Taxus canadensisMarshall

Canada yew

WFO wfo-0000459412 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Taxus canadensis, photographed by Pierre Cartier
fig. a Pierre Cartier, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205006314
Taxus canadensis, photographed by Nick Kleinschmidt
fig. b Nick Kleinschmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202830105
Taxus canadensis, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. c Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203962402
Taxus canadensis, photographed by Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng.
fig. d Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198703350
Taxus canadensis, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. e Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205771522
Taxus canadensis, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. f Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202452990
Taxus canadensis, photographed by Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng.
fig. g Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202479168
Taxus canadensis, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. h Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201418776

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Taxus baccata subsp. canadensis (Marshall) Pilg.
  • Taxus baccata subsp. minor (Michx.) Voss
  • Taxus baccata var. adpressa Carrière
  • Taxus baccata var. canadensis (Marshall) A.Gray
  • Taxus baccata var. minor Michx.
  • Taxus baccata var. procumbens Loudon
  • Taxus canadensis f. stricta (L.H.Bailey) Rehder
  • Taxus canadensis var. adpressa (Carrière) Spjut
  • Taxus canadensis var. minor (Michx.) Spjut
  • Taxus canadensis var. stricta L.H.Bailey
  • Taxus minor (Michx.) Britton ex Small & Vail
  • Taxus minor (Michx.) Britton
  • Taxus procumbens Lodd. ex Loudon

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.