Burn Cape Plant Species

The original list of Burnt Cape plant species was developed by Susan Meades in her studies of the Cape flora. All species are listed in the provincial checklist by Meades et al. (2000). As other species are recorded from the Cape they will be incorporated into the list. Viewers are encouraged to email Henry Mann or Ed Andrews with any comments, corrections, or additions to the these lists.

Meades, S., Hay, S. G., and L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Provincial Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador. Co-operative Projects and Partnerships. Online. Available at: http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm

Abbreviations for the degree of rarity in insular Newfoundland (Bouchard et al., 1991)

SH = historically known from NL, but not collected or relocated in 20 years
S1 = very rare and critically endangered, with less than 5 known populations
S2 = rare and threatened, with 6 to 20 known populations
S3 = somewhat rare, with 21 – 100 known populations.

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Bouchard, A., Hay, S., Brouillet, L., Jean, M., and I. Saucier. 1991. The Rare Vascular Plants of the Island of Newfoundland. Syllogeus No. 65. Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa.

Vascular Plant Species of Burnt Island,
Pistolet Bay, Newfoundland, Canada

Abies balsamea – balsam fir

Achillea millefolium – northern yarrow

Actaea rubra - red baneberry

Alchemilla filicaulis – thin-stemmed lady’s mantle

Alnus viridis – mountain alder

Amerorchis rotundifolia – small round leaved orchid [S2]

Amelanchier sp.

Andromeda glaucophylla – bog rosemary

Anemone parviflora – northern anemone

Angelica atropurpurea – purple-stemmed angelica
Angelica lucida – seaside angelica

Antennaria albicans – whitish pussytoes [SH] (A. howellii ssp. gaspensis)
Antennaria alpina – alpine pussytoes
Antennaria bayardii – Bayard’s pussytoes [S1] (A. pulvinata Greene)
Antennaria cana – alpine pussytoes [S2] (A. alpina ssp. cana)
Antennaria eucosma – Newfoundland pussytoes

Antennaria howellii – Howell’s pussytoes

Antennaria pulvinata – pulvinate pussytoes
Antennaria straminea – straw-coloured pussytoes (A. howellii ssp. gaspensis)
Antennaria spp.

Arabis alpina – alpine rockcress
Aralia nudicaulis – wild sarsaparilla
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi – common bearberry

Arctous alpina – alpine bearberry

Arctous rubra – red bearberry [S2]

Arenaria humifusa – low sandwort
Argentina anserina – silverweed

Arnica angustifolia – narrowleaf arnica
Arnica lonchophylla – longleaf arnica
Arnica spp.

Asplenium viride – green spleenwort

Aster radula – rough aster

Astragalus eucosmus – elegant milkvetch

Astraglaus alpinus – alpine milk vetch [S1]

Athyrium felix-femina – lady fern

Atriplex glabriuscula – orache
Barbarea orthoceros – erect-fruit wintercress
Bartsia alpina – velvetbells[S1]

Betula cordifolia – heartleaf birch
Betula michauxii – Newfoundland dwarf birch

Betula papyrifera – white birch
Betula pumila – bog birch

Botrychium lunaria – common moonwort
Braya fernaldii – Fernald’s rockcress [S2]

Calamagrostris canadensis – bluejoint
Calamagrostris stricta – northern reedgrass
Calypso bulbosa –fairy slipper orchid [S1]

Campanula rotundifolia – harebell

Cardamine pratensis ssp. angustifolia – meadow bittercress [S2]
Carex aquatilis – water sedge
Carex aurea – goldenfruit sedge
Carex brunnescens – brownish sedge
Carex capillaris – hair sedge
Carex chordorrhiza – creeping sedge
Carex concinna – low northern sedge [S2]
Carex eburnea – bristled-leaved sedge
Carex glacialis – Newfoundland sedge [S2]
Carex livida – livid sedge
Carex maritima – seaside sedge [S2]
Carex nigra – smooth black sedge
Carex paleacea – chaffy sedge
Carex pedunculata – long-stalked sedge [S2]
Carex rariflora – loose-flowered alpine sedge
Carex rupestris – rock sedge
Carex salina – salt-marsh sedge
Carex saxatilis – russet sedge
Carex scirpoidea – scirpus sedge
Carex subspathacea – Hoppner’s sedge
Carex trisperma – three-fruited sedge
Carex vaginata – sheathed sedge
Carex viridula little green sedge
Carum carvi – wild caraway
Castilleja septentrionalis – northern paintbrush

