List of Canadian plants by genus explained
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 by 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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Ab
Ac
- Acalypha
- Acanthospermum
- Acer
- X Acer campestre – hedge maple, field maple
- X Acer ginnala – Amur maple, ginnala maple
- N Acer negundo – Manitoba maple, box-elder, ashleaf maple
- N Acer nigrum – black maple, black sugar maple, rock maple
- N Acer pensylvanicum – striped maple, moose maple, goosefoot maple
- X Acer platanoides – Norway maple, Schwedler maple, crimson king maple
- X Acer pseudoplatanus – sycamore maple, Scottish maple, great maple
- N Acer rubrum – red maple, swamp maple, scarlet maple
- N Acer saccharinum – silver maple, soft maple, white maple, silverleaf maple, river maple
- N Acer saccharum – sugar maple, hard maple
- N Acer spicatum – mountain maple
- N Acer × freemanii (A. rubrum × A. saccharinum) – Freeman's maple
- Achillea
- Aconitum
- X Aconitum napellus – garden monk's-hood, helmet flower, Venus' chariot, aconite
- X Aconitum variegatum – Manchurian monk's-hood
- X Aconitum × bicolor (A. napellus × A. variegatum) – hybrid monk's-hood, two-coloured wolf's-bane
- Acorus
- Acroptilon
- Actaea
- N Actaea pachypoda – white baneberry, doll's-eyes
- N Actaea rubra – red baneberry
- N Actaea × ludovici (A. pachypoda × A. rubra) – hybrid baneberry
Ad
Ae
Ag
Endangered
Endangered -
- Agastache
- Agoseris
- N Agoseris glauca – pale false-dandelion, prairie agoseris, pale agoseris, pale goat-chicory, large-flowered false-dandelion
- Agrimonia
- Agropyron
- Agrostemma
- Agrostis
- ? Agrostis canina – brown bentgrass
- X Agrostis capillaris – colonial bentgrass, browntop, Prince Edward Island bentgrass, Rhode Island bentgrass
- X Agrostis gigantea – black bentgrass, redtop
- N Agrostis hyemalis – winter bentgrass, ticklegrass
- N Agrostis mertensii – northern bentgrass
- N Agrostis perennans – upland bentgrass, perennial bentgrass
- N Agrostis scabra – rough bentgrass, tickle grass, rough hairgrass, twin bentgrass
- N Agrostis stolonifera – creeping bentgrass, spreading bentgrass
Ai
Aj
Al
Threatened - Alisma
- Alliaria
- Allium
- Alnus
- X Alnus glutinosa – black alder, European alder
- N Alnus incana – grey alder, white alder, hoary alder, speckled alder
- N Alnus viridis – green alder, mountain alder, American green alder, Siberian alder, Sitka alder
- Alopecurus
- Althaea
- Alyssum
- X Alyssum alyssoides – pale alyssum, small alyssum, yellow alyssum, pale madwort
- X Alyssum murale – yellow-tuft
Am
- Amaranthus
- X Amaranthus albus – white tumbleweed, tumble pigweed, tumbleweed amaranth
- X Amaranthus blitoides – prostrate amaranth, prostrate pigweed, matweed
- X Amaranthus blitum – purple amaranth
- X Amaranthus cruentus – blood amaranth, purple amaranth, red amaranth, caterpillar amaranth, African spinach
- X Amaranthus hybridus – smooth amaranth, hybrid amaranth, green pigweed, smooth pigweed, green amaranth
- X Amaranthus palmeri – Palmer's amaranth
- X Amaranthus powellii – green amaranth, Powell's smooth amaranth
- X Amaranthus retroflexus – redroot amaranth, redroot pigweed, wild-beet amaranth, rough pigweed
- X Amaranthus spinosus – spiny amaranth
- N Amaranthus tuberculatus – roughfruit amaranth, roughfruit waterhemp, tall waterhemp, tall pigweed
- Ambrosia
- Amelanchier
- N Amelanchier alnifolia – Saskatoonberry, northwestern serviceberry
- N Amelanchier arborea – downy serviceberry, downy juneberry, common serviceberry
- N Amelanchier bartramiana – mountain juneberry, Bartram's shadbush, Bartram's chuckleypear
- N Amelanchier canadensis – Canada serviceberry, swamp shadbush, thicket serviceberry
- N Amelanchier humilis – low serviceberry, running serviceberry
- N Amelanchier laevis – smooth juneberry, Allegheny serviceberry, smooth chuckleypear
- N Amelanchier sanguinea var. gaspensis – Gaspé roundleaf juneberry
- N Amelanchier sanguinea var. sanguinea – roundleaf juneberry, roundleaf serviceberry, Fernald's chuckleypear
- N Amelanchier stolonifera – running serviceberry, running juneberry, running chuckleypear
- N Amelanchier × intermedia (A. arborea × A. canadensis) – swamp sugarpear
- N Amelanchier × neglecta (A. bartramiana × A. laevis) – hybrid juneberry
- N Amelanchier × quinti-martii (A. arborea × A. bartramiana) – Quint-mart's serviceberry
- N Amelanchier × wiegandii (A. arborea × A. sanguinea) – Wiegand's serviceberry
- Amerorchis
- Ammannia
Endangered
An
- Anagallis
- Anaphalis
- Anchusa
- Andromeda
- N Andromeda glaucophylla – bog rosemary, rosemary-leaf marsh andromeda
- N Andromeda polifolia var. jamesiana – James Bay bog rosemary
- N Andromeda polifolia var. polifolia – northern bog rosemary, marsh holyrose
- Andropogon
- Androsace
- Anemone
- N Anemone acutiloba – sharp-lobed hepatica, sharp-lobed liverleaf
- N Anemone americana – round-lobed hepatica, American liverleaf
- X Anemone blanda
