NATIVE FLOWERING PLANT SPECIES NEW OR OTHERWISE SIGNIFICANT IN KENTUCKY

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by  Robert F C Naczi

NEW
FLOWERING PLANT OR
NATIVE
SPECIES
KENTUCKY
OTHERWISE
SIGNIFICANT
IN
Robert F.CNaczi Ronald L.Jones,
F.Joseph Metzmeier,
Claude Herbarium
E.Phillips
---
Mark
Gorton,
A.
and
ent of Agriculture Natural Res ources
Weckman
and Timothy
J.
Department
of Biological Sciences
[email protected]
[email protected]
ABSTRACl
ar plant.,
all
the
fir
SiriSSS:
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C. var. C.
huxbaumii and Cseona.
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INTRODUCTION
Recent field and herbarium work have resuhed in the discovery of several spe-
new
Kentucky These
cies of native flowering plants to or very rare in the state.
and
findings will update Kentucky distribution records as listed by Beal Thieret
Browne and Athey and Medley Kentucky status-
rarity
986), (1992), (1993).
(f
KSNPC
Special Concern, Threatened, Endangered, or Historical, based on
is
Additional information on Clinton County records provided
(2000, 2001).
is
on Browne
by Gorton Terminology physiographic regions based
(2000). for
is
Holmgren
and Athey and herbarium abbreviations follow et (1990).
(1992), al.
NEW
KENTUCKY
TAXA OR OTHERWISE SIGNIFICANT FOR
Bromus nottowayanus Fernald (POACEAE). Though Kentucky well within
is
the geographic range of this species as provided by Pavlick (1995), this record is
Almost Kentucky
apparently the first published for the state. certainly, earlier
woodland
collections exist for this grass.
(CYPERACEAE).
Carex buxbaumii Wahlenb. This second county Ken-
the in
is
tucky documented for this species. Earher records for this species are from
Baliard County, in the westernmost portion of Kentucky, in the Coastal Plain
region (Medley 1993). These records are over 20 years old, and the species cur-
is
Kentucky
rently listed in as Historical. This collection therefore provides a
redocumentation of the species for the state, and is also the first record from the
Mississippian Plateau region of the state. Kentucky near the southern limit
is
this species; east of the Mississippi River, ranges south North Carohna
ol to
it
&
and Ten nessee (Radford 1968; Gleason Cronquist Chester
et al. 1991; et al. 1993).
(CYPERACEAE).
Carex corrugata Fernald These specimens
represent the
first
record of the species from the state. Kentucky the northern limit of this sedge,
is
common
which
most on
river loodplains in the Coastal Plain of the south-
is f
eastern U.S.A. (Naczi 1992). Most of the collections cited here are from along
sites
Ohio
the or Mississippi
rivers.
Mack (CYPERACEAE)
Carex oklahomensis These specimens
represent the
first
hom
Lcord of the species the state This species also occurs in the midwestern
1
USA m
fiom Missouri and Kansas south Texas and
to the eastern U.S.A. in
&
md
North Citohnr
Mississippi Ttnncssct Virginia (Jones Reznicek
1995;
Brysonetal 1996 Wicboldtet
1998)
il
uu
\ouLhti bpLUimns Calloway Co Uloxv liJd SmpL Cieek Embiyment, Jun 1989J.Grubbs
5
I
hOnUUR)
McCrackenCo
\va duchts on Ithiuidimn Ro^d 24 May 932 (KNK,
tlu 1970. R. Athe)/
MURJ Marshall Co wet woods Shiip Eh Roid oli US b8 10 Mi> 1972 R Athey 1666 iMVR).
i
&
Carex ouachitana Manhart Bryson (CYPERACEAE).
Krai, This recently de-
known
scribed sedge from western Arkansas and Oklahoma
is sites in eastern
&
(Krai et al. 1987; Naczi Bryson 1990), and a single site in Clay County, Tennes-
see (McNeilus 1992). This collection from Clinton County, Kentucky, only few
a
km
from the Clay County site, represents a new record for Kentucky, and the
second record of the species from east of the Mississippi River
N
Voucher specimen: Clinton Co.: dry-mesic slope of Albany, 11 Apr 1998, M. Gorton 98-J47(KKY); 21
Apr 1999, M. Gorton 99-109 (EKY).
&
(CYPERACEAE).
Carex oxylepis Hook. pubescens J.K.Underwood
Torr. var.
C
Though known
from Kentucky (Medley
oxylepis var. oxylepis 1993), this
is
from
collection appears to be the first of C. oxylepis var. pubescens the state.
documented
Additionally, the population by this record represents a portion
of the northern range limit of this variety This taxon appears to be rare; litera-
ture reports are from only one county in Alabama (Bryson et 1992), ten coun-
al.
&
Shimp
ties of Arkansas (Hyatt 1998), one county of Illinois (Basinger 1999),
one county of Mississippi (Bryson et 1992), and four counties of Tennessee
al.
