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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 ...

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Ulmaceae The Ulmaceae () are a family of flowering plants that includes the elms (genus ''Ulmus''), and the zelkovas (genus ''Zelkova''). Members of the family are widely distributed throughout the north temperate zone, and have a scattered distribution ...

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Ulmus americana ''Ulmus americana'', generally known as the American elm or, less commonly, as the white elm or water elm, is a species of elm native to eastern North America, naturally occurring from Nova Scotia west to Alberta and Montana, and south to Flor ...

'' — American elm * ''

Ulmus rubra ''Ulmus rubra'', the slippery elm, is a species of elm native to eastern North America. Other common names include red elm, gray elm, soft elm, moose elm, and Indian elm. Description ''Ulmus rubra'' is a medium-sized deciduous tree with a spre ...

'' — slippery elm * ''

Ulmus thomasii ''Ulmus thomasii'', the rock elm or cork elm (or orme liège in Québec), is a deciduous tree native primarily to the Midwestern United States. The tree ranges from southern Ontario and Quebec, south to Tennessee, west to northeastern Kansas, ...

'' — rock elm

Urticaceae The Urticaceae are a family, the nettle family, of flowering plants. The family name comes from the genus ''Urtica''. The Urticaceae include a number of well-known and useful plants, including nettles in the genus ''Urtica'', ramie (''Boehmeri ...

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Boehmeria cylindrica ''Boehmeria cylindrica'', with common names false nettle and bog hemp, is an herb in the family Urticaceae. It is widespread in eastern North America and the Great Plains from New Brunswick to Florida to Texas to Nebraska, with scattered repor ...

'' — smallspike false nettle * ''

Laportea canadensis ''Laportea canadensis'', commonly called Canada nettle or wood-nettle, is an annual or perennial herbaceous plant of the nettle family Urticaceae, native to eastern and central North America. It is found growing in open woods with moist rich soi ...

'' — Canada wood-nettle * '' Parietaria pensylvanica'' — Pennsylvania pellitory * ''

Pilea fontana ''Pilea fontana'', the lesser clearweed, is an herbaceous plant which is very similar to '' Pilea pumila'' (both occupying an almost identical range covering most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, also known a ...

'' — springs clearweed * ''

Pilea pumila ''Pilea pumila'', commonly known as clearweed, Canadian clearweed, coolwort or richweed, is an herbaceous plant in the nettle family (Urticaceae). It is native to Asia and eastern North America, where it is broadly distributed. This plant is mos ...

'' — Canada clearweed * ''

Urtica dioica ''Urtica dioica'', often known as common nettle, burn nettle, stinging nettle (although not all plants of this species sting) or nettle leaf, or just a nettle or stinger, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Urticaceae. Ori ...

'' — stinging nettle

Valerianaceae The Valerianaceae Batsch, the valerian family, was a family of flowering plants that is now considered part of the Caprifoliaceae. Plants are generally herbaceous, and their foliage often has a strong, disagreeable odor. They are found native in ...

* '' Plectritis congesta'' — pink plectritis * '' Plectritis macrocera'' — white plectritis * '' Valeriana capitata'' — clustered valerian * ''

Valeriana dioica ''Valeriana dioica'', the marsh valerian, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Valeriana ''Valeriana'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae, members of which may by commonly known as valerians. It contains many ...

'' — wood valerian * ''

Valeriana edulis ''Valeriana edulis'', the tobacco root or edible valerian, a species in the family Caprifoliaceae, is a dioecious perennial flowering plant native to western and central North America. Despite its common name, tobacco root is not closely relate ...

'' — hairy valerian * '' Valeriana scouleri'' — Scouler's valerian * '' Valeriana sitchensis'' —

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valerian * '' Valeriana uliginosa'' — marsh valerian * '' Valerianella chenopodiifolia'' — goosefoot cornsalad * '' Valerianella umbilicata'' — navel-shape cornsalad

Verbenaceae The Verbenaceae ( ), the verbena family or vervain family, is a family of mainly tropical flowering plants. It contains trees, shrubs, and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell. The ...