Cerastium alpinum – alpine chickweed [S2]

Cerastium arvense – field chickweed
Cerastium fontanum – common mouse-ear chickweed

Chamaedaphne calyculata – leatherleaf

Chamerion angustifolium – fireweed

Chamerion latifolium- river beauty

Cinna latifolia – wood reedgrass
Circaea alpina – dwarf enchanter’s nightshade

Circium palustre – marsh thistle
Cirsium multicum – swamp thistle

Clintonia borealis – cornlily

Cochlearia tridactylites – round-fruited scurvygrass
Cochlearia officinalis – common scurvygrass

Comandra umbellata – bastard toadflax

Comarum palustre – marsh cinquefoil

Conioselinum chinense – hemlock parsley

Coptis trifolia – goldthread

Corallorhiza trifida – early coralroot orchid

Cornus x intermedia – hybrid bunchberry
Cornus canadensis – crackerberry

Cornus stolonifera – red-osier dogwood

Cornus suecica – Swedish bunchberry

Crepis nana – dwarf hawk’s beard [S1]

Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens – flat-petalled yellow lady’s slipper [S2]

Cystopteris fragilis – fragile fern
Dactylorhiza viridis – frog orchid [S2]

Dasiphora fruiticosa – shrubby cinquefoil

Deschampsia cespitosa – tufted hairgrass
Draba glabella – smooth whitlowgrass
Draba incana – hoary whitlowgrass
Draba nivalis – snow whitlowgrass [S2]
Draba norvegica – Norwegian whitlowgrass
Draba species

Drosera rotundifolia – round-leaved sundew
Dryas integrifolia – white mountain avens

Dryopteris carthusiana – spinulose woodfern
Elymus trachycaulus – slender wheatgrass
Empetrum eamesii – pink crowberry
Empetrum nigrum – black crowberry

Epilobium ciliatum – northern willowherb
Epilobium davuricum – Dahurian willowherb [S2]
Epilobium lactiflorum – milky willowherb [S2]
Epilobium palustre – marsh willowherb
Equisetum arvense – field horsetail

Equisetum sylvaticum – woodland horsetail
Equisetum variegatum – variegated horsetail
Erigeron hyssopifolius – hyssop-leaved fleabane

Eriophorum brachyantherum – close-sheathed cottongrass [S2]
Eriophorum callitrix – sheathed cottongrass [S2]
Eriophorum gracile – slender cottongrass
Erysimum cheiranthoides – wormseed mustard

Erysimum hieraciifolium - tall wormseed mustard

Euphrasia frigida – arctic eyebright
Euphrasia nemorosa – common eyebright
Euphrasia oakesii – Oake’s eyebright
Euphrasia randii – Rand’s eyebright
Euphrasia suborbicularis – Gulf eyebright
Euphrasia species

Festuca brachyphylla – alpine fescue [S2]
Festuca frederikseniae – viviparous fescue [S3]

Festuca rubra – red fescue
Fragaria virginiana – northern wild strawberry

Galium labradoricum – Labrador bedstraw
Galium palustre – marsh bedstraw
Gaultheria hispidula – creeping snowberry

Gentianella amarella – northern gentian
Gentianella propinqua – four-parted gentian [S2]

Gentianopsis nesophila – island gentian

Geocaulon lividum – northern comandra

Geranium pratense – meadow geranium

Geum rivale – purple avens

Glaux maritima – sea milkwort

Gymnocarpium dryopteris – oak fern

Gymnocarpium robertianum – limestone oakfern [S2]
Halenia deflexa – spurred gentian

Hedysarum alpinum – alpine sweetvetch

Heracleum maximum- cow parsnip

Hieracium groenlandicum – Greenland hawkweed
Hierochloë alpina – alpine sweetgrass
Honckenya peploides – seabeach sandwort

