State or province

Québec

Québec, Canada: 11 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Eleven ecoregions reach Québec and the province crosses the full gradient from mixed hardwood forest to arctic tundra. The Northeastern Hardwoods, Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests and Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests cover the settled south, and the first two are in the Nature Imperiled tier. Through the middle run the Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition, Central Canadian Shield forests, Eastern Canadian forests and Eastern Canadian Shield taiga. The north holds the Canadian Low Arctic tundra, Canadian Middle Arctic Tundra, Southern Hudson Bay taiga and Torngat Mountain tundra. Nearly all gardening happens in the St. Lawrence valley, which is the mildest and the most converted part of that list, and where the native hardwood palette applies.

Native plants of Québec

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

Allegheny blackberry American arborvitae American basswood American elderberry American hazelnut American hophornbeam American plum American red raspberry Balsam fir Big bluestem Black cherry Black chokeberry Black willow Bloodroot Blue vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed Canada anemone Canada lily Canadian serviceberry Chokecherry Christmas fern Common hackberry Common hops Common juniper Common milkweed Common ninebark Common witch hazel Common yarrow Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Eastern cottonwood Eastern red cedar Eastern white pine Foamflower Foxglove beardtongue Golden alexanders Golden currant Gray birch Gray dogwood Groundnut Highbush blueberry Indian grass Lady fern Largeflower tickseed Little bluestem Mapleleaf viburnum Mayapple Nannyberry New England aster Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Pagoda dogwood Paper birch Plains coreopsis Prairie dropseed Pussy willow Quaking aspen Ramps Red maple Red spruce Red-osier dogwood Scarlet bee balm Shagbark hickory Silver maple Smooth blue aster Spotted Joe-Pye weed Sugar maple Swamp milkweed Switchgrass Threadleaf coreopsis Virginia bluebells White oak White wood aster Wild bergamot Wild strawberry Yellow birch

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Canada

Ecoregions here

Canadian Low Arctic tundra Canadian Middle Arctic Tundra Central Canadian Shield forests Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition Eastern Canadian forests Eastern Canadian Shield taiga Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests Northeastern Hardwoods Southern Hudson Bay taiga Torngat Mountain tundra