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Glandularia bipinnatifida ''Glandularia bipinnatifida'', commonly called Dakota mock vervain, prairie verbena, and Moradilla, among others, is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family (Verbenaceae). It is native to the North America, where its natural range ext ...

'' — Dakota vervain * ''

Phryma leptostachya ''Phryma leptostachya'', or lopseed, is a perennial herb of the genus ''Phryma''. When distinguished from '' Phryma oblongifolia'' and '' Phryma nana'', it is native to eastern North America. The plant stands about 0.3 to 1.0 meters tall, and ...

'' — American lopseed * ''

Phyla lanceolata ''Phyla lanceolata'' is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family known by the common names lanceleaf fogfruit, fogfruit, or frogfruit. It is native to the southern half of North America, including much of the United States except for t ...

'' — fog-fruit * '' Verbena bracteata'' — largebract vervain * ''

Verbena hastata ''Verbena hastata'', commonly known as American vervain, blue vervain, simpler's joy, or swamp verbena, is a perennial flowering plant in the vervain family Verbenaceae. It grows throughout the continental United States and in much of southern ...

'' — blue vervain * '' Verbena simplex'' — narrowleaf vervain * ''

Verbena stricta ''Verbena stricta'', also known as hoary verbena or hoary vervain, is a small purple wildflower native to a large region of the central United States. Region ''Verbena stricta'' is native to Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dako ...

'' — hoary vervain * ''

Verbena urticifolia ''Verbena urticifolia'', known as nettle-leaved vervain or white vervain, is a herbaceous plant in the vervain family (Verbenaceae). It belongs to the "true" vervains of genus ''Verbena''. Description White vervain has opposite, simple leave ...

'' — white vervain * '' Verbena x deamii'' * '' Verbena x engelmannii'' * '' Verbena x perriana'' * '' Verbena x rydbergii''

Violaceae Violaceae is a family of flowering plants established in 1802, consisting of about 1000 species in about 25 genera. It takes its name from the genus ''Viola'', the violets and pansies. Older classifications such as the Cronquist system placed t ...

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Hybanthus concolor ''Hybanthus concolor'', commonly known as eastern green violet,''Hybanthus conc ...

'' — green violet * ''

Viola adunca ''Viola adunca'' is a species of violet known by the common names hookedspur violet, early blue violet, sand violet, and western dog violet. It is native to meadows and forests of western North America, Canada, and the northern contiguous United ...

'' — sand violet * '' Viola affinis'' — Le Conte's violet * '' Viola bicolor'' — field pansy * ''

Viola biflora ''Viola biflora'' is a species of the genus ''Viola ; german: Bratsche , alt=Viola shown from the front and the side , image=Bratsche.jpg , caption= , background=string , hornbostel_sachs=321.322-71 , hornbostel_sachs_desc=Composite chordoph ...

'' — northern violet * '' Viola blanda'' — smooth white violet * ''

Viola canadensis ''Viola canadensis'' is a flowering plant in the Violaceae family. It is commonly known as Canadian white violet, Canada violet, tall white violet, or white violet. It is widespread across much of Canada and the United States, from Alaska to Newf ...

'' — Canada violet * '' Viola conspersa'' — American bog violet * ''

Viola cucullata ''Viola cucullata'', the hooded blue violet, marsh blue violet or purple violet, is a species of the genus ''Viola'' native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to Georgia. It is a recipient of the ...

'' — marsh blue violet * '' Viola epipsila'' — northern marsh violet * '' Viola glabella'' — smooth yellow woodland violet * '' Viola howellii'' — Howell's violet * ''

Viola labradorica ''Viola labradorica'', commonly known as alpine violet, American dog violet, dog violet or Labrador violet, is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant. It is native to Greenland, eastern Canada, and the eastern United States The United S ...

