PROVINCIAL LIST - Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre

Figure 4. Looking north from the tundra remnant at the summit of Arctic Butte, six km east of Misaw Lake,
SK. Note granitic boulders with crustose lichen cover and terricolous cover of Cladonia, and Stereocaulon
mixed with Loiseleuria procumbens, a dwarf shrub common on the continuous tundra 150 km north in
Nunavut. Photo courtesy of Robert A. Wright.
Lowland forests are characteristically very open with a predominant ground cover of
Sphagnum mosses and other bryophytes, although lichens are sometimes an important
component of the ground and epiphytic flora in peatlands (Figure 5).
Figure 5. Icmadophila ericetorum (known locally as Fairy Puke) on the side of a Sphagnum hummock in a
black spruce- Sphagnum bog. Note foliage of Ledum groenlandicum, an ericaceous shrub. Photo courtesy of
Robert A. Wright.