Browse native plants of Canada by ecoregion. Each ecoregion reflects a distinct native plant community, identified from real-world occurrence data. Choose one below to see its native species.
- Alaska–St. Elias Range tundra
- Alberta Mountain forests
- Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
- Arctic coastal tundra
- Arctic foothills tundra
- British Columbia mainland coastal forests
- Brooks–British Range tundra
- Canadian Aspen forests and parklands
- Cascade Mountains leeward forests
- Central British Columbia Mountain forests
- Central Canadian Shield forests
- Central Pacific coastal forests
- Davis Highlands tundra
- Eastern Canadian Shield taiga
- Eastern Canadian forests
- Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
- Eastern forest-boreal transition
- Fraser Plateau and Basin complex
- Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests
- High Arctic tundra
- Interior Yukon–Alaska alpine tundra
- Low Arctic tundra
- Mid-Continental Canadian forests
- Middle Arctic tundra
- Midwestern Canadian Shield forests
- Montana valley and foothill grasslands
- Muskwa–Slave Lake forests
- New England-Acadian forests
- Newfoundland Highland forests
- North Central Rockies forests
- Northern Canadian Shield taiga
- Northern Cordillera forests
- Northern mixed grasslands
- Northern short grasslands
- Northern tall grasslands
- Northern transitional alpine forests
- Northwest Territories taiga
- Ogilvie–MacKenzie alpine tundra
- Okanagan dry forests
- Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra
- Puget lowland forests
- Queen Charlotte Islands
- South Avalon–Burin oceanic barrens
- Southern Great Lakes forests
- Southern Hudson Bay taiga
- Torngat Mountain tundra
- Western Great Lakes forests
- Yukon Interior dry forests
* How these results were determined: ecoregion boundaries come from a global habitat classification developed by conservation scientists at the World Wildlife Fund. Plant occurrence records come from GBIF (the Global Biodiversity Information Facility), an international open-data network built largely from citizen and academic scientists who photograph plants in the field and upload the sighting with GPS coordinates through apps like iNaturalist. We cross-reference each plant's occurrence points against the ecoregion boundaries and each species' known native range in this country to flag which matches are best supported by the evidence. You can add further filters to these results such as state, trees, wildflowers, light, or soil type using the search box once you finish clicking through to a listing. Because the ecoregion plant listings depend on citizen-science mobile phone data, they are not fully complete and some ecorgions are skipped due to lack of data.