'' — Labrador violet * '' Viola lanceolata'' — lanceleaf violet * '' Viola langsdorffii'' — Aleutian violet * '' Viola macloskeyi'' — smooth white violet * '' Viola missouriensis'' — Missouri violet * ''

Viola nephrophylla ''Viola nephrophylla'' (northern bog violet, Leconte violet, or kidney leaved violet) syn. ''Viola nephrophylla'' Greene f. ''albinea'' (Farw.), ''Viola pratincola'' Greene, ''Viola retusa'' Greene ) is an annual or perennial forb in the Violet ...

'' — northern bog violet * '' Viola novae-angliae'' — New England violet * ''

Viola nuttallii ''Viola nuttallii'' (Nuttall's violet or yellow prairie violet) is a perennial herbaceous plant in the violet family (''Violaceae''), and is one of the few violet species with lanceolate leaves. It is native to the western Canada and the north-c ...

'' — Nuttall's violet * '' Viola orbiculata'' — western rough-leaved violet * ''

Viola palustris ''Viola palustris'' (marsh violet, or alpine marsh violet) is a perennial forb of the genus ''Viola''. It inhabits moist meadows, marshes, and stream banks in northern parts of North America and Eurasia. The species epithet ''palustris'' is Latin ...

'' — alpine marsh violet * ''

Viola pedata ''Viola pedata'', the birdsfoot violet, bird's-foot violet, or mountain pansy, is a violet native to sandy areas in central and eastern North America. Varieties Two primary color forms exist, ''Viola pedata'' var. ''lineariloba'' ("concolor"), ...

'' — bird's-foot violet * '' Viola pedatifida'' — prairie violet * '' Viola praemorsa'' — upland yellow violet * '' Viola primulifolia'' — primrose-leaf violet * '' Viola pubescens'' — downy yellow violet * ''

Viola purpurea ''Viola purpurea'' is a species of violet with yellow flowers and the common name goosefoot violet. Habitat and Range ''Viola purpurea'' grows in foothills and mountains across much the western United States, including the Cascade Mountains, t ...

'' — pine violet * '' Viola renifolia'' — kidneyleaf white violet * '' Viola rostrata'' — longspur violet * ''

Viola rotundifolia ''Viola rotundifolia'', common name roundleaf yellow violet, is a plant species of the genus ''Viola''. It is found in mesic habitat areas of the eastern United States and Canada; from Tennessee and Kentucky south to Georgia Georgia most common ...

'' — roundleaf violet * '' Viola sagittata'' — arrowleaf violet * ''

Viola selkirkii ''Viola selkirkii'' is a species of violet known by the common names Selkirk's violet and great-spur violet. It is native throughout the Northern Hemisphere, its distribution circumboreal.Viola sempervirens'' — redwood violet * '' Viola septentrionalis'' — northern blue violet * ''

Viola sororia ''Viola sororia'', known commonly as the common blue violet, is a short-stemmed herbaceous perennial plant that is native to eastern North America. It is known by a number of common names, including common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly b ...

'' — woolly blue violet * '' Viola striata'' — striped violet * '' Viola triloba'' — three-lobed violet * '' Viola vallicola'' — valley violet * '' Viola x bissellii'' * '' Viola x brauniae'' * '' Viola x conjugens'' * '' Viola x eclipes'' * '' Viola x filicetorum'' * '' Viola x malteana'' * '' Viola x melissifolia'' * '' Viola x palmata'' — early blue violet * '' Viola x parca'' * '' Viola x populifolia'' * '' Viola x porteriana'' — Stone's violet * '' Viola x primulifolia'' — primrose-leaf violet * '' Viola x sublanceolata''

Viscaceae Viscaceae is a taxonomic family name of flowering plants. In this circumscription, the family includes the several genera of mistletoes. This family name is currently being studied and under review as in past decades, several systems of plant tax ...

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Arceuthobium americanum ''Arceuthobium americanum'' is a species of dwarf mistletoe known as American dwarf mistletoe and lodgepole-pine dwarf mistletoe. It is a common plant of western North America where it lives in high elevation pine forests. It is a parasitic plant ...

