Botanical Nomenclature

The CNVC species list contains over 2800 vascular and 1200 non-vascular plant species. These are the species recorded in over 100,000 sample plots from across Canada that are included in the CNVC classification analyses.

Nomenclature Lookup

  • check scientific names, common names, synonyms and lifeforms
  • find CNVC factsheets that refer to a specific species

Reference sources for botanical nomenclature used in the CNVC species list

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Other botanical websites