Talk:List of inventoried conifers in Canada

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Notes

Note to self about my preferred text for various genera: Alaska cedar, juniper, larch, spruce, pine, Douglas fir, thuja cedar, hemlock. - Dank (push to talk) 14:31, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'll be saying this at WP:FLC as well: I concede that Canada doesn't have a monopoly on forest inventories ... so if someone wants to propose and defend alternative inventories, I have no problem with that. I'd prefer to keep the current page title, but as a fall-back position, if necessary, the page could have a title that focuses only on Canada's national forest inventory of native trees. - Dank (push to talk) 19:16, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Most of the images were first copied by User:Johnboddie from Commons to his sandbox. - Dank (push to talk) 03:51, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The public domain license for the USDA Plants Database is at https://plants.usda.gov/assets/docs/PLANTS_Help_Document_2022.pdf. Reproduction guidelines for the Canadian tree inventory are available at https://nfi.nfis.org/en/notices; the tree species list is currently available at https://nfi.nfis.org/en/general. - Dank (push to talk) 03:18, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In the "uses" paragraph of the lead section, also see the linked articles for attribution. - Dank (push to talk) 14:40, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Alphanumeric symbols in the USDA Plants Database: CANO9 JUSC2 PIBA2 PIFL2 PIMO3 TABR2 THOC2. - Dank (push to talk) 21:59, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Pinus albicaulis is the only threatened species in this list (and I'd rather not mention that because that classification doesn't seem well-supported; this page lists it as just a candidate to be added to a threatened list). - Dank (push to talk) 01:01, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are two things that people may ask for at WP:FLC that I'm going to resist (strongly): descriptions and pests, which the sources call "damaging agents". Each article for these trees has a description section that's almost always named "Description" and almost always the first section in the article; see for instance Picea sitchensis#Description. Clearly, that's not something that could be successfully and accurately summarized to fit into the space allotted here. There's so much to say about "damaging agents" that I'm going to do a separate list for that, focused to some extent on the agents rather than the trees. - Dank (push to talk) 16:07, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Image licenses: 70 labeled as own work (including the 3 from Laval University), 38 as Flickrbot, 16 as US government public domain, and one as iNaturalistbot. - Dank (push to talk) 23:56, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The liming data is labeled "CaCO3" in the USDA Plants Database, referring to a range of compounds, not just calcium carbonate. - Dank (push to talk) 03:45, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting suggesting

Put the vernacular name of the genus in brackets under the genus name, rather than as text in an additional row. Lavateraguy (talk) 10:39, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

() or []? - Dank (push to talk) 14:36, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You've used () for species vernacular names. I'd be consistent and use the same for genus vernacular names. Lavateraguy (talk) 11:26, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. - Dank (push to talk) 21:52, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Growth requirements

