RHODORA, Vol. 106. No. 926. 167-177. 2004 pp. NOTE VASCULAR PLANTS OF THE ISLAND OF NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA: AND RECENT ADDITIONS REDISCOVERIES Nathalie Dian-Chekar Museum Newfoundland Provincial of and Labrador. A1C P.O. Box 1800. Stn. C. St. John's, NL, Canada, 5P9 [email protected] Luc Brouillet dc recherche en biolo«ic veeetale, Universite de Montreal. Institut H1X 4101 rue Shcrhrookc. Montreal. PQ, Canada, 2B2 csl. Claudia Ianhl I Canada Atlantic Conservation Data Centre, Box NB. E4L 1G6 P.O. 6416, Sackville, Canada, Hay Stuart Institut de recherche en biologic vcgetale, Universite de Montreal, MIX 2B2 4101 rue Shcrhrookc, Montreal, PQ, Canada, est, Maundhk John E. Museum Provincial Newfoundland and Labrador, oi' AIC P.O. Box 1800, C, John's, NL, Canada, 5P9 Stn. St. [email protected] The Newfoundland (NFRPP) was Rare 1999 Plant Project initiated in multi-partnered by Newfoundland and Labrador as a effort led the Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre, and the Institut de recherche en biologie The main vegetale of the Universite de Montreal. goals of the project have been to update the previous o( rare vascular plants of the Island list management (Bouchard et al. 1991 and to obtain data to support efforts ) towards conservation o( the rare plants. NFRPP During its initial three years (1999 to 2001), the conducted new a major inventory o( the vascular plants of the Island of 167 Rhodora 168 [Vol. 106 Newfoundland. This was done primarily through intensive, targeted Held surveys the western, central, and northeastern regions of the Island. in Work also involved revaluation of the relevant literature and verification Museum some of herbarium specimens the Provincial o( critical at Newfoundland and Labrador (nfm) and the Herbier Marie Victorin of the Universite de Montreal (mt). Since 2001, individuals and institutions NFRPP involved have continued and compile in the to collect information on vascular plants throughout the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The provided here adds to the Annotated Checklist of the Vascular list Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador (Meades 2000), which et al. some NFRPP. already incorporates of the early findings of the So far, NFRPP new the has recorded twelve vascular plant taxa to the Island o\ Newfoundland. Eleven of these are considered native: Symphyotrichum Lechea boreale, trade intermedia, Bartonia S. scantii, virginica, Proserpinaca pectinata, Carex radio C. retrorsa, Eleocharis ta, erythropoda, Scirpus pedicellatus, Potamogeton richardsonii, and P. One robbinsii. more, Hypericum pulchrum, considered introduced. is NFRPP The has also rediscovered six rare vascular plant taxa previously known for the Island only from historical records: Equisetum hyemale subsp. Oclemena acuminata, Symphyotrichum ciliolatum, affine, Ranunculus recurvatus var. recurvatus, Carex petricosa var. misan- droides, and Juncus subcaudatus. A more detailed account for each of the taxa listed above provided in is following "Species Accounts" the section. Families are presented the in same order as in Meades et (2000). Nomenclature follows Meades al. et (2000) for taxa included therein, the Flora of North America for al. new species of Potamogetonaceae and Cyperaceae Newfoundland, and to new Kartesz (1999) for additional species to Newfoundland. Voucher specimens are variously deposited in nfm, mt, and the herbarium of Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, Newfoundland. ACCOUNTS SPIiCIES new Species to the Island of Newfoundland are marked with an To wording some asterisk. protect sensitive location data, the of location descