mixedwood

To the south, in the Algonquin area, the mixedwood forest is characterized by stands of sugar maple (Acer saccharum), yellow birch, eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) and eastern white pine, with beech (Fagus grandifolia) appearing on warmer sites.

Eastern forest-boreal transition 2007

The closed mixedwood forests of this ecoregion are strongly influenced by a maritime climate where warm summers allow for good growth of hardwoods, which are often mixed with red spruce (Picea rubens) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea).

Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests 2007

The original mixedwood forest of PEI was characterized by red oak (Quercus rubra), sugar maple, yellow birch and beech while abandoned fields are returning to forests of white spruce (P. glauca).

Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests 2007

Upland and foothills areas, and southern regions are often better drained, are warmer, and support mixedwood forests characterized by white and black spruce (Picea glauca), lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), tamarack (Larix laricina), white birch (Betula spp.), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera).

Northwest Territories taiga 2007