List of Canadian plants by genus D
This is a partial list of the plant species considered native to Canada.[1]
Many of the plants seen in Canada were introduced, either intentionally or accidentally. For these plants, see List of introduced species to Canada.
N indicated native and X indicated exotic. Those plants whose status is unknown are marked with a ?.
Due to Canada's biodiversity, this page is divided.
Da
- Dalea — prairie clovers
- Dalea purpurea — prairie clover
- Dalibarda — dewdrops
- Dalibarda repens — dewdrop, false violet, robin-run-away, star violet
- Danthonia — oatgrasses
- Danthonia compressa — flattened oatgrass, flat-stemmed danthonia
- Danthonia spicata — poverty oatgrass
De
- Decodon — willowherbs
- Decodon verticillatus — swamp willowherb, water oleander, water willow, hairy swamp loosestrife
- Dennstaedtia — hay-scented ferns
- Dennstaedtia punctilobula — eastern hay-scented fern
- Deparia — glade ferns
- Deparia acrostichoides — silvery glade fern, silvery spleenwort
- Deschampsia — hairgrasses
- Deschampsia atropurpurea — mountain hairgrass
- Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. cespitosa — tufted hairgrass, tussock grass
- Deschampsia flexuosa — wavy hairgrass, crinkled hairgrass
- Descurainia — tansy-mustards
- Descurainia pinnata — western tansy-mustard, green tansy-mustard, shortfruit tansy-mustard
- Descurainia richardsonii — Richardson's tansy-mustard
- Desmodium — tick-trefoils
- Desmodium canadense — Canadian tick-trefoil, showy tick-trefoil
- Desmodium canescens
- Desmodium cuspidatum — toothed tick-trefoil
- Desmodium glutinosum — pointy-leaved tick-trefoil, large tick-trefoil
- Desmodium illinoense — Illinois tick-trefoil Extirpated
- Desmodium nudiflorum — bare-stemmed tick-trefoil, naked-flowered tick-trefoil
- Desmodium paniculatum var. dillenii
- Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum
- Desmodium rotundifolium — roundleaf tick-trefoil, prostrate tick-trefoil, dollar leaf
Di
- Diarrhena — beak grasses
- Diarrhena obovata — beak grass
- Dicentra — dicentras
- Dicentra canadensis — squirrel corn
- Dicentra cucullaria — Dutchman's-breeches, soldier's cap
- Diervilla — bush honeysuckles
- Diervilla lonicera — northern bush honeysuckle
- Digitaria — witchgrasses
- Digitaria cognata — fall witchgrass
- Dioscorea —
- Dioscorea quaternata — fourleaf wild-yam
- Diphasiastrum — clubmosses
- Diphasiastrum complanatum — trailing clubmoss, northern ground-cedar, northern running-pine, flat-branched clubmoss, trailing evergreen, Christmas green, ground-pine
- Diphasiastrum digitatum — fan clubmoss, southern running-pine, southern ground-cedar, fan ground-pine, crowfoot clubmoss, trailing ground-pine
- Diphasiastrum sabinifolium — ground-fir, savinleaf clubmoss, heath-cypress
- Diphasiastrum sitchense — Sitka clubmoss, tufted ground-cedar, Alaskan clubmoss
- Diphasiastrum tristachyum — three-spiked clubmoss, blue ground-cedar, northern ground-pine
- Diplazium — glade ferns
- Diplazium pycnocarpon — narrowleaf glade fern, narrowleaf spleenwort
- Dirca — leatherwoods
- Dirca palustris — leatherwoods, ropebark, moosewood, wicopy
Do
- Doellingeria — flattop white aster
- Doellingeria umbellata var. pubens — hairy flattop white aster
- Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata — tall flattop white aster, parasol whitetop
Dr
- Draba — whitlowgrasses
- Draba alpina — alpine whitlowgrass
- Draba arabisans — rock whitlowgrass
- Draba aurea — golden whitlowgrass, golden draba
- Draba cana — canescent whitlowgrass, hairyfruit whitlowgrass
- Draba cinerea — ashy whitlowgrass, greyleaf whitlowgrass
- Draba glabella — smooth whitlowgrass
- Draba incana — hoary whitlowgrass
- Draba lactea — milky whitlowgrass
- Draba nemorosa — woodland whitlowgrass
- Draba nivalis — snow whitlowgrass, snow draba, yellow arctic whitlowgrass
- Draba norvegica — Norwegian whitlowgrass
- Draba reptans — Carolina whitlowgrass
- Dracocephalum — dragonheads
- Dracocephalum parviflorum — American dragonhead, dragonhead mint
- Drosera — sundews
- Drosera anglica — English sundew
- Drosera intermedia — spoonleaf sundew, spatulate-leaf sundew, floating sundew, narrowleaf sundew
- Drosera linearis — slenderleaf sundew, linear-leaf sundew
- Drosera rotundifolia — roundleaf sundew, dewplant
- Dryas — mountain avens
- Dryas drummondii — yellow mountain avens, Drummond's dryad
- Dryas integrifolia — white mountain avens
- Dryopteris — woodferns
- Dryopteris carthusiana — spinulose woodfern, spinulose shieldfern, toothed woodfern, narrow Buckler fern
- Dryopteris clintoniana — Clinton's woodfern
- Dryopteris cristata — crested woodfern
- Dryopteris expansa — spreading woodfern, northern Buckler fern, northern woodfern
- Dryopteris filix-mas — male fern,
- Dryopteris fragrans — fragrant woodfern
- Dryopteris goldieana — Goldie's woodfern
- Dryopteris intermedia — evergreen woodfern
- Dryopteris marginalis — marginal woodfern, leather woodfern
Du
- Dulichium — threeway sedges
- Dulichium arundinaceum — threeway sedge
- Dupontia — tundra grasses
- Dupontia fisheri — Fischer's tundra grass, Fischer's dupontia
Dy
- Dyssodia — dogweeds
- Dyssodia papposa — fœtid dogweed
References
- ^ Macoun, John; Canada, Geological Survey of (1883). Catalogue of Canadian Plants ... Dawson Brothers.