(Chester
etal. 1993).
NE May
Voucher specimen: Clinton Co.: mesic deciduous-juniper forest of Albany, 20 1999, R. Naczi
7982 (DOV, EKY, KNK).
(CYPERACEAE).
Carex roanensis EJ.Herm. This the record of this sedge
is first
known
from Kentucky. was previously from only few populations in Geor-
a
It
North and West mostly from high
Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia,
gia,
elevation sites (Wieboldt et. al 1998). It was found at several sites on Black Moun-
tain, at elevations between 1100-1150 m, but these sites are threatened by strip
mmmg
activities. It has recently been added to the Kentucky list of rare plants
Endangered.
as
Metzmeier
1998, R.Jones and]. 8737k 8757 (EKY).
Carex seorsa Howe (CYPERACEAE). These records add two counties the two
to
&
McKinney
previously reported, Bath and Graves (Ousley Risk 1998; et
al.
common
2000). This species most on the Coastal Plain, and populations out-
is
&
side of that physiographic province are very few (Reznicek Ball 1980).
It is
currently listed as a Special Concern taxon in Kentucky.
&
Roemer (CYPERACEAE).
Eleocharis tuberculosa (Michx.) Schultes This col-
Kentucky mostly on
lection represents a state record for ranges the Coastal
It
Plain, and quite rare outside of that province (Svenson 1937), though does
it is it
County
occur nearby in Fentress Tennessee (Chester et 1993).
al.
(GENTIANACEAE).
This apparently
Griseb. collection
is
i
documented Browne and Athey
the record of this species for Kentucky.
first
and
(1992) cited specimens from the Mississippian Plateau the Bluegrass re-
Mammoth
gions, but these citations were apparently based on a specimen from
now
Cave Bruna 23 Oct EKY!), which has been annotated by R.Jones
1965,
n.,
s.
(J.
as Gentiana saponaria L, and on a specimen once housed at the University ol
Kentucky Agricukural Herbarium— specimen was searched but could
this for
not be located. The collection cited by Medley (1993) as a voucher for Kentucky,
MICH!) The Kentucky"
(Short 1837, lacks locality data. "Lexington, pre-
s.n.,
&
prmted on was Cowan
the label Short's residence at the tune (Stafleu 1985),
and where was was
not the place the plant collected. Short's habit to write the
on
collection locality the label, in the space above pre-printed information. Since
unknown
such an must
his label lacks inscription, be regarded as of prov-
it
no Kentucky specimens and
enance. Pringle (1967) cited of G. andrewsii, states
Campbell County
that this collection is the first he has seen for the state Prin-
(J.
The
gle, pers. comm.). site of the collection is at or near the southern range limit
known
andrewsii, which from nearby southern Indiana and southern
for G. is
Ohio (Pringle 1967). At the Campbell County locality, the gentians were locally
common
in an open, wet-mesic, deciduous floodplain forest dominated by
young Acer rubrum and Quercus
palustris.
Voucher specimen: Campbell Co.: Silver Grove, floodplain of Ohio River, 13 Oct 1997, R. Naczi 7059
(KNK), dupl. det. by James Pringle; 29 Sep 1998, R. Naczi 7735 (KNK).
S.
Vaccinium erythrocarpum Michx. (ERICACEAE). The mountain cranberry
is
restricted to the southern Appalachians, from West Virginia to Georgia, mostly
above 1000 m. Medley (1993) reported a possible sterile specimen of this spe-
cies collected from Harlan County Pounds 85-138) deposited the Univer-
(L. at
sity of Tennessee Herbarium, but a recent search failed to locate any Kentucky
collection Wofford, pers. comm.). This fruiting specimen substantiates the
(B. E.
The
presence of the species in Kentucky. however, likely to be destroyed
site, is
by strip mining activities. has recently been added to our state of rare
It list
Endangered.
plants as
Voucher specimen: Harlan Co.: S slope of Black Moui
Left Fork of Fugitte Creek, elevation 900 m, 14 Aug
:
Viburnum (CAPRIFOLIACEAE).
lantanoides Michx. This the record of
is first
Viburnum Kentucky
lantanoides for Earlier reports were unsubstantiated or
m
(Weckman common
based on misidentifications 1999). The species some
is
high elevation areas of the southern Appalachians, usually above 1000 m.
It
has been documented from several western Virginia counties, including con-
tiguous County (HarviU but not known from Tennessee
Vv^ise et 1986), yet
al. is
A
Kentucky
counties adjacent to the border (Chester et 1997). single popula-
al.
was
tion of about 50 individuals discovered in the Razor Fork stream head, grow-
ing with Betula alkghaniensis and Magnolia Ken-
fraseri. Persistence of this
tucky population threatened by potential valley associated with proposed
is fill
mining on Black Mountain. has been added Kentucky
strip recently to the
It
Endangered.
of rare plants as
list
Black Mountain, head of Razor Fork, elevs
o.: at
1 Weckman (EKY
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