This is the raw data (public domain, as always) on growth requirements from the the USDA Plants database, copied yesterday. I'm listing this because it's possible people will want to organize the data in some different way in the future. - Dank (push to talk) 13:32, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	coar	fine	medi	anae	CaCO3	cold	drou	fert	fire	fros	hedg	mois	pH	pH	plan	plan	prec	prec	root	sali	shad	temp
abam	Yes	Yes	Yes	None	Low	Yes	Low	Low	None	90	None	Medium	6.0	3.3	700	300	260	38	36	None	Tolerant	-28
abba	Yes	Yes	Yes	None	Low	Yes	Low	Medium	Low	80	Low	Medium	6.0	4.0	1200	300	60	13	20	None	Tolerant	-43
abgr	Yes	No	Yes	Low	Low	Yes	Medium	Medium	High	60	Low	Medium	7.5	4.5	1200	300	100	11	20	None	Tolerant	-33
abla	Yes	No	Yes	None	Low	Yes	Low	Medium	Low	120	Low	Medium	6.5	4.0	1200	300	150	20	40	None	Tolerant	-51
cano9	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low	None	Yes	Low	Low	Low	111	None	Medium	7.0	5.5	700	300	100	45	24	None	Tolerant	-22
jusc2	Yes	No	Yes	None	High	Yes	High	Low	Low	120	Medium	Low	8.5	5.0	1200	300	26	9	20	Low	Intolerant	-38
juvi	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low	High	Yes	High	Low	Low	140	Medium	Low	8.0	4.7	1200	300	68	15	20	Low	Intermediate	-43
lala	Yes	No	Yes	Low	Low	Yes	Low	Low	None	73	None	Medium	6.5	5.5	1200	430	55	7	12	Low	Intolerant	-79
laly	Yes	No	Yes	None	None	No	High	Low	Low	90	None	Low	5.6	3.9	1200	430	95	26	36	None	Intolerant	-58
laoc	Yes	No	Yes	None	Low	Yes	Low	Low	Low	60	None	Low	7.0	6.0	1200	430	50	13	20	None	Intolerant	-43
pien	No	Yes	Yes	None	High	No	Low	Low	Low	30	Low	Medium	8.0	6.0	700	300	160	21	20	None	Tolerant	-50
pigl	Yes	Yes	Yes	None	Low	Yes	High	High	Low	60	Low	Medium	8.2	4.0	700	300	50	7	30	Medium	Intermediate	-65
pima	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low	Low	Yes	Low	Medium	None	60	Low	High	6.5	4.7	700	300	60	5	16	None	Tolerant	-79
piru	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low	Low	No	Medium	Medium	None	90	None	Medium	5.8	4.0	700	300	52	28	13	None	Tolerant	-47
pisi	Yes	No	Yes	Low	Medium	No	Low	High	None	111	None	Medium	5.7	3.9	700	300	225	22	30	None	Tolerant	-33
piba2	Yes	Yes	Yes	None	Low	Yes	Low	Low	None	50	None	Low	8.2	6.0	1200	430	35	15	20	Low	Intolerant	-53
pico	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low	High	Yes	Low	Medium	Low	100	Medium	Medium	7.5	6.2	700	430	25	18	20	None	Intolerant	-70
pipo	Yes	No	Yes	None	Low	Yes	High	Low	High	150	Low	Medium	9.0	5.0	1200	430	25	15	20	Medium	Intolerant	-36
pire	Yes	No	Yes	None	None	Yes	Low	Low	Low	80	None	Low	6.0	4.5	1200	430	60	15	40	None	Intolerant	-43
piri	Yes	No	Yes	Low	Low	Yes	Medium	Low	Low	112	None	Low	5.1	3.5	1200	430	56	37	20	None	Intolerant	-43
pial	Yes	No	Yes	None	Low	Yes	High	Low	None	90	None	Medium	8.0	4.8	430	300	72	18	16	None	Intermediate	-58
pifl2	No	No	Yes	None	Medium	Yes	High	Low	Low	90	None	Low	6.5	5.7	1200	430	70	20	20	None	Intolerant	-43
pimo3	Yes	No	Yes	None	Medium	Yes	Low	Medium	Low	120	Medium	Medium	7.0	5.5	1200	430	30	15	40	None	Intermediate	-33
pist	No	No	Yes	None	None	Yes	None	Low	None	90	None	Medium	6.5	4.0	1200	430	80	20	40	Low	Intermediate	-33
psme	Yes	No	Yes	Low	Low	Yes	Low	Medium	Low	130	Low	Medium	7.5	5.0	1200	300	100	18	26	Low	Intermediate	-33
tabr2	No	No	Yes	None	Low	Yes	Medium	High	Low	140	High	Low	7.5	6.2	700	300	60	24	36	None	Tolerant	-18
thoc2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Medium	High	Yes	Low	Medium	Low	100	High	Medium	7.0	5.2	1200	300	55	35	30	Medium	Intermediate	-33
thpl	No	No	Yes	None	Medium	Yes	Low	Medium	Low	180	Low	Medium	7.1	5.1	1200	300	120	30	30	None	Tolerant	-33
tsca	Yes	No	Yes	None	None	Yes	Low	Medium	Medium	80	High	Medium	5.7	4.2	1200	300	55	32	28	None	Tolerant	-33
tshe	No	No	Yes	None	None	Yes	Low	Medium	Low	150	Low	Medium	6.0	4.5	1200	300	150	38	36	None	Tolerant	-23
tsme	Yes	No	No	None	Low	Yes	Low	Medium	Low	160	Low	High	7.3	4.5	1200	300	140	42	40	None	Tolerant	-18