus esculentus ''Cyperus esculentus'' (also called chufa, tiger nut, atadwe, yellow nutsedge, and earth almond) is a species of plant in the sedge family widespread across much of the world. It is found in most of the Eastern Hemisphere, including Southern Eu ...

'' — Chufa flatsedge * '' Cyperus flavescens'' — yellow flatsedge * '' Cyperus houghtonii'' — Houghton's umbrella-sedge * ''

Cyperus lupulinus ''Cyperus lupulinus'', the Great Plains flatsedge, is a plant species native to North America. It is widespread across southeastern Canada and the central and northeastern United States as far west as Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, with more i ...

'' — Great Plains flatsedge * '' Cyperus odoratus'' — rusty flatsedge * ''

Cyperus schweinitzii ''Cyperus schweinitzii'' is a species of sedge that is native to parts of North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the ...

'' — Schweinitz' flatsedge * '' Cyperus squarrosus'' — awned cyperus * '' Cyperus strigosus'' — straw-coloured flatsedge * '' Dulichium arundinaceum'' — three-way sedge * ''

Eleocharis acicularis ''Eleocharis acicularis'' is a species of spikesedge known by the common names needle spikerush and least spikerush. It is widespread across Europe, central and southeastern Asia, North America and northeastern South America as far south as Ecu ...

'' — least spikerush * '' Eleocharis aestuum'' * ''

Eleocharis atropurpurea ''Eleocharis atropurpurea'' is a species of spikesedge known by the common name purple spikerush. This is an aquatic plant native to much of (Africa, eastern and southern Asia, Australia, Latin America). It also has a wide distribution in tempe ...

'' — purple spikerush * ''

Eleocharis compressa ''Eleocharis'' is a virtually cosmopolitan genus of 250 or more species of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. The name is derived from the Greek words ἕλειος (''heleios''), meaning "marsh dweller," and χάρις (''charis'' ...

'' — flat-stemmed spikerush * '' Eleocharis diandra'' — Wright's spikerush * '' Eleocharis elliptica'' — slender spikerush * '' Eleocharis engelmannii'' — Engelmann's spikerush * ''

Eleocharis equisetoides ''Eleocharis equisetoides'', with common names including horsetail spike-rush, jointed spike-rush, spikesedge, and knotted spike-rush, is a plant species native to the United States and Ontario, usually in freshwater wetland areas. It is known pr ...

'' — horsetail spikerush * '' Eleocharis erythropoda'' — bald spikerush * '' Eleocharis fallax'' — creeping spikerush * ''

Eleocharis geniculata ''Eleocharis geniculata'' is a species of spikesedge known by several common names, including bent spikerush and Canada spikesedge. This is a widespread plant of wet areas in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Australia, Madagascar, and some Pacific Is ...

'' — capitate spikerush * ''Eleocharis halophila'' — saltmarsh spikerush * ''Eleocharis intermedia'' — matted spikerush * ''Eleocharis kamtschatica'' — Kamtchatka spikerush * ''Eleocharis macrostachya'' — creeping spikerush * ''Eleocharis mamillata'' — softstem spikerush * ''Eleocharis nitida'' — slender spikerush * ''Eleocharis obtusa'' — blunt spikerush * ''Eleocharis olivacea'' — capitate spikerush * ''Eleocharis ovata'' — ovate spikerush * ''Eleocharis palustris'' — creeping spikerush * ''Eleocharis parvula'' — small spikerush * ''Eleocharis quadrangulata'' — squarestem spikerush * ''Eleocharis quinqueflora'' — few-flower spikerush * ''Eleocharis robbinsii'' — Robbins' spikerush * ''Eleocharis rostellata'' — beaked spikerush * ''Eleocharis smallii'' — Small's creeping spikerush * ''Eleocharis tenuis'' — slender spikerush * ''Eleocharis tuberculosa'' — long-tuberculed spikerush * ''Eleocharis uniglumis'' — creeping spikerush * ''Eriophorum altaicum'' — white-bristle cottongrass * ''Eriophorum angustifolium'' — narrowleaf cottongrass * ''Eriophorum brachyantherum'' — shortanther cottongrass * ''Eriophorum callitrix'' — sheathed cottongrass * ''Eriophorum chamissonis'' — russett cottongrass * ''Eriophorum gracile'' — slender cottongrass * ''Eriophorum russeolum'' — russet cottongrass * ''Eriophorum scheuchzeri'' — Scheuchzer's cottongrass * ''Eriophorum tenellum'' — rough cottongrass * ''Eriophorum vaginatum'' — tussock cottongrass * ''Eriophorum virginicum'' — tawny cottongrass * ''Eriophorum viridicarinatum'' — green-keeled cottongrass * ''Eriophorum x gauthieri'' — Gauthier's cottongrass * ''Eriophorum x medium'' * ''Eriophorum x porsildii'' — Porsild's cottongrass * ''Eriophorum x pylaieanum'' * ''Eriophorum x rousseauanum'' — Rousseau's cottongrass * ''Fimbristylis autumnalis'' — slender fimbry * ''Fimbristylis puberula'' — hairy fimbristylis * ''Fuirena pumila'' — dwarf umbrella-sedge * ''Isolepis cernua'' — low bulrush * ''Kobresia myosuroides'' — Pacific kobresia * ''Kobresia sibirica'' — Siberian kobresia * ''Kobresia simpliciuscula'' — simple kobresia * ''Lipocarpha micrantha'' — dwarf bulrush * ''Rhynchospora alba'' — white beakrush * ''Rhynchospora capillacea'' — horned beakrush * ''Rhynchospora capitellata'' — brownish beakrush * ''Rhynchospora fusca'' — brown beakrush * ''Schoenoplectus acutus'' — hardstem bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus americanus'' — three-square bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus fluviatilis'' — river bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus heterochaetus'' — slender bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus maritimus'' — saltmarsh bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus novae-angliae'' — New England bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus pungens'' — three-square bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus purshianus'' — weakstalk bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus robustus'' — saltmarsh bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus saximontanus'' — Rocky Mountain bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus smithii'' — Smith's bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus subterminalis'' — water bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani'' — softstem bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus torreyi'' — Torrey's bulrush * ''Schoenoplectus x oblongus'' * ''Scirpus atrocinctus'' — black-girdle bulrush * ''Scirpus atrovirens'' — woolgrass bulrush * ''Scirpus cyperinus'' — cottongrass bulrush * ''Scirpus expansus'' — woodland beakrush * ''Scirpus georgianus'' — Georgia bulrush * ''Scirpus hattorianus'' * ''Scirpus longii'' — Long's bulrush * ''Scirpus microcarpus'' — smallfruit bulrush * ''Scirpus nevadensis'' — Nevada bulrush * ''Scirpus pallidus'' — pale bulrush * ''Scirpus pedicellatus'' — stalked bulrush * ''Scirpus pendulus'' — pendulous bulrush * ''Scirpus x peckii'' — Peck's bulrush * ''Scleria pauciflora'' — few-flower nutrush * ''Scleria triglomerata'' — whip nutrush * ''Scleria verticillata'' — low nutrush * ''Trichophorum alpinum'' — alpine cottongrass * ''Trichophorum caespitosum'' — tufted clubrush * ''Trichophorum clintonii'' — Clinton's bulrush * ''Trichophorum planifolium'' — bashful bulrush * ''Trichophorum pumilum'' — Rolland's leafless-bulrush {{div col end Flora of Canada, *

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