Boreal Forest

Graminoids

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Trees

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Shrubs

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Herbs & Wildflowers

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Graminoids

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Ferns

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Aquatic Plants

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Moss & Lichens

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Mushrooms

This subsection contains a list of graminoids found within the boreal ecoregions of Canada, Alaska, Siberia, Scandinavia & Iceland.

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Acoraceae - Sweetflag Family

Acorus americanus - Sweetflag

Present in every North American Boreal Forest.
How to Identify & Propagate

Poaceae - Grasses Family

Calamagrostis

Calamagrostis canadensis - Bluejoint Grass

Present in every Boreal Forest (Holarctic Distribution).
How to Identify & Propagate

Cinna

Cinna latifolia - Drooping Wood Reed

Eastern Canadian, Central Canadian Shield, Midwestern Canadian Shield Forests. Eastern Forest-Boreal Transition, Great Lakes & Acadian Forests.

Glyceria

Glyceria canadensis - Canada Mannagrass

Eastern Canadian, Boreal Transition, Great Lakes, & Acadian Forests. Northern, Central, Midwestern Canadian Shield, & Southern Hudson Bay Taiga.

Hierochloe

Hierochloe odorata - Sweet Grass

Present in every Boreal Forest (Hollartic Distribution).

Hordeum

Hordeum jubatum - Foxtail Barley

Present in every Boreal Forest (Hollartic Distribution).

Phleum

Phleum pratense - Timothy

Present in every Boreal Forest (Hollartic Distribution).

Phalaris

Phalaris arundinacea - Reed Canarygrass

Present in every Boreal Forest (Hollartic Distribution).

Phragmites

Phragmites australis - Common Reed

From the Eastern Canadian Forests, through the Canadian Shield up to Northwest Territories Taiga, the Northern Cordillera, & Yukon Interior Dry Forests. Scandinavian & Russian Taiga.

Oryzopsis

Oryzopsis asperifolia - Rough-Leaved Rice Grass

From Newfoundland Highland Forests through the Canadian Shield Taiga, up until Muskwa-Slave Lake, Northern Cordillera, & Northwest Territories Taiga.

Schizachne

Schizachne purpurascens - False Melic Grass

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Sorghastrum

Sorghastrum nutans - Indiangrass

Eastern Canadian, Boreal Transition, Great Lakes, & Acadian Forests. Northern, Central, Midwestern Canadian Shield, & Southern Hudson Bay Taiga.

Zizania

Zizania aquatica - Northern Wild Rice

Newfoundland Highland, Eastern Canadian, Boreal Transition, Great Lakes, & Acadian Forests. Northern, Central, Midwestern Canadian Shield, & Southern Hudson Bay Taiga.

Cyperaceae - Sedges Family

Carex

Carex canescens - Short Sedge

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Carex disperma - Two-Seeded Sedge

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Carex leptalea - Bristle-Stalked Sedge

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Carex trisperma - Three-Seeded Sedge

From Newfoundland Highland Forests through the Canadian Shield Taiga, up until Muskwa-Slave Lake, Northern Cordillera, & Northwest Territories Taiga.

Carex crinita - Fringed Sedge

Eastern Canadian, Boreal Transition, Great Lakes, & Acadian Forests. Northern, Central, Midwestern Canadian Shield, & Southern Hudson Bay Taiga.

Carex intumescens - Bladder Sedge

Newfoundland Highland, Eastern Canadian, Boreal Transition, Great Lakes, & Acadian Forests. Southern, Hudson Bay, Eastern, Central, Midwestern Canadian Shield Taiga.

Carex vaginata - Sheathed Sedge

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Dulichium

Dulichium arundinaceum - Three-way Sedge

From Newfoundland Highland Forests through the Canadian Shield Taiga, up until Muskwa-Slave Lake, Northern Cordillera, Northwest Territories, & Cook InletTaiga.

Eleocharis

Eleocharis palustris - Common Spikerush

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Eriophorum

Eriophorum angustifolium - Common Cottongrass

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Eriophorum virginicum - Tawny Cottongrass

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Eriophorum vaginatum - Tussock Cottongrass

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Rhychospora

Rhynchospora alba - White Beakrush

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Scirpus

Scirpus cyperinus - Woolgrass

Newfoundland Highland, Eastern Canadian, Boreal Transition, Great Lakes, & Acadian Forests. Southern, Hudson Bay, Eastern, Central, Midwestern Canadian Shield Taiga.

Scirpus microcarpus - Red-tinged Bulrush

From Newfoundland Highland Forests, through the Canadian Shield Taiga up to Interior Alaska Yukon Lowland, Cook Inlet, Coppear Platea, & the Alaska Peninsula Montana Taiga.

Schoenoplectus

Schoenoplectus acutus - Common Tule

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani - Soft-stemmed Bulrush

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Trichophorum

Trichophorum alpinum - Alpine Clubrush

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Juncaceae - Rushes Family

Luzala

Luzula parviflora - Small-Flowered Wood Rush

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

Typhaceae - Bulrush Family

Sparganium

Sparganium fluctuans - Floating Burreed

From Newfoundland Highland Forests through the Canadian Shield Taiga up to Muskwa-Slave Lake, Northern Cordillera Forests.

Typha

Typha latifolia - Broadleaf Cattail

Present in every Boreal Forest. (Holarctic distribution.)

The plant distribution data listed see here has been verified through discoverlife.org and has been localized using the boreal ecoregions from World Wildlife Fund.

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