'' — American mistletoe * '' Arceuthobium campylopodum'' — western dwarf-mistletoe * ''

Arceuthobium douglasii ''Arceuthobium douglasii'' is a species of Arceuthobium, dwarf mistletoe known as Douglas fir dwarf mistletoe. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Texas to California, where it lives in forest and woodland as a parasiti ...

'' — Douglas-fir dwarf-mistletoe * '' Arceuthobium laricis'' — larch dwarf-mistletoe * '' Arceuthobium pusillum'' — dwarf mistletoe * ''

Arceuthobium tsugense The genus ''Arceuthobium'', commonly called dwarf mistletoes, is a genus of 26 species of parasitic plants that parasitize members of Pinaceae and Cupressaceae in North America, Central America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Of the 42 species tha ...

'' — hemlock dwarf-mistletoe

Vitaceae The Vitaceae are a family of flowering plants, with 14 genera and around 910 known species, including common plants such as grapevines (''Vitis'' spp.) and Virginia creeper (''Parthenocissus quinquefolia''). The family name is derived from the ge ...

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Parthenocissus quinquefolia ''Parthenocissus quinquefolia'', known as Virginia creeper, Victoria creeper, five-leaved ivy, or five-finger, is a species of flowering vine in the grape family, Vitaceae. It is native to eastern and central North America, from southeastern C ...

'' — Virginia creeper * ''

Parthenocissus vitacea ''Parthenocissus inserta'' ( syn. ''Parthenocissus vitacea''), also known as thicket creeper, false Virginia creeper, woodbine, or grape woodbine, is a woody vine native to North America, in southeastern Canada (west to southern Manitoba) and a ...

'' — woodbine * ''

Vitis aestivalis ''Vitis aestivalis'', the summer grape, or pigeon grape is a species of Vitis, grape native to eastern North America from southern Ontario east to Maine, west to Oklahoma, and south to Florida and Texas. It is a vigorous vine, growing to 10 m or ...

'' — summer grape * ''

Vitis labrusca ''Vitis labrusca'', the fox grape, is a species of grapevines belonging to the ''Vitis'' genus in the flowering plant family Vitaceae. The vines are native to eastern North America and are the source of many grape cultivars, including Catawba, Co ...

'' — northern fox grape * ''

Vitis riparia ''Vitis riparia'' Michx, with common names riverbank grape or frost grape, is a vine indigenous to North America. As a climbing or trailing vine, it is widely distributed across central and eastern Canada and the central and northeastern parts ...

'' — riverbank grape * ''

Vitis vulpina ''Vitis vulpina'' (with common names frost grape, winter grape, fox grape, and wild grape.) is a North American species of herbaceous perennial vines in the grape family. It is widespread across most of the eastern and central United States a ...

'' — winter grape

Woodsiaceae ''Woodsia'' is a genus of ferns in the order Polypodiales. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it is the only genus in the family Woodsiaceae, placed in the suborder Aspleniineae. The family can also be treat ...

* '' Athyrium americanum'' — American alpine ladyfern * ''

Athyrium filix-femina ''Athyrium filix-femina'', the lady fern or common lady-fern, is a large, feathery species of fern native to temperate Asia, Europe, North Africa, Canada and the USA. It is often abundant (one of the more common ferns) in damp, shady woodland env ...

'' — lady fern * ''

Cystopteris bulbifera ''Cystopteris bulbifera'', with the common name bulblet fern, bulblet bladderfern, or bulblet fragile fern is a fern in the family Cystopteridaceae. Distribution The fern is native to eastern Canada, the Midwestern and Eastern United States, an ...

'' — bulblet fern * ''

Cystopteris fragilis ''Cystopteris fragilis'' is a species of fern known by the common names brittle bladder-fern and common fragile fern. It can be found worldwide, generally in shady, moist areas. The leaves are up to 30 or 40 centimeters long and are borne on fles ...

'' — fragile fern * ''

Cystopteris laurentiana ''Cystopteris'' is a genus of ferns in the family Cystopteridaceae. These are known generally as bladderferns or fragile ferns. They grow in temperate areas worldwide. This is a very diverse genus and within a species individuals can look quite ...

'' — Laurentian bladderfern * ''

Cystopteris montana ''Cystopteris montana,'' previously classified as '' Athyrium montanum'', is a species of fern known by the common name mountain bladderfern. It occurs throughout the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, in Eurasia, Greenland, and Alaska, a ...

'' — mountain bladderfern * ''

Cystopteris protrusa ''Cystopteris protrusa'' is a common fern of North America, commonly known as the lowland bladderfern, lowland brittle fern or lowland fragile fern. The plant is native to eastern Canada, and the Midwestern and Eastern United States. Throughou ...

'' — lowland brittle fern * ''

Cystopteris tenuis ''Cystopteris tenuis'' is sometimes known as Mackay's bladder fern or Mackay's fragile fern. It was long considered to be a part of the superspecies for fragile ferns, as ''Cystopteris fragilis'' ( L.) Bernh. var. ''mackayi'' Lawson. left, ' ...

'' — upland brittle bladderfern * ''

Deparia acrostichoides ''Deparia acrostichoides'', commonly called silvery glade fern or silvery spleenwort, is a perennial species of fern. Its range include much of the eastern United States and Canada, from Ontario to Nova Scotia, and Georgia to Louisiana and easter ...

'' — silver false spleenwort * '' Diplazium pycnocarpon'' — glade fern * ''

Gymnocarpium disjunctum ''Gymnocarpium disjunctum'' is a species of fern in the family Cystopteridaceae, commonly known as Pacific oak fern, Hitchcock, C.L. and Cronquist, A. 2018. Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd Edition, p. 58. University of Washington Press, Seat ...

'' — Pacific oak fern * ''

Gymnocarpium dryopteris ''Gymnocarpium dryopteris'', the western oakfern, common oak fern , oak fern, or northern oak fern, is a deciduous fern of the family Cystopteridaceae. It is widespread across much of North America and Eurasia. It has been found in Canada, the ...

'' — northern oak fern * ''

Gymnocarpium jessoense ''Gymnocarpium'' is a small genus of ferns, called oak ferns. It was once placed with various other groups, including the dryopteroid ferns and the athyrioid ferns. Cladistic analysis has demonstrated that ''Gymnocarpium'' and '' Cystopteris'' ...

'' — northern oak fern * ''

Gymnocarpium robertianum ''Gymnocarpium robertianum'', the limestone fern or scented oakfern, is a fern of the family Cystopteridaceae. Description ''Gymnocarpium robertianum'' has small (10–50 cm), deltate, two- to three-pinnate fronds. Fronds arise from creep ...

'' — limestone oak fern * '' Gymnocarpium x achriosporum'' * '' Gymnocarpium x brittonianum'' * '' Gymnocarpium x intermedium'' * ''

Physematium oreganum ''Physematium oreganum'', the Oregon cliff fern, is a perennial fern in the family Woodsiaceae. This plant is native to a large part of the western and northern United States and Canada. References External linksJepson Manual Treatment ...

'' — western cliff fern * '' Physematium obtusum'' — bluntlobe woodsia * ''

Physematium scopulinum ''Physematium scopulinum'', also called ''Woodsia scopulina'', is a deciduous perennial fern in the family Woodsiaceae, with the common name Rocky Mountain Woodsia,. This plant is native to the western and northern United States and Canada. ''W ...

'' — Rocky Mountain woodsia * '' Woodsia alpina'' — northern woodsia * '' Woodsia glabella'' — smooth woodsia * '' Woodsia ilvensis'' — rusty woodsia * '' Woodsia x abbeae'' * '' Woodsia x gracilis'' * '' Woodsia x maxonii'' * '' Woodsia x tryonis'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Canadian plants by family U-V * Canada,family,U