List Of Canadian Plants By Genus C

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

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

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Ca

* ''Cakile'' — searockets
** ''Cakile edentula'' — American searocket
* ''Calamagrostis'' — reedgrasses
** ''Calamagrostis canadensis'' — Canada bluejoint, Canada reedgrass, Langsdorff's reedgrass, Macoun's reedgrass
** ''Calamagrostis deschampsioides'' — circumpolar reedgrass
** ''Calamagrostis lapponica'' — Lapland reedgrass
** ''Calamagrostis purpurascens'' — purple reedgrass
** ''Calamagrostis stricta'' subsp. ''inexpansa'' — bog reedgrass, northern reedgrass
* ''Calamintha'' — calamints
** ''Calamintha arkansana'' — low calamint, savoury, wild calamint, limestone wild basil
* ''Calamovilfa'' — sandreeds
** ''Calamovilfa longifolia'' var. ''magna'' — prairie sandreed
* ''Calla'' — callas
** ''Calla palustris'' — wild calla, water arum
* ''Callitriche'' — water-starworts
** ''Callitriche hermaphroditica'' — narrowleaf water-starwort, northern water-starwort, autumnal water-starwort
** ''Callitriche heterophylla'' — larger water-starwort
** ''Callitriche palustris'' — vernal water-starwort
* ''Callitropsis'' —
** ''Callitropsis nootkatensis'' — Alaska yellow cedar, Nootka false-cypress, yellow cedar
* ''Calopogon'' — grass-pinks
** ''Calopogon tuberosus'' — tuberous grass-pink
* ''Caltha'' — marsh marigolds
** ''Caltha natans'' — floating marsh marigold
** ''Caltha palustris'' — marsh marigold, cowslip, kingcup, cowflock
* ''Calypso'' — calypsoes
** ''Calypso bulbosa'' — calypso, fairy-slipper, nymph-of-the-north
* ''Calystegia'' — bindweeds
** ''Calystegia sepium'' — hedge bindweed, wild morning glory
** ''Calystegia spithamaea'' — low bindweed
* ''Camassia'' — hyacinths
** ''Camassia scilloides'' — wild hyacinth Threatened
* ''Campanula'' — bellflowers
** ''Campanula aparinoides'' — marsh bellflower, bedstraw bedflower, marsh harebell
** ''Campanula rotundifolia'' — American harebell, Scottish bluebell, bluebells of Scotland
* ''Campanulastrum'' — bellflowers
** ''Campanulastrum americanum'' — tall bellflower, American bellflower
* ''Campsis'' — trumpet vines
** ''Campsis radicans'' — trumpet vine, trumpet creeper
* ''Canadanthus'' —
** ''Canadanthus modestus'' — Canada aster, western bog aster, great northern aster, purple northern aster
* ''Cardamine'' — toothworts
** ''Cardamine bulbosa'' — spring cress, bulbous cress
** ''Cardamine concatenata'' — cutleaf toothwort, five-parted toothwort, slender toothwort
** ''Cardamine diphylla'' — twoleaf toothwort, broadleaf toothwort, crinkleroot
** ''Cardamine douglasii'' — purple cress, limestone bittercress
** ''Cardamine parviflora'' — small-flowered bittercress, sand bittercress
** ''Cardamine pensylvanica'' — Pennsylvania bittercress, Quaker bittercress
** ''Cardamine pratensis'' var. ''angustifolia'' — meadow bittercress
** ''Cardamine pratensis'' var. ''palustris'' — cuckoo-flower, lady's smock
* ''Carex'' spp.''
** see List of Carex species in Canada
* ''Carpinus'' — hornbeams
** ''Carpinus caroliniana'' — ironwood, American hornbeam, blue beech, musclewood
* ''Carya'' — hickories
** ''Carya cordiformis'' — bitternut hickory, swamp hickory, pignut hickory, yellowbud hickory
** ''Carya glabra'' — pignut hickory, sweet pignut, red hickory
** ''Carya laciniosa'' — big shellbark hickory
** ''Carya ovata'' — shagbark hickory, upland hickory, shellbark hickory

