Flora of Magadan

Artemisia senjavinensis, the arctic wormwood, is a rare Arctic species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It has been found only on the Seward Peninsula on the Alaskan side of the Bering Strait and on the Chukotka (Chukchi) Peninsula on the Russian side. Artemisia senjavinensis is a shrub up to 90 cm (3 feet) tall, with many stems densely clumped together. Leaves are gray-green, woolly, mostly in rosettes close to the ground. There are many small yellow or tan flower heads. The species grows at low elevations near the shore.

Leontopodium kamtschaticum is a species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.

Noccaeopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It includes a single species, Noccaeopsis kamtschatica, which is endemic to the Kamchatka Peninsula and Commander Islands in the Russian Far East.

Noccaeopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It includes a single species, Noccaeopsis kamtschatica, which is endemic to the Kamchatka Peninsula and Commander Islands in the Russian Far East.

Magadania is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. Its native range is the Russian Far East.

Artemisia globularia, the purple wormwood, is a rare Asian and North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Alaska, Yukon Territory, and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of Russia.

× Pucciphippsia is a nothogenus of Arctic plants in the grass family, reported from Greenland, Svalbard, and Magadan. The nothogenus is derived from a hybridization between Phippsia and Puccinellia. Species × Pucciphippsia czukczorum Tzvelev - Magadan Oblast (part of the Russian Federation) × Pucciphippsia vacillans (Th.Fr.) Tzvelev - Greenland (part of Denmark), Svalbard (part of Norway)

Koenigia alaskana (synonym Aconogonon alaskanum, Persicaria alpina) is an Asian and North American species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family known by the common names Alaska wild-rhubarb and alpine knotweed.

Braya thorild-wulffii, the Greenland northern rockcress, is a plant species native to Greenland, Nunavut the Canadian Northwest Territories, and from the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of eastern Russia. Braya thorild-wulffii is an herb up to 10 cm tall, sometimes hairy, sometimes not. Leaves are spatula-shaped, up to 4 cm long. Flowers are white to purplish, up to 10 mm in diameter. Fruits spherical or egg-shaped, up to 10 mm in diameter.

Rumex beringensis is a flowering plant species in the family Polygonaceae.

Erigeron hyperboreus is a rare Arctic species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name tundra fleabane. It has been found only in arctic tundra in Alaska, Yukon, and Northwest Territories.

× Arctodupontia is a nothogenus of Arctic and Subarctic plants in the grass family. The only known nothospecies is × Arctodupontia scleroclada, found in the colder regions of Eurasia and North America (Nunavut, Svalbard, Magadan, northern European Russia). It is believed to have originated as a hybrid of two other arctic grasses: Arctophila fulva × Dupontia fisheri.

Salix alexii-skvortzovii is a species of willow native to eastern Asia.

Salix nakamurana (Japanese: renge-iwa-yanagi) is a rare species of willow native to alpine slopes of central Japan. It is a deciduous small prostrate shrub.

Braya pilosa is a long-lived perennial flowering plant of the mustard family known by the common name hairy braya. It was first found by Sir John Richardson in 1826 during an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. It wasn't found for 154 years, between 1850 and 2004.

Hylotelephium cyaneum (syn. Sedum cyaneum), commonly known as the azure stonecrop, is a perennial mat-forming succulent groundcover plant of the family Crassulaceae. Its native range is in eastern Siberia and Russian Far East.

Cardamine digitata, commonly known as Richardson's bittercress, is an ornamental species of plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is native to Alaska and Canada.

Claytonia sarmentosa is a species of flowering plant in the genus Claytonia, which is indigenous to the mountains of the Lake Baikal region and eastern Siberia and northwestern North America including Alaska, Yukon and northern British Columbia. A widespread species of the mountain chains of Asia and North America, Claytonia sarmentosa has been subject of differing taxonomic opinions with problematic confusion with Claytonia arctica and C. scammaniana. A taxonomic revision including an analysis of the Udokan Mountains population and comparison with Alaskan material was published in 2006.

Endocellion glaciale is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native from central Siberia to the northern Russian Far East. It was first described by Carl Friedrich von Ledebour in 1845 as Nardosmia glacialis.

Carex stenantha is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to far eastern parts of Russia and parts of Japan.

Pennellianthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae. It only contains one known species, Pennellianthus frutescens (Lamb.) Crosswh. The genus is within the Tribe Cheloneae along with Penstemon, from which Pennellianthus was separated from. Its native range is Russian Far East (within the regions of Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, the Kuril Islands, Magadan, Sakhalin) and also Japan. The genus name of Pennellia is in honour of Francis W. Pennell (1886–1952), an American botanist best known for his studies of the Scrophulariaceae. The Latin specific epithet of

Claytonia arctica, the Arctic spring beauty, is a species of flowering plant native to Siberia including the Taimyr Peninsula and Wrangel Island and eastward to the Aleutians and Bering Sea islands of Alaska. A plant species of the circumpolar Arctic, it has been confused with Claytonia sarmentosa and C. scammaniana. A taxonomic revision including a lectotypification of Claytonia arctica was published in 2006.

Wilhelmsia is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. It contains only one species, Wilhelmsia physodes, native to Alaska, northern Canada (Yukon and Northwest Territories), and Russia. Wilhelmsia physodes is distinctive in the family because of its large, inflated ovary that develops into a round, purple capsule up to 10 mm in diameter, partially septate (divided inside) into 3 compartments, each with 2 teeth on the outside. The plant is a perennial herb spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Stems are generally prostrated except for the upright flowering stalk.

Trautvetteria palmata is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to regions from the Russian Far East to Japan. It was first described by André Michaux in 1803 as Cimicifuga palmata.

Sorbaria grandiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. A perennial shrub reaching 3 ft (1 m), it is hardy in USDA zones 5 through 7, and is considered useful in the garden as it flowers in July when other shrubs are not in bloom. Care must be taken lest it become invasive.

Carex bonanzensis, the Yukon sedge, or the bonanza sedge, is a species of sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It was described by Nathaniel Lord Britton in 1901.

Silene sorensenis, the three-flowered campion or Sorensen's catchfly, is a species of plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is found in the tundra of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Northern Russian Far East and Greenland. This species was named after Danish botanist Thorvald Sørensen (1902–1973).

Tripleurospermum subpolare is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Asteraceae. Its native range is Northern and Northeastern Europe to the northern Russian Far East.

Silene stenophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. Commonly called narrow-leafed campion, it is a species in the genus Silene. It grows in the Arctic tundra of far eastern Siberia and the mountains of northern Japan. Frozen samples, estimated via radiocarbon dating to be around 32,000 years old, were discovered in the same area as current living specimens and, in 2012, a team of scientists successfully regenerated a plant from the samples.

Sorbus sambucifolia is a species of rowan native to Korea, northern and central Japan, Russian Far East and Alaska.