Maritime Quillwort, Isoetes maritima (Isoetaceae), is reported from a singl
e location in southeastern Yukon Territory and is a new record for the flor
a of the Territory. The Yukon I. maritima population is compared to that of
I. echinospora, also known from only one Yukon location. Isoetes maritima
may have reached here as populations migrating eastward across the Yukon Ri
ver watershed from the Beringian glacial refugium before coastal areas of n
orthern British Columbia and adjacent southern Alaska had emerged from the
Wisconsinan Cordilleran Ice Sheet. If so, isolated I. maritima populations
could be expected at floristically diverse aquatic sites elsewhere along th
e Yukon River watershed.