* ''Castanea'' — chestnuts
** ''Castanea dentata'' — American chestnut, toothed chestnut Endangered
* ''Castilleja'' — Indian paintbrushes
** ''Castilleja coccinea'' — scarlet Indian paintbrush, scarlet painted-cup
** ''Castilleja raupii'' — Raup's painted-cup, Raup's Indian paintbrush
** ''Castilleja septentrionalis'' — northern paintbrush, Labrador Indian paintbrush
* ''Catabrosa'' — brook grasses
** ''Catabrosa aquatica'' — brook grass, water hairgrass
* ''Caulophyllum'' — cohoshes
** ''Caulophyllum giganteum''
** ''Caulophyllum thalictroides'' — blue cohosh

Ce

* ''Ceanothus'' — New Jersey teas
** ''Ceanothus americanus'' — New Jersey tea, redroot, white snowball, mountainsweet
** ''Ceanothus herbaceus'' — narrowleaf New Jersey tea, prairie redroot, inland ceanothus
* ''Celastrus'' — bittersweets
** ''Celastrus scandens'' — climbing bittersweet, American bittersweet
* ''Celtis'' — hackberries
** ''Celtis occidentalis'' — sugarberry, northern hackberry, false elm, common hackberry
** ''Celtis tenuifolia'' — dwarf hackberry Threatened
* ''Cenchrus'' — sandbars
** ''Cenchrus longispinus'' — longspine sandbur
* ''Cephalanthus'' — buttonbushes
** ''Cephalanthus occidentalis'' — common buttonbush
* ''Cerastium'' — mouse-ear chickweeds
** ''Cerastium alpinum'' — alpine mouse-ear chickweed, alpine chickweed, woolly alpine chickweed
** ''Cerastium arvense'' subsp. ''strictum'' — field mouse-ear chickweed, meadow mouse-ear chickweed, prairie mouse-ear chickweed (other subspecies, including the type subsp. ''arvense'', are considered introduced)
** ''Cerastium brachypodum'' — shortstalk mouse-ear chickweed
** ''Cerastium nutans'' — nodding mouse-ear chickweed
** ''Cerastium velutinum'' — long-hairy chickweed
* ''Ceratophyllum'' — hornworts
** ''Ceratophyllum demersum'' — common hornwort, coontail
** ''Ceratophyllum echinatum'' — spineless hornwort

Ch

* ''Chaerophyllum'' — chervils
** ''Chaerophyllum procumbens'' var. ''procumbens'' — spreading chervil
** ''Chaerophyllum procumbens'' var. ''shortii''
* ''Chamaedaphne'' — leatherleafs
** ''Chamaedaphne calyculata'' — leatherleaf, dwarf cassandra
* ''Chamaesyce'' — spurges
** ''Chamaesyce polygonifolia'' — seaside spurge, seaside sandmat, sea milk-purslane
** ''Chamaesyce vermiculata'' — wormseed spurge, wormseed sandmat, hairy spurge, hairy-stemmed milk-purslane
* ''Chelone'' — turtleheads
** ''Chelone glabra'' — white turtlehead
* ''Chenopodium'' — goosefeet
** ''Chenopodium bushianum'' — village goosefoot
** ''Chenopodium capitatum'' — strawberry blite, strawberry-spinach, Indian paint, Indian ink, strawberry goosefoot
** ''Chenopodium foggii'' — Fogg's goosefoot
** ''Chenopodium leptophyllum'' — narrowleaf goosefoot
** ''Chenopodium pratericola'' — pale goosefoot, narrowleaf goosefoot, desert goosefoot
** ''Chenopodium salinum''
** ''Chenopodium simplex'' — mapleleaf goosefoot, giantseed goosefoot
** ''Chenopodium standleyanum'' — Standley's goosefoot
* ''Chimaphila'' — pipsissewas
** ''Chimaphila maculata'' — striped pipsissewa, striped wintergreen, spotted wintergreen, striped prince's pine Endangered
** ''Chimaphila umbellata'' — pipsissewa, prince's pine
* ''Chrysanthemum'' — daisies
** ''Chrysanthemum arcticum'' — arctic daisy
* ''Chrysosplenium'' — saxifrages
** ''Chrysosplenium americanum'' — golden saxifrage, American watermat, American golden saxifrage
** ''Chrysosplenium tetrandrum'' — alternate-leaf watermat, northern golden saxifrage, northern golden-carpet