- N Anemone canadensis – Canada anemone, roundleaf thimbleweed
- N Anemone cylindrica – long-fruited anemone, thimbleweed, candle anemone, long-headed anemone
- N Anemone multifida – cutleaf anemone, cliff anemone, early anemone
- N Anemone parviflora – northern anemone, small-flowered anemone
- N Anemone patens – pasqueflower, prairie smoke, prairie crocus, cutleaf anemone
- N Anemone quinquefolia – wood anemone, snow-drops
- N Anemone richardsonii – Richardson's anemone, yellow anemone
- N Anemone virginiana – tall thimbleweed, riverbank anemone
- Anethum
- Angelica
- Anoda
- Antennaria
- Anthemis
- Anthoxanthum
- Anthriscus
- Anthyllis
- Antirrhinum
Ap
Aq
Ar
- Arabidopsis
- Arabis
- N Arabis alpina subsp. alpina – alpine rockcress
- X Arabis alpina subsp. caucasica – wall rockcress, grey rockcress
- N Arabis arenicola var. arenicola – arctic rockcress
- N Arabis arenicola var. pubescens – sand rockcress
- N Arabis canadensis – sicklepod
- N Arabis divaricarpa – limestone rockcress
- N Arabis drummondii – Drummond rockcress
- N Arabis glabra – tower-mustard
- N Arabis hirsuta var. adpressipilis – hairy rockcress, creamflower rockcress
- N Arabis hirsuta var. pycnocarpa – creamflower rockcress
- N Arabis holboelli var. retrofracta – Holboell's rockcress
- N Arabis holboelli var. secunda – bristly-leaved rockcress
- ? Arabis kamchatica – lyreleaf rockcress (species status disputed)
- N Arabis laevigata – smooth rockcress
- N Arabis lyrata – lyreleaf rockcress
- N Arabis shortii – Short's rockcress
- Aralia
- X Aralia elata – Japanese Angelica-tree, Chinese Angelica-tree
- N Aralia hispida – bristly spikenard, bristly sarsaparilla, dwarf elder
- N Aralia nudicaulis – wild sarsaparilla, small spikenard
- N Aralia racemosa – American spikenard, Indian-root, life-of-man, petty morel
- X Aralia spinosa – Hercules' club, Devil's walkingstick, prickly ash, Angelica tree, toothache tree
- Arceuthobium
- Arctagrostis
- Arctium
- Arctophila
- Arctostaphylos
- Arenaria
- Arethusa
- Argemone
- Arisaema
Special Concern
Endangered
Special Concern - Aronia
- Arrhenatherum
- Artemisia
- X Artemisia abrotanum – southern wormwood, southernwood, lad's love, oldman
- X Artemisia absinthium – common wormwood, absinthe, absinthe wormwood, European wormwood
- X Artemisia annua – sweet sagewort, annual wormwood, sweet Annie, sweet wormwood, annual mugwort
- X Artemisia biennis – biennial wormwood
- N Artemisia campestris subsp. borealis – boreal wormwood, Canada wormwood
- N Artemisia campestris subsp. caudata – tall wormwood, beach wormwood, wild wormwood, threadleaf sagewort, sagewort wormwood
- N Artemisia dracunculus – wild tarragon, dragon wormwood, dragon sagewort, false tarragon, French tarragon, Russian tarragon
- N Artemisia frigida – fringed sagebrush, prairie sagebrush, fringed sagewort, prairie sagewort, wormwood sage, pasture sage, arctic sagebrush
- N Artemisia ludoviciana – white sage, silver wormwood, prairie sage, western mugwort, darkleaf mugwort, cudweed sagewort, pasture sage, Louisiana wormwood, Louisiana sage, silver king artemisia, white wormwood, white sagebrush
- X Artemisia pontica – Roman wormwood, petite wormwood, green ginger
- X Artemisia stelleriana – hoary sagebrush, dusty miller, beach wormwood, old woman
- N Artemisia tilesii – Tilesius' wormwood, mountain sagewort, oldwoman
- X Artemisia vulgaris – common mugwort, common wormwood
- Aruncus
As
- Asarum
- Asclepias
- N Asclepias exaltata – poke milkweed, tall milkweed, four-leaved milkweed
- N Asclepias hirtella – tall green milkweed
- N Asclepias incarnata – swamp milkweed
- N Asclepias ovalifolia – oval-leaf milkweed, dwarf milkweed
- N Asclepias purpurascens – purple milkweed
- N Asclepias quadrifolia – four-leaved milkweed
- N Asclepias sullivantii – Sullivant's milkweed
- N Asclepias syriaca – common milkweed, silkweed, silky swallow-wort
- N Asclepias tuberosa – butterfly weed, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, chigger flower
- ? Asclepias variegata – white milkweed
- N Asclepias verticillata – whorled milkweed
- N Asclepias viridiflora – green milkweed, green comet milkweed, short green milkweed
- Asimina
- Asparagus
- Asperugo
- Asperula
- Asplenium
Special Concern
At
- Athyrium
- N Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum – northern lady fern
- N Athyrium filix-femina var. cyclosorum – northwestern lady fern
- Atriplex
- N Atriplex dioica – thickleaf orache, saline saltbush
- N Atriplex glabriuscula – smooth orache, Scotland orache, glabrous orache, northeastern saltbush
- X Atriplex heterosperma – two-scale orache
- X Atriplex hortensis – garden orache
- X Atriplex oblongifolia – oblong-leaf orache
- N Atriplex patula – spear orache, spreading orache, spearscale, halberdleaf orache, common orache
- N Atriplex prostrata – thinleaf orache, triangle orache, fat-hen
- X Atriplex rosea – tumbling orache
Au
Av
Ax
Az
References
See: Flora of Canada#References