page_title: Ukkusiksalik National Park
section_title: Flora
hierarchical_section_title: Ukkusiksalik National Park / Flora
caption_attribution_description: English: Flowering Purple Saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia), Ukkusiksalik National Park, Nunavut, Canada
context_page_description: Ukkusiksalik National Park is a national park in Nunavut, Canada. It covers 20,885 km² of tundra and coastal mudflats south of the Arctic Circle and the hamlet of Naujaat, from Hudson Bay's Roes Welcome Sound towards the western Barrenlands and the source of Brown River. The park surrounds Wager Bay, a 100 km-long inlet on the Hudson Bay. Although the smallest of Nunavut's four national parks, it is the sixth largest in Canada. Its name relates to steatite found there: Ukkusiksalik means "where there is material for the stone pot".
  In addition to a reversing waterfall and over 500 archeological sites, including an old Hudson's Bay Company trading post, the region is home to such species as polar bears, grizzly bears, Arctic wolf, barren-ground caribou, seals and peregrine falcons. Vegetation in the park is typical low tundra, with dwarf birch, willow and mountain avens. Scattered patches of boreal forest can be encountered in river valleys.
  The park is uninhabited now, but the Inuit lived there from 11th century to the 1960s. Remains of fox traps, tent rings, and food caches have been discovered in the area.
context_section_description: On the one hand, the national park is a typical rocky tundra area, on the other hand, beneath algae, bryophyte and lecanorales lichens grows a flora of 25 families of flowering plants. They are closely related to alpine flora, but different. The following families and species are found:
  Birch family (Betulaceae) - dwarf birch (Betula nana), American dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa)
  Bladderwort family (Lentibulariaceae) - common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)
  Bluebell family (Campanulaceae) – bluebell (Campanula uniflora)
  Borage family (Boraginaceae) - sea lungwort (Mertensia maritima)
  Buckwheat family (Polygonaceae) – alpine bistort (Polygonum viviparum), mountain sorrel (Oxyria digyna)
  Buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) - birdfoot buttercup (Ranunculus pedatifidus), pygmy buttercup (Ranunculus pygmaeus)
  Clubmosses (Lycopodiaceae) - mountain clubmoss (Huperzia selago)
  Daisy family (Asteraceae) - alpine daisy (Arnica alpina), Arctic daisy (Dendranthema arcticum), lacerate dandelion (Taraxacum lacerum), mastodon flower (Senecio congestus), pussy-toes (Antennaria ssp.), sea-shore chamomile (Matricaria ambigua), wormwood (Artemisia borealis)
  Diapensia family (Diapensiaceae) – diapensia (Diapensia lapponica)
  Ferns (Polypodiaceae) - fragrant shield fern (Dryopteris fragrans)
  Figwort family (Scrophulariaceae) - Arctic lousewort (Pedicularis arctica), hairy lousewort (Pedicularis hirsuta), Labrador lousewort (Pedicularis labradorica), Lapland lousewort (Pedicularis lapponica), Sudeten lousewort (Pedicularis sudetica)
  Grasses (Poaceae or Gramineae) - Alpine fescue (Festuca brachyphylla), bluegrass (Poa alpina), reed-bentgrass (Calamagrostis lapponica), sea lyme-grass (Leymus arenarius), spike trisetum (Trisetum spicatum), wild barley (Hordeum jubatum)
  Heath family (Ericaceae) - Arctic bell heather (Cassiope tetragonal), black bearberry (Arctostaphylos alpina), bog bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum), Labrador tea (Rhododendron subarcticum), bog-rosemary (Andromeda polifolia), crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), Lapland rose-bay (Rhododendron lapponicum), large-flowered wintergreen (Pyrola grandiflora), mountain cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)
  Horsetail family (Equisetaceae) - horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
  Leadwort family (Plumbaginaceae) - thrift (Armeria maritime)
  Lily family (Melanthiaceae) - false bog asphodel (Tofieldia pusilla)
  Mustard family (Brassicaceae or Cruciferae) - Arctic bladderpod (Lesquerella arctica)
  Pea family (Fabaceae, Faboideae) - alpine milk vetch (Astragalus alpinus), Arctic oxytrope (Oxytropis arctica), blue oxytrope (Oxytropis arctobia), liquorice-root (Eskimo potato) (Hedysarum alpinum), sweet vetch (Hedysarum mackenziei), yellow oxytrope (Oxytropis maydelliana)
  Pink family (Caryophyllaceae) - Arctic bladder campion (Melandrium affine), knotted pearlwort (Sagina nodosa), moss campion (Silene acaulis), mouse-ear chickweed (Cerastium alpinum), purple bladder campion (Melandrium apetalum), seabeach sandwort (Honckenya peploides), star chickweed (Stellaria longipes)
  Poppy family (Papaveraceae) - Arctic poppy (Papaver radicatum)
  Rose family (Rosaceae) - cinquefoil (Potentilla) or silverweed (Potentilla anserina or Argentina anserina), cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus), mountain avens (Dryas octopetala) (flower of the Northwest Territories), snow cinquefoil (Potentilla nivea)
  Saxifrage family (Saxifragaceae, saxifrage) - bulblet saxifrage (Saxifraga cernua), golden saxifrage (Chrysosplenium), grass of Parnassus (Parnassia), prickly saxifrage (Saxifraga tricuspidata), purple saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) (flower of Nunavut)
  Sedges (Cyperaceae) - Arctic cotton (Eriophorum scheuchzeri), cotton grass (Eriophorum vaginatum), sedge (Carex ssp.)
  Plantain family (Plantaginaceae (see Hippuris or Hippuridaceae)) - common mare's tail (Hippuris vulgaris)
  Willow family (Salicaceae, salix) - Arctic willow (Salix arctica), planeleaf willow (Salix planifolia), least willow (Salix herbacea), net-leaved willow (Salix reticulata), trailing willow (Salix arctophila)
  Willowherb family (Onagraceae) - fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) (fl
caption: Purple saxifrage – territorial flower of Nunavut
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