Ci

* ''Cicuta'' — water hemlocks
** ''Cicuta bulbifera'' — bulb-bearing water hemlock
** ''Cicuta maculata'' — spotted water hemlock, spotted cowbane, musquash-root, beaver-poison
** ''Cicuta virosa'' — MacKenzie's water hemlock, northern water hemlock
* ''Cimicifuga'' — cohoshes
** ''Cimicifuga racemosa'' — black cohosh, black snakeroot, black bugbane
* ''Cinna'' — wood reedgrasses
** ''Cinna arundinacea'' — stout wood reedgrass
** ''Cinna latifolia'' — slender wood reedgrass, drooping woodreed, broadleaf woodgrass
* ''Circaea'' — enchanter's nightshades
** ''Circaea alpina'' — dwarf enchanter's nightshade, small enchanter's nightshade
** ''Circaea lutetiana'' — Canada enchanter's nightshade, southern broadleaf enchanter's nightshade
* ''Cirsium'' — thistles
** ''Cirsium discolor'' — pasture thistle, field thistle
** ''Cirsium drummondii'' — Drummond's thistle, short-stem thistle, dwarf thistle
** ''Cirsium flodmanii'' — prairie thistle, woolly thistle, Flodman's thistle
** ''Cirsium hillii'' — Hill's thistle Threatened
** ''Cirsium muticum'' — swamp thistle, dunce nettle, horsetops
** ''Cirsium pitcheri'' — Pitcher's thistle, sand dune thistle

Cl

* ''Cladium'' — twigrushes
** ''Cladium mariscoides'' — twigrush, smooth sawgrass
* ''Claytonia'' — spring beauties
** ''Claytonia caroliniana'' — Carolina spring beauty
** ''Claytonia virginica'' — eastern spring beauty, narrowleaf spring beauty, Virginia spring beauty
* ''Clematis'' — virgin's-bowers
** ''Clematis occidentalis'' — western blue virgin's-bower, purple clematis, rock clematis, purple virgin's-bower
** ''Clematis virginiana'' — Virginia virgin's-bower, Devil's darning-needles
* ''Clinopodium'' — dog mints
** ''Clinopodium vulgare'' — dog mint, wild basil, cushion calamint
* ''Clintonia'' — blue-bead lilies
** ''Clintonia borealis'' — blue-bead lily, cornlily, poisonberry, yellow clintonia

