Summary
Included here is an extensive belt across Canada and Alaska south of the Arctic BioProvince but excluding the Rocky Mountains. In the south it includes most of the US state of Maine and the northern parts of Vermont, Michigan and Minnesota.
Of the endemic vascular and near endmic vascular plants so far recorded there are 46 species in 29 genera and 12 families but no endemic genera.
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