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List of Canadian plants by genus C

This is a partial list of the plant species considered native to Canada.

Many of the plants seen in Canada were introduced, either intentionally or accidentally. For these plants, see List of plants introduced to Canada.

N indicates native and X indicates exotic. Those plants whose status is unknown are marked with a ?.

Due to Canada's biodiversity, this page is divided.

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.
  • 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

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

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
  • X Clinopodium acinos (syn. Acinos arvensis) – mother-of-thyme, spring savoury, basil thyme
  • 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

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References

See: Flora of Canada#References