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Northwest Territories
Vegetation types
Cotton grass tundra (low arctic)
Sparsely vegetated (high arctic) - Saxifrage and arctic
willows
Patchy vegetation (mid arctic) -arctic poppy and
draba
spp.
Open lichen - black spruce forest (subarctic)
Closed canopy coniferous forest (boreal)
Closed canopy broadleaf forest (boreal)
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