Presented at Botany 2009, Snowbird, Utah.

1. Botany Under the Midnight Sun: Floristic Discoveries on Victoria Island, Nunavut, Canada Jeffery M. Saarela, Laurie C. Consaul, Roger D. Bull and Lynn Gillespie Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence

3. Long History of Arctic Plant Exploration Norwegion Polar Expedition in the Fram 1898-1902 Herman G. Simmons collections

5. A.E. Porsild –1955, 1957, 1980 (Porsild & Cody) Major Publications in North American Arctic Botany

7. But there is no flora for *just* the Arctic regions of Canada

8. ca. 800 in the Canadian Arctic A First Flora of the Canadian Arctic • all vascular plants above treeline in Canada - N Yukon - Northwest Territories - Nunavut - N Quebec - N Newfoundland & Labrador Long Term Goal

9. Comprehensive baseline floristic data for long-term climate change studies Many plant species are expected to migrate N as temperature increases

10. DNA Barcoding the Canadian Arctic Flora Carex membranacea

11. Purple reedgrass Calamagrostis purpurascens subsp. arctica TAXONOMIC STUDIES ON ARCTIC GRASSES & SEDGES

12. Collections and Collection Gaps Baffin I Devon I Ellesmere I

13. Prince Patrick I Baffin I Banks I Melville I Cambridge Bay Victoria I

14. Jeff Roger Lynn Laurie Saarela Bull Gillespie Consaul Intrepid Arctic Botanists

15. Camp 1 near Oterkvik Point, Victoria Island

16. Camp 2 - Johansen Bay

17. Camp 3 – Sinclair Creek Chamerion latifolium River Beauty – Arctic fireweed

18. We explore as many different habitats as possible to maximize plant diversity

19. sorting pressing & drying plant collections in the field

20. Dry and Mesic Tundra Habitats Salix arctica Pedicularis lanata

22. Beach sandwort Sea greens (Honckenya peploides) Sea-lungwort Seaside bluebells ( Mertensia maritima) Saltmarsh sandwort (Stellaria humifusa) Coastal Habitat

23. Mastodon flower Tephroseris palustris subsp. congestus

24. River habitat collecting willows

25. River habitat Kotzebue's grass-of- Parnassus Parnassia kotzebuei sandy river bank

26. Mare’s tail Hippuris lanceolata AQUATIC & SEDGE WETLAND HABITATS Sedges Carex capillaris subsp . fuscidula

27. Pingo Habitat

28. • over 1100 collections • increased # of known species on Victoria Island from 231 to 261 species • we collected some 202 species  1 species new to Canada  4 taxa new to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (northern range extensions)  7 species new to the western Arctic Archipelago  5 species new to Victoria Island  20 species new to SW Victoria Island  many 2 nd and 3 rd records for Victoria Island Significant New Information on the Arctic Flora

29. Stuckenia subretusa (fide Pan Arctic Flora project) A New Species for Canada pondweed

30. Bog Rosemary Andromeda polifolia NEW TO THE CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO ALSO NEW TO CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO Draba pilosa (Brassicaceae) Arenaria longipedulculata (Caryophyllaceae) Silene uralensis subsp. uralensis (Caryophyllaceae)

31. Northern coralroot orchid Corallorhiza trifida 1st record of orchid from W Arctic Is. 2 nd record for Arctic Archipelago

32. Common butterwort ( Pinguicula vulgaris ) • insectivorous plant • first record on W Arctic Islands

33. Koenigia Koenigia islandica annual plant first record in W Arctic islands

34. new localities for rare Pygmy Aster Symphiotrichon pygmaeum *

35. Puccinellia banksiensis Consaul, 2008 Banks Island Alkaligrass multiple new localities on SW Victoria Island

36. First Records for Victoria Island Poaceae Calamagrostis stricta Deschampsia sukatschewii Puccinellia banksiensis Puccinellia tenella Cyperaceae Carex bicolor

37. First records for southwestern Victoria Island: Armeria scabra Betula glandulosa Carex aquatilis var. minor Carex saxatilis Carex subspathacea Carex glacialis Deschampsia brevifolia Empetrum nigrum Epilobium arcticum Equisetum arvense Erigeron compositus Eriophorum vaginatum Juncus arcticus Juncus biglumis Juncus castaneus Kobresia sibirica Kobresia simpliciuscula Luzula confusa Luzula nivalis Potentilla pulchella

38. Tuktut Nogait National Park of Canada

39. Balsam poplar ( Populus balsaminfera ) well above treeline

40. Thank you