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Ontario

Ontario, Canada: 7 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Seven ecoregions reach Ontario and the province spans from Carolinian forest to subarctic coast. The Southern Great Lakes forests and Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests cover the populated south, and both are in the Nature Imperiled tier. Through the middle run the Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition and the Western Great Lakes forests, and the north is boreal, the Central Canadian Shield forests, Midwest Canadian Shield forests and Southern Hudson Bay taiga reaching James Bay. Nearly all Ontario gardening happens in the southern band, which is the most reduced part of the roster and also the mildest ground in the province. Native trees and understory from that band do more ecological work here than their footprint suggests.

Native plants of Ontario

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Ontario, each with its climate-fit grade and planting guidance.

Allegheny blackberry American arborvitae American basswood American hazelnut American hophornbeam American plum American red raspberry American sycamore Anise hyssop Arrowwood viburnum Balsam fir Big bluestem Black cherry Black walnut Black willow Bloodroot Blue flag iris Blue grama Blue vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed Canada anemone Canada goldenrod Canada lily Canadian serviceberry Chokecherry Christmas fern Common blue violet Common hackberry Common hops Common juniper Common milkweed Common ninebark Common witch hazel Common yarrow Creeping juniper Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern white pine Flowering dogwood Foamflower Fox grape Foxglove beardtongue Golden alexanders Golden currant Gray birch Gray dogwood Groundnut Highbush blueberry Honey locust Indian grass Lady fern Lanceleaf coreopsis Largeflower tickseed Little bluestem Mapleleaf viburnum Marginal wood fern Mayapple Nannyberry New England aster New Jersey tea Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Ostrich fern Pagoda dogwood Pale purple coneflower Paper birch Pawpaw Plains coreopsis Prairie dropseed Prairie smoke Pussy willow Quaking aspen Ramps Red maple Red mulberry Red spruce Sassafras Scarlet bee balm Shagbark hickory Side-oats grama Silky dogwood Silver maple Smooth blue aster Spotted Joe-Pye weed Stiff goldenrod Sugar maple Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp white oak Sweet Joe-Pye weed Switchgrass Threadleaf coreopsis Tulip tree (yellow poplar)Virginia bluebells Virginia iris White oak White wood aster Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild lupine Wild senna Wild strawberry Yellow birch

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Canada

Ecoregions here

Central Canadian Shield forests Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests Midwest Canadian Shield forests Southern Great Lakes forests Southern Hudson Bay taiga Western Great Lakes forests