Mi'kmaq Ecological Knowledge Distribution of Culturally Significant ...

TUPSI Downy Alder Alnus viridis
Downy Alder Favourable Conditions:
Soils Drainage:
Moderate to poorly drained
Sub-Surface Drainage: Moderate to poorly drained
Sun Exposure:
Full sun to partial shade
Habitat Type:
Coastal bluffs and headlands, heaths and oldfield habitat.
Found along streams, lakeshores, coasts, bogs, or muskeg
margins and within conifer forests
Slopes:
Yes
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APU’TAM’KIE’JIT Eastern Larch (Tamarack) Larix laricina
Eastern Larch Favourable Conditions:
Soils Drainage:
Most commonly wet/moist organic soils, such as sphagnum
or woody peat, especially nutrient-poor, acid peatlands
Sub-Surface Drainage: Poorly drained
Sun Exposure:
Full sun, shade intolerant: tends to cast light shade and
have a dense undergrowth of shrubs
Habitat Type:
Wet/moist, poorly drained sites such as swamps, bogs,
muskeg, stream, lake, and swamp edges and occasionally
uplands. Pioneer species, often first tree to invade open
bogs and burned peatlands, first tree to pioneer floating
sphagnum mats
Slopes:
N/A
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