Common Shrub Species – Northwestern Ontario Forest

Table of Contents

  • Acer spicatum
    – Mountain Maple – “White Maple”
  • Alnus crispa
    Green Alder
  • Alnus rugosa
    Speckled Alder
  • Amelanchier bartramiana
    – Mountain Juneberry
  • Amelanchier humilis
    – Shadbush
  • Amelanchier sanguinea
    Saskatoon – “Red-twigged Serviceberry, Juneberry”
  • Andromeda glaucophylla
    – Bog Rosemary
  • Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
    – Bearberry
  • Chamaedaphne calyculata
    – Leatherleaf
  • Chimaphila umbellata
    – Pipsissewa – “Prince’s Pine”
  • Cornus stolonifera
    – Red Osier Dogwood
  • Corylus cornuta
    – Beaked Hazel
  • Diervilla lonicera
    – Bush Honeysuckle
  • Empetrum nigrum
    – Crowberry
  • Epigaea repens
    Trailing Arbutus
  • Gaultheria hispidula
    – Creeping Snowberry
  • Gaultheria procumbens
    – Wintergreen
  • Hudsonia tomentosa
    – Sand Heather
  • Juniperus communis
    – Common Juniper
  • Juniperus horizontalis
    – Creeping Juniper
  • Kalmia polfolia
    – Bog Laurel
  • Ledum groenlandicum
    – Labrador Tea
  • Linnea borealis
    – Twinflower
  • Lonicera canadensis
    Canada Fly Honeysuckle
  • Lonicera dioica
    – Twining Honeysuckle
  • Lonicera involucrata
    – Bracted Honeysuckle
  • Lonicera oblongifolia
    – Swamp Fly Honeysuckle
  • Lonicera villosa
    – Mountain Fly Honeysuckle
  • Prunus pensylvanica
    – Pin Cherry
  • Prunus virginiana
    – Choke Cherry
  • Rhamnus alnifonia
    – Alder-leaved Buckthorn
  • Ribes americanum
    – Wild Black Currant
  • Ribes gladusolum
    – Skunk Currant
  • Ribes hudsonianum
    – Northern Black Currant
  • Ribes lacustre
    – Bristly Black Currant
  • Ribes triste
    – Wild Red Currant
  • Rosa acicularis
    Prickly Wild Rose
  • Rubus chamaemorus
    – Cloudberry – “Bake-apple”
  • Rubus idaeus
    – Wild Red Raspberry
  • Rubus parviflorus
    – Thimbleberry
  • Rubus pubescens
    – Dwarf Raspberry
  • Salix bebbiana
    – Bebb’s Willow – “Beaked Willow”
  • Salix discolor
    – Pussy Willow
  • Salix humilis
    – Upland Willow
  • Sorbus americana
    – American Mountain Ash
  • Sorbus decora
    Showy Mountain Ash
  • Taxus canadensis
    – American Yew
  • Spiraea alba
    – Narrow-Leaved Meadowsweet
  • Symphoricarpos albus
    – Common Snowberry
  • Symphoricarpos occidentalis
    – Western Snowberry – “Buckbrush”
  • Vaccinium caespitosum
    – Dwarf Blueberry – “Dwarf Bilberry”
  • Vaccinium myrtilloides
    – Velvet Leaf Blueberry – “Common Blueberry”
  • Vaccinium vitis-idaea
    – Lingonberry – “Bog Cranberry”
  • Viburnum edule
    – Squashberry – “Low Bush-Cranberry”
  • Viburnum opulus
    – High Bush-Cranberry