Co

* ''Coeloglossum'' — green orchises
** ''Coeloglossum viride'' var. ''viriscens'' — long-bract green orchis
** ''Coeloglossum viride'' var. ''viride'' — bracted orchid
* ''Collinsia'' — horsebalms
** ''Collinsia canadensis'' — Canada horsebalm, northern horsebalm, stoneroot, richweed
** ''Collinsia parviflora'' — bluelips, small blue-eyed Mary
* ''Collomia'' — glueseeds
** ''Collomia linearis'' — glueseed, narrowleaf collomia
* ''Comandra'' — comandras
** ''Comandra umbellata'' — bastard toadflax, star toadflax
* ''Comptonia'' — sweetferns
** ''Comptonia peregrina'' — sweetfern
* ''Conioselinum'' — hemlock parsleys
** ''Conioselinum chinense'' — hemlock parsley
* ''Conopholis''— squawroots
** ''Conopholis americana'' — squawroot
* ''Conyza'' — fleabanes
** ''Conyza canadensis'' — Canada fleabane, horseweed, butterweed
* ''Coptis'' — goldthreads
** ''Coptis trifolia'' — goldthread, canker-root, yellow snakeroot
* ''Corallorrhiza'' — coralroots
** ''Corallorrhiza maculata'' — spotted coralroot
** ''Corallorhiza odontorhiza'' — autumn coralroot
** ''Corallorrhiza striata'' — striped coralroot
** ''Corallorrhiza trifida'' — early coralroot, pale coralroot, northern coralroot
* ''Coreopsis'' — tickseeds
** ''Coreopsis lanceolata'' — lanceleaf tickseed, garden coreopsis, long-stalked coreopsis
** ''Coreopsis tripteris'' — tall coreopsis
* ''Corispermum'' — bugseeds
** ''Corispermum americanum'' — American bugseed
** ''Corispermum hookeri'' — Hooker's bugseed
** ''Corispermum pallasii'' — Pallas' bugseed
** ''Corispermum villosum'' — hairy bugseed
* ''Cornus'' — dogwoods
** ''Cornus alternifolia'' — alternate-leaf dogwood, pagoda dogwood, green osier
** ''Cornus amomum'' subsp. ''amomum'' — silky dogwood, red willow, swamp dogwood
** ''Cornus amomum'' subsp. ''obliqua''
** ''Cornus canadensis'' — Canada bunchberry, crackerberry, dwarf cornel
** ''Cornus drummondii'' — roughleaf dogwood, Drummond's dogwood
** ''Cornus florida'' — eastern flowering dogwood, common white dogwood
** ''Cornus foemina'' — stiff dogwood, English dogwood, stiff cornel
** ''Cornus rugosa'' — roundleaf dogwood
** ''Cornus stolonifera'' — red-osier dogwood
* ''Corydalis'' — corydalises
** ''Corydalis aurea'' — golden corydalis
** ''Corydalis flavula'' — yellow corydalis
** ''Corydalis sempervirens'' — pale corydalis
* ''Corylus'' — hazelnuts
** ''Corylus americana'' — American hazelnut, American filbert
** ''Corylus cornuta'' — beaked hazelnut, beaked filbert

Cr

* ''Crassula'' — pygmyweeds
** ''Crassula aquatica'' — water pygmyweed
* ''Crataegus'' — hawthorns
** ''Crataegus apiomorpha''
** ''Crataegus beata''
** ''Crataegus brainerdii'' — Brainerd's hawthorn
** ''Crataegus calpodendron'' — pear hawthorn
** ''Crataegus chrysocarpa'' var. ''aboriginum''
** ''Crataegus chrysocarpa'' var. ''chrysocarpa'' — fireberry hawthorn, roundleaf hawthorn
** ''Crataegus chrysocarpa'' var. ''phoenicea''
** ''Crataegus coccinea'' var. ''coccinea'' — scarlet hawthorn
** ''Crataegus coccinea'' var. ''fulleriana'' — Fuller's hawthorn
** ''Crataegus cognata'' — white-anthered frosted hawthorn
** ''Crataegus comptacta''
** ''Crataegus crus-galli'' — cockspur hawthorn
** ''Crataegus dilatata'' — broadleaf hawthorn
** ''Crataegus dissona''
** ''Crataegus dodgei'' var. ''dodgei'' — Dodge's hawthorn
** ''Crataegus dodgei'' var. ''flavida''
** ''Crataegus douglasii'' — black hawthorn, Douglas' hawthorn
** ''Crataegus flabellata'' — fanleaf hawthorn, Bosc's thorn, New England hawthorn
** ''Crataegus formosa''
** ''Crataegus irrasa'' — unshorn thorn, Blanchard's thorn
** ''Crataegus lumaria''
** ''Crataegus macracantha'' — longthorn hawthorn, largethorn hawthorn
** ''Crataegus macrosperma'' — bigfruit hawthorn, variable thorn
** ''Crataegus magniflora''
** ''Crataegus margeretta''
** ''Crataegus mollis'' — downy hawthorn, red haw
** ''Crataegus pennsylvanica''
** ''Crataegus perjucunda'' — Middlesex frosted hawthorn
** ''Crataegus persimilis'' — plumleaf hawthorn
** ''Crataegus populnea''
** ''Crataegus pringlei'' — Pringle's hawthorn
** ''Crataegus pruinosa'' var. ''parvula''
** ''Crataegus pruinosa'' var. ''pruinosa'' — waxy-fruit hawthorn, frosted hawthorn
** ''Crataegus punctata'' — dotted hawthorn
** ''Crataegus rugosa'' — broadleaf frosted hawthorn
** ''Crataegus scabrida''
** ''Crataegus schuettei'' — royal hawthorn
** ''Crataegus submollis'' — Québec hawthorn, Emerson's hawthorn
** ''Crataegus suborbiculata'' — Caughuawaga hawthorn
** ''Crataegus succulenta'' — fleshy hawthorn, longspine hawthorn
** ''Crataegus tenax''
* ''Cryptogramma'' — rockbrakes
** ''Cryptogramma acrostichoides'' — American rockbrake, parsleyfern, mountain parsley
** ''Cryptogramma stelleri'' — Steller's rockbrake, slender cliffbrake, fragile rockbrake
* ''Cryptotaenia'' — honeworts
** ''Cryptotaenia canadensis'' — Canada honewort