Huperzia selago – mountain clubmoss

Iris setosa – beachhead iris

Juncus alpinus – alpine rush
Juncus arcticus var. balticus – Baltic rush
Juncus bufonius – toad rush

Juncus triglumis – northern white rush
Juniperus communis – common juniper

Juniperus horzontalis – creeping juniper

Kalmia angustifolia – sheep laurel

Kalmia polifolia – bog laurel

Kobresia simpliciuscula – arctic kobresia
Lamium purpureum – purple deadnettle
Larix laricina – larch

Lathyrus japonicus – beach pea

Lathyrus palustris – marsh vetchling
Leontodon autumnalis – fall dandelion

Lesquerella arctica – arctic bladderpod [S2]

Leymus arenarius – lymegrass
Leymus mollis - strand wheat

Ligusticum scoticum – scotch lovage

Linnaea borealis – twinflower

Listera convallaroides – broad-lipped twayblade

Listera cordata – heart-leaved twayblade
Loiseleuria procumbens – alpine azalea

Lomatogonium rotatum – marsh felwort

Lonicera villosa – mountain fly-honeysuckle

Luzula parviflora – small-flowered woodrush
Lycopodium annotinum – bristly clubmoss

Maianthemum canadense – wild lily-of-the-valley

Maianthemum stellatum - starry false Solomon's-seal

Mertensia maritima – oysterleaf

Minuartia dawsonensis – Dawson sandwort
Minuartia rubella – reddish sandwort
Mitella nuda – naked miterwort

Moehringia lateriflora – grove sandwort
Monenses uniflora – one-flowered wintergreen

Myrica gale – sweet gale

Orobanche uniflora – one-flowered cancerroot
Orthilia secunda – one-sided wintergreen

Osmorhiza depauperata – blunt-fruited sweet cicely [S2]
Oxytropis campestris – field oxytrope

Oxytropis deflexa var. foliolosa – pendant-pod oxytrope [S2]

Packera paupercula – balsam ragwort

Parnassia palustris – marsh grass-of-parnassus

Persicaria vivipara – alpine bistort

Petasites frigidus – arctic sweet coltsfoot

Phegopteris connectilis – long beech fern
Phleum alpinun – alpine timothy [S2]
Picea glauca – white spruce

Picea mariana – black spruce

Pinguicula vulgaris – common butterwort

Plantago maritima – seaside plantain

Platanthera dilatata – scentbottle

Platanthera huronensis – northern green orchid

Platanthera obtusata – blunt-leaved bog orchid

Poa alpina – alpine bluegrass
Poa eminens – large-flower bluegrass
Poa glauca – glaucous bluegrass
Polygonium fowleri – Fowler’s knotweed
Polygonum hudsonianum – Hudson’s knotweed [S2]
Polystichum braunii – Braun’s holly fern
Polystichum lonchitis – holly fern

Populus balsamifera – balsam popular
Potentilla neumanniana – Crantz’s cinquefoil

Potentilla nivea – snowy cinquefoil

Potentilla norvegica – rough cinquefoil

Potentilla usticapensis – Burnt Cape cinquefoil [S1]

Prenanthes trifoliolata – gall-of-the-earth

Primula egaliksensis – Greenland primrose

Primula laurentiana – Laurentian primrose

Primula mistassinica – Misstassini primrose

Pseudorchis albida var. straminea – Newfoundland orchid [S2]

Puccinellia langeana – Lange’s alkali-grass
Pyrola asarifolia – pink pyrola

Pyrola chlorantha – greenish pyrola
Pyrola minor – lesser pyrola

Ranunculus acris – common buttercup

Ranunculus cymbalaria – seaside crowfoot

Ranunculus flammula – creeping spearwort
Ranunculus repens – creeping buttercup
Rhamnus alnifolia – alder-leaved buckthorn

Rhinanthus minor – yellow rattle

Rhodiola rosea – roseroot

Rhododendron groenlandicum – Labrador tea

Rhododendron lapponicum – Lapland rosebay

Ribes glandulosum – skunk currant
Ribes hirtellum – smooth gooseberry

Ribes lacustre – bristly black currant

Ribes triste – swamp red currant

Rubus arcticus ssp. acaulis – plumboy

Rubus chamaemorus – bakeapple

Rubus idaeus – wild red raspberry

Rubus pubescens – dewberry

Sagina nodosa – knotty pearlwort
Sagina procumbens – procumbent pearlwort
Salicornia maritima – jointed glasswort
Salix calcicola – limestone willow

