List of Canadian plants by genus D

This is a partial list of the plant species considered native to Canada. ^[1]

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

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

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Da

• Dalea — prairie clovers
  • Dalea purpurea — prairie clover
• Dalibarda — dewdrops
  • Dalibarda repens — dewdrop, false violet, robin-run-away, star violet
• Danthonia — oatgrasses
  • Danthonia compressa — flattened oatgrass, flat-stemmed danthonia
  • Danthonia spicata — poverty oatgrass

De

• Decodon — willowherbs
  • Decodon verticillatus — swamp willowherb, water oleander, water willow, hairy swamp loosestrife
• Dennstaedtia — hay-scented ferns
  • Dennstaedtia punctilobula — eastern hay-scented fern
• Deparia — glade ferns
  • Deparia acrostichoides — silvery glade fern, silvery spleenwort
• Deschampsia — hairgrasses
  • Deschampsia atropurpurea — mountain hairgrass
  • Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. cespitosa — tufted hairgrass, tussock grass
  • Deschampsia flexuosa — wavy hairgrass, crinkled hairgrass
• Descurainia — tansy-mustards
  • Descurainia pinnata — western tansy-mustard, green tansy-mustard, shortfruit tansy-mustard
  • Descurainia richardsonii — Richardson's tansy-mustard
• Desmodium — tick-trefoils
  • Desmodium canadense — Canadian tick-trefoil, showy tick-trefoil
  • Desmodium canescens
  • Desmodium cuspidatum — toothed tick-trefoil
  • Desmodium glutinosum — pointy-leaved tick-trefoil, large tick-trefoil
  • Desmodium illinoense — Illinois tick-trefoil Extirpated
  • Desmodium nudiflorum — bare-stemmed tick-trefoil, naked-flowered tick-trefoil
  • Desmodium paniculatum var. dillenii
  • Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum
  • Desmodium rotundifolium — roundleaf tick-trefoil, prostrate tick-trefoil, dollar leaf

Di

• Diarrhena — beak grasses
  • Diarrhena obovata — beak grass
• Dicentra — dicentras
  • Dicentra canadensis — squirrel corn
  • Dicentra cucullaria — Dutchman's-breeches, soldier's cap
• Diervilla — bush honeysuckles
  • Diervilla lonicera — northern bush honeysuckle
• Digitaria — witchgrasses
  • Digitaria cognata — fall witchgrass
• Dioscorea —
  • Dioscorea quaternata — fourleaf wild-yam
• Diphasiastrum — clubmosses
  • Diphasiastrum complanatum — trailing clubmoss, northern ground-cedar, northern running-pine, flat-branched clubmoss, trailing evergreen, Christmas green, ground-pine
  • Diphasiastrum digitatum — fan clubmoss, southern running-pine, southern ground-cedar, fan ground-pine, crowfoot clubmoss, trailing ground-pine
  • Diphasiastrum sabinifolium — ground-fir, savinleaf clubmoss, heath-cypress
  • Diphasiastrum sitchense — Sitka clubmoss, tufted ground-cedar, Alaskan clubmoss
  • Diphasiastrum tristachyum — three-spiked clubmoss, blue ground-cedar, northern ground-pine
• Diplazium — glade ferns
  • Diplazium pycnocarpon — narrowleaf glade fern, narrowleaf spleenwort
• Dirca — leatherwoods
  • Dirca palustris — leatherwoods, ropebark, moosewood, wicopy

Do

• Doellingeria — flattop white aster
  • Doellingeria umbellata var. pubens — hairy flattop white aster
  • Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata — tall flattop white aster, parasol whitetop

Dr

• Draba — whitlowgrasses
  • Draba alpina — alpine whitlowgrass
  • Draba arabisans — rock whitlowgrass
  • Draba aurea — golden whitlowgrass, golden draba
  • Draba cana — canescent whitlowgrass, hairyfruit whitlowgrass
  • Draba cinerea — ashy whitlowgrass, greyleaf whitlowgrass
  • Draba glabella — smooth whitlowgrass
  • Draba incana — hoary whitlowgrass
  • Draba lactea — milky whitlowgrass
  • Draba nemorosa — woodland whitlowgrass
  • Draba nivalis — snow whitlowgrass, snow draba, yellow arctic whitlowgrass
  • Draba norvegica — Norwegian whitlowgrass
  • Draba reptans — Carolina whitlowgrass
• Dracocephalum — dragonheads
  • Dracocephalum parviflorum — American dragonhead, dragonhead mint
• Drosera — sundews
  • Drosera anglica — English sundew
  • Drosera intermedia — spoonleaf sundew, spatulate-leaf sundew, floating sundew, narrowleaf sundew
  • Drosera linearis — slenderleaf sundew, linear-leaf sundew
  • Drosera rotundifolia — roundleaf sundew, dewplant
• Dryas — mountain avens
  • Dryas drummondii — yellow mountain avens, Drummond's dryad
  • Dryas integrifolia — white mountain avens
• Dryopteris — woodferns
  • Dryopteris carthusiana — spinulose woodfern, spinulose shieldfern, toothed woodfern, narrow Buckler fern
  • Dryopteris clintoniana — Clinton's woodfern
  • Dryopteris cristata — crested woodfern
  • Dryopteris expansa — spreading woodfern, northern Buckler fern, northern woodfern
  • Dryopteris filix-mas — male fern,
  • Dryopteris fragrans — fragrant woodfern
  • Dryopteris goldieana — Goldie's woodfern
  • Dryopteris intermedia — evergreen woodfern
  • Dryopteris marginalis — marginal woodfern, leather woodfern

Du

• Dulichium — threeway sedges
  • Dulichium arundinaceum — threeway sedge
• Dupontia — tundra grasses
  • Dupontia fisheri — Fischer's tundra grass, Fischer's dupontia

Dy

• Dyssodia — dogweeds
  • Dyssodia papposa — fœtid dogweed

References

1. Macoun, John; Canada, Geological Survey of (1883). Catalogue of Canadian Plants ... Dawson Brothers.

See: Flora of Canada#References