Plants of the Credit River Watershed Plants of the Credit Quick Facts 1255 Recorded species 780 Native species 5 Species at Risk nationally ( COSEWIC ) 8 Species at Risk provincially (COSSARO) 305 Species considered rare in the Greater Toronto Area 402 Species considered rare in the Credit River watershed The list of the vascular plants of the Credit River watershed is compiled from existing publications and from the records of local naturalists and botanists. The complete list includes 1,255 species of plants in the following groups: Aquatic Flowering Plants Ferns Fern Allies Flowering Plants Gramminoid Herbaceous Vines Shrubs Trees Woody Vine Back to About Natural Heritage Aquatic Flowering Plants Ferns Fern Allies Nymphaea odorata- white water lily A non-woody, broad-leaved plant living or growing in water. Fiddleheads (left) Polystichum acrostichoides Christmas fern (right) A plant with leaf-like fronds that reproduces using spores. Lycopodiaceae- Club Mosses A plant that reproduces using spores that do not have fronds, including clubmosses and horsetails. Flowering Plants Gramminoid Herbaceous Vines Rudbeckia hirta - Black-eyed Susan Other plants include: Trillium grandiflorum- White Trillium Erythronium americanum - Dogtooth Violets A non-woody, broad-leaved plant or herb. Carex species sedge Non-woody, narrow-leaved plants, including grasses, sedges and rushes. Echinocystis lobata - Cucumber Vine A non-woody plant with trailing stems. Shrubs Trees Woody Vine A multi-stemmed woody plant, usually shorter than a tree. Pinus strobus - White Pine A woody plant usually with a single stem which can reach heights of several metres. Parthenocissus inserta - Virgina Creeper A woody plant with trailing stems.                                                                   TOP