The Vascular Flora of Sebert Property, Laporte County, Indiana (original) (raw)
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Studies in the vascular flora of the southeastern United States. IX
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As part of ongoing work on the Flora of the Southeastern United States (Weakley & Southeastern Flora Team 2022a) and related projects, as well as for general floristic, conservation, and scientific work in eastern North America, it is essential to document taxonomic and nomenclatural changes and significant distribution records. Here we describe three new species (in Rhynchospora, Sabulina, and Solidago), describe a new section (in Trichostema), make new combinations to treat taxa at appropriate ranks in appropriate genera and with appropriate nomenclatural application based on types (in Lycopodioides, Moeroris, Morella, Nellica, Tamala, and Trichostema), and propose the lumping of two species, resulting in a change in name and nativity status (in Sisyrinchium). These new combinations (rank changes, or generic transfers to apply newly accepted generic concepts to taxa that do not have corresponding available names at the appropriate rank) are needed to accurately reflect current taxonomic understanding of the regional flora. In the course of doing so, we discuss and address various nomenclatural issues, including typifications, and clarify characters and identification of difficult groups (providing new keys) in the regional flora. We also report significant new distribution and naturalization records in many genera, in New Jersey (taxa in the genera
Additions to the flora of Ginn Woods, Delaware County, Indiana
Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, 2004
Ginn Woods, a typical flatwoods of the Bluffton Till Plain Section of the Central Till Plain Natural Region, is a 65 ha tract of woodland owned by Ball State University. The woods lies in the northwest corner of Delaware County, Indiana. This paper documents 69 additional vascular taxa. representing 44 genera in 23 families, within Ginn Woods. Of the 69 species, 38 are recorded for the first time in Delaware County and nine are naturalized, non-native (exotic) species. The results of this studs combined with the one conducted in 1997 provided the following information. Ginn Woods contains a total of 452 taxa of vascular plants representing 267 genera in 99 families. A total of 164 species were reported for the first time from Delaware County. Of the 436 angiosperms listed, 67. or approximately 15 c f. were non-native or exotic species. The flora of Ginn Woods is characteristic of a typical old-grow th beechmaple forest in the American Midwest. The species documented at Ginn Woods were compared to the inventories of four other forests in east-central Indiana, e.g., Botany Glen, Grant County, Fogwell Forest Nature Preserve, Allen County, Mounds State Park, Madison County, and Wilbur Wright Fish and Wildlife Area, Henry County. This comparison indicated that Ginn Woods contained 17 species not found in these other forests. Among others, this list includes Agastache scrophulariaefolia, Aristolochia serpentaria, Carya laciniosa, Hamamelis virginiana, Hybanthus concolor, Ilex verticillata, Lobelia cardinalis, Huperzia lucidula, Lycopus virginicus, Triosteum aurantiacum, Triphora tricmthophora, and Uhints thoniasii. Keywords: County records-vascular plants, Delaware County flora, Indiana vascular plant records, flatwood forest Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle Family) Lonicera prolifera (Kirchn.) Booth ex Rehder;
The Vascular Flora and Plant Communities of the Bennett Wetland Complex in Henry County, Indiana
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Studies in the vascular flora of the southeastern United States: V
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The Vascular Flora of the J.T. Nickel Family Nature and Wildlife Preserve, Cherokee County, Oklahoma
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This paper reports the results of an inventory of the vascular plants at the J. T. Nickel Family Nature and Wildlife Preserve in northeastern Oklahoma. A total of 597 taxa of vascular plants in 357 genera and 118 families were collected. The most species were collected from the families Asteraceae (87), Poaceae (58), and Fabaceae (43). One hundred and seventy-three species were annuals, five were biennials, and 418 were perennials. Ninety-one species of woody plants were present. Seventy-eight exotic species were collected representing 13.2% of the flora. Fifteen species tracked by the Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory were found. This study reports the first records for Glyceria acutiflora and Microstegium vimineum (Poaceae) in Oklahoma.
Vascular flora of a site along the Arkansas River, Pawnee County, Oklahoma
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Additions to the Flora of Garvin County, Oklahoma: Including a Complete Vascular Plant Checklist
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A species list created from the Oklahoma Vascular Plants Database (OVPD) indicated that Garvin County, Oklahoma had been neglected by botanists. Our objective was to collect all vascular plant species encountered during three growing seasons to increase our botanical knowledge of the county. A total of 387 species were collected; 174 of these species had not been previously recorded for Garvin County in the OVPD. As a result, 14 families and 62 genera were added to the known flora of Garvin County. The majority of the species collected during this survey are assigned to five families of flowering plants: Poaceae (70 species), Asteraceae (63), Fabaceae (39), Cyperaceae (17), and Euphorbiaceae (16). Forty eight species (representing 13% of the taxa collected during this study) were not native to the United States; the families Poaceae and Fabaceae (with 18 and 10 species, respectively) exhibited the greatest number of introduced species collected in this survey. Five taxa on the Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory working list of rare Oklahoma plants were encountered. This collection effort increased the total number of vascular plant species recorded in the Oklahoma Vascular Plants Database for Garvin County to 628 species.