Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Mixedwood boreal forest with jack pine, trembling aspen ("Populus tremuloides "), white spruce, and tamarack ("Larix laricina") populate the Southern Boreal Forest which also houses the forestry industry. The ground cover is lichen and stairstep moss. Bearberry, low-bush cranberry ("Vaccinium vitis-idaea"), Red Osier Dogwood ("Cornus sericea, syn. C. stolonifera, Swida sericea") predominate the shrub layer.