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While a variety of theories have been postulated for the name of Canada, its origin is now accepted as coming from the Laurentian language word kanata, meaning 'village' or 'settlement'. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona. Cartier later used the word Canada to refer not only to that particular village but to the entire area subject to Donnacona (the chief at Stadacona); by 1545, European books and maps had begun referring to this small region along the Saint Lawrence River as Canada.
From the 16th to the early 18th century, Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the Saint Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada. These two colonies were collectively named the Canadas until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841.
29 branches of this group, most-observed first
horned dandelion
speciesTaraxacum ceratophorum
Lean dandelion
speciesTaraxacum macilentum
Taraxacum macroceras
speciesTaraxacum macroceras
Taraxacum longicorne
speciesTaraxacum longicorne
Taraxacum albescens
speciesTaraxacum albescens
California dandelion
speciesTaraxacum californicum
Taraxacum acricorne
speciesTaraxacum acricorne
Taraxacum lateritium
speciesTaraxacum lateritium
Double-horn dandelion
speciesTaraxacum bicorne
St. Lawrence Dandelion
speciesTaraxacum laurentianum
Taraxacum taimyrense
speciesTaraxacum taimyrense
Taraxacum alpicola
speciesTaraxacum alpicola
Taraxacum perlatescens
speciesTaraxacum perlatescens
Taraxacum brachyceras
speciesTaraxacum brachyceras
Taraxacum norvegicum
speciesTaraxacum norvegicum
Wool-bearing Dandelion
speciesTaraxacum eriophorum
Taraxacum hjeltii
speciesTaraxacum hjeltii
Taraxacum andersonii
speciesTaraxacum andersonii
Taraxacum platycranum
speciesTaraxacum platycranum
Taraxacum pingue
speciesTaraxacum pingue
Taraxacum flavovirens
speciesTaraxacum flavovirens
Taraxacum collariatum
speciesTaraxacum collariatum
Taraxacum vulcanorum
speciesTaraxacum vulcanorum
Taraxacum roborovskyi
speciesTaraxacum roborovskyi
Taraxacum qirae
speciesTaraxacum qirae
Taraxacum aleurodes
speciesTaraxacum aleurodes
Taraxacum cornutum
speciesTaraxacum cornutum
Taraxacum stanjukoviczii
speciesTaraxacum stanjukoviczii
Taraxacum tornense
speciesTaraxacum tornense
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 967534.