Cu

* ''Cuscuta'' — dodders
** ''Cuscuta campestris'' — field dodder
** ''Cuscuta cephalanthi'' — buttonbush dodder
** ''Cuscuta coryli'' — hazel dodder
** ''Cuscuta gronovii'' — common dodder, scaldweed, swamp dodder, Gronovius dodder

Cy

* '' Cycloloma'' — pigweeds
** ''Cycloloma atriplicifolium'' — winged pigweed
* ''Cynoglossum'' — comfreys
** ''Cynoglossum boreale'' — northern wild comfrey
* ''Cyperus'' — flatsedges
** ''Cyperus bipartitus'' — river cyperus, shining flatsedge
** ''Cyperus dentatus'' — toothed umbrella-sedge
** ''Cyperus diandrus'' — umbrella sedge
** ''Cyperus erythrorhizos'' — redroot flatsedge
** ''Cyperus esculentus'' — yellow nutgrass, yellow umbrella sedge, chufa flatsedge
** ''Cyperus flavescens'' — yellow cyperus
** ''Cyperus houghtonii'' — Houghton's flatsedge, Houghton's cyperus
** ''Cyperus lupulinus'' subsp. ''macilentus''
** ''Cyperus odoratus'' — rusty flatsedge
** ''Cyperus schweinitzii'' — Schweinitz' umbrella sedge, Schweinitz' flatsedge
** ''Cyperus squarrosus'' — awned cyperus
** ''Cyperus strigosus'' — straw-coloured flatsedge
* ''Cypripedium'' — lady's-slippers
** ''Cypripedium acaule'' — pink lady's-slipper, pink moccasin flower
** ''Cypripedium arietinum'' — ram's-head lady's-slipper
** ''Cypripedium candidum'' — small white lady's-slipper Endangered
** ''Cypripedium parviflorum'' var. ''makasin'' — northern small-flowered yellow lady's-slipper
** ''Cypripedium parviflorum'' var. ''pubescens'' — large yellow lady's-slipper, yellow moccasin flower, flat-petalled yellow lady's-slipper, golden slipper, whip-poor-will's shoe
** ''Cypripedium passerinum'' — sparrow's-egg lady's-slipper, Franklin's lady's-slipper
** ''Cypripedium reginae'' — showy lady's-slipper, queen lady's-slipper
* ''Cystopteris'' —
** ''Cystopteris bulbifera'' — bulblet bladder fern
** ''Cystopteris fragilis'' — fragile fern, brittle bladder fern
** ''Cystopteris laurentiana'' — Laurentian bladder fern, Laurentian fragile fern
** ''Cystopteris montana'' — mountain bladder fern
** ''Cystopteris protrusa'' — lowland brittle fern
** ''Cystopteris tenuis'' — MacKay's brittle fern

References

''See:'' Flora of Canada#References

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