Editing Isle Royale National Park (section)

===Flora===
According to the [[A. W. Kuchler]] U.S. [[Potential natural vegetation]] Types, Isle Royale National Park has a Great Lakes [[Spruce]]/[[Fir]] (''93'') potential vegetation type and a Northern [[Conifer]] Forest (''22'') potential vegetation form.<ref name="Conservation Biology Institute">{{cite web |title=U.S. Potential Natural Vegetation, Original Kuchler Types, v2.0 (Spatially Adjusted to Correct Geometric Distortions) |publisher=[[Data Basin]] |url=https://databasin.org/datasets/1c7a301c8e6843f2b4fe63fdb3a9fe39 |access-date=2019-07-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703145441/https://databasin.org/datasets/1c7a301c8e6843f2b4fe63fdb3a9fe39 |archive-date=July 3, 2019}}</ref>

The predominant floral habitats of Isle Royale are within the [[Laurentian Mixed Forest Province]]. The area is a [[temperate broadleaf and mixed forests]] [[biome]] transition zone between the true [[Taiga|boreal forest]] to the north and [[Big Woods]] to the south, with characteristics of each. It has areas of both broadleaf and [[Pinophyta|conifer]] forest cover, and bodies of water ranging from conifer bogs to swamps.<ref>{{cite web |year=2007 |title=Laurentian Mixed Forest Province |work=Ecological Classification System |publisher=Minnesota Department of Natural Resources |url=http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ecs/212/index.html |access-date=September 21, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520001754/http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ecs/212/index.html |archive-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref>

Conifers include [[jack pine]]s (''Pinus banksiana''), [[black spruce|black]] and [[Picea glauca|white spruces]] (''Picea mariana'' and ''Picea glauca''), [[balsam fir]]s (''Abies balsamea''), and [[eastern redcedar]]s (''Juniperus virginiana'').

[[Deciduous]] trees include [[quaking aspen]]s (''Populus tremuloides''), [[red oak]]s (''Quercus rubra''), [[paper birch]]es (''Betula papyrifera''), [[American mountain ash]] (''Sorbus americana''), [[red maple]]s (''Acer rubrum''), [[sugar maple]]s (''Acer saccharum''), and [[mountain maples]] (''Acer spicatum'').<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gibbon |first1=Guy E. |last2=Johnson |first2=Craig M. |last3=Hobbes |first3=Elizabeth |title=Chapter 3: Minnesota's Environment and Native American Culture History |work=A Predictive Model of Precontact Archaeological Site Location for the State of Minnesota |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |year=2000 |url=http://www.mnmodel.dot.state.mn.us/chapters/chapter3.htm#ch321 |access-date=August 22, 2007  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818011134/http://www.mnmodel.dot.state.mn.us/chapters/chapter3.htm#ch321 |archive-date=August 18, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=Heinselman>{{cite book |last=Heinselman |first=Miron |title=The Boundary Waters Wilderness Ecosystem |place=Minneapolis |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |year=1996 |pages=16–31 |isbn=0-8166-2804-1}}.</ref> There are over 600 species of flowering plants found in Isle Royale National Park such as wild sarsaparilla, marsh-marigold, wood lily and prickly wild rose.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Flowering Plants - Isle Royale National Park (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/isro/learn/nature/flowering-plants.htm |url-status=live |access-date=2021-11-11 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en |archive-date=November 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111203441/https://www.nps.gov/isro/learn/nature/flowering-plants.htm }}</ref>