New Records of Vascular Plants in the Yukon Territory VI

Authors

  • William J. Cody Biodiversity, National Program on Environmental Health, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Wm. Saunders Building (49), Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6
  • Catherine E. Kennedy Department of Environment, Government of the Yukon, Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6
  • Bruce Bennett Department of Environment, Government of the Yukon, Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6
  • Phil Caswell P. O. Box 91, Roxbury, New York 12474

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v118i4.58

Keywords:

Vascular plants, Yukon Territory, flora, new records, range extensions, phytogeography

Abstract

Based on field reconnaissance mainly in 2002 in the southern part of the Yukon and particularly in and adjacent to Kluane National Park, information is provided on geographically significant plant occurrences. Six native taxa, Atriplex alaskensis, Claytonia megarrhiza, Corispermum ochotense var. alaskanum, Oxytropis arctica, Polemonium acutiflorum forma lacteum and Polemonium boreale forma albiflorum, and four introduced taxa. Arabis caucasica, Camelina sativa, Senecio eremophilus, and Setaria viridis are reported new to the known flora of the Yukon Territory. Significant range extensions for 158 native and 21 introduced taxa are included. Parrya arctica, Armoracia rusticana, Atriplex patula and Papaver nudicaule ssp. nudicaule are excluded from the Yukon flora.

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Vol. 118 No. 4 (2004)

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