Salix candida - hoary willow

Salix glauca – beautiful willow

Salix planifolia – tealeaf willow
Salix reticulata – netvein willow

Salix uva-ursi – bearberry willow

Salix vestita – hairy willow

Salix x cryptodonta – smalltooth willow
Sanguisorba canadensis – bottlebrush

Sarracenia purpurea – pitcher plant
Saxifraga aizoides – yellow mountain saxifrage

Saxifraga cespitosa – tufted saxifrage

Saxifraga oppositifolia – purple mountain saxifrage

Saxifraga paniculata – encrusted saxifrage

Schizachne purpurascens – purple false melic
Scirpus microcarpus – red-tinged bulrush
Selaginella selaginoides – northern spikemoss

Senecio pseudoarnica – false arnica

Shepherdia canadensis – soapberry

Sibbaldlopsis tridentata – three-toothed cinquefoil

Silene acaulis – moss campion

Solidago hispida – hairy goldenrod

Solidago macrophylla – large-leaved goldenrod

Solidago multiradiata – northern goldenrod

Solidago uliginosa – bog goldenrod

Sorbus decora – showy mountain ash

Spergularia canadensis – northern sandspurry
Stellaria borealis – northern stitchwort
Stellaria crassifolia – fleshy stitchwort [S2]
Stellaria graminea – grassleaf stitchwort

Stellaria humifusa – saltmarsh starwort
Stellaria longipes – long-stalked stitchwort

Streptopus amplexifolius – white mandarin

Streptopus lanceolatus – rose mandarin

Streptopus x oreopolus – mountain twistedstalk
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii – New York Aster
Symphyotrichum puniceum – purple-stemmed aster

Tanacetum bipinnatum ssp. huronense – dwarf tansy

Taraxacum ceratophorum – horned dandelion
Taraxacum lapponicum – Lapland dandelion
Taraxacum lyratum – harp dandelion [S1]
Taraxacum officinale – common dandelion
Taraxacum species

Taxus canadensis – Canada yew
Thalictrum alpinum – alpine meadowrue

Thalictrum pubescens – tall meadowrue

Tofieldia glutinosa – sticky tofieldia

Tofieldia pusilla – small tofieldia

Trichophorum alpinum – alpine cottongrass

Trichophorum cespitosum – deergrass

Trientalis borealis – starflower

Trifolium repens – white clover

Triglochin maritima – seaside arrowgrass
Trisetum spicatum – narrow false oats
Urtica dioica – stinging nettle

Vaccinium angustifolium – lowbush blueberry

Vaccinium oxycoccus – small cranberry

Vaccinium uliginosum – alpine bilberry

Vaccinium vitis-idaea – partridgeberry

Viburnum edule – squashberry

Viburnum opulus – highbush cranberry

Viola labradorica – Labrador violet
Viola macloskeyi ssp. pallens – northern white violet
Viola nephrophylla – northern bog violet
Viola renifolia – kidney-leaved violet

Viola species

Bryophytes
Dicranum sp. – broom moss
Hylocomium splendens – stair-step moss
Marchantia species

Pleurozium schreberi – Schreiber’s feathermoss
Polytrichum commune – haircap moss
Ptilium crista-castrensis – plume moss
Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus – shaggy moss
Sphagnum fuscum – brown peatmoss
Sphagnum capillifolium – red peatmoss
Thuidium recognitum
Tomenthypnum nitens

Lichens
Cetraria islandica – Iceland cetraria
Cetraria nivalis – snowy cetraria
Cladina stellaris
Cladina arbuscula – reindeer lichen
Cladina rangiferina – reindeer lichen
Cladonia uncialis
Coelocaulon aculeata
Hypogymnia physodes
Ochrolechia frigida
Sphaerophorus globosus
Thamnolia vermicularis
Umbilicaria sp. – rock tripe [on boulders]
Xanthoria candelaria [on boulders where birds perch]