Vegetation types in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut

Brunisolic Turbic Cryosol associated with earth-hummock-covered till landscape.

Closed canopy broadleaf forest (boreal)

Closed canopy coniferous forest (boreal)

Sparsely vegetated (high arctic) - Saxifrage and arctic willows

Open lichen - black spruce forest (subarctic)

Cotton grass tundra (low arctic)

Patchy vegetation (mid arctic) -arctic poppy and <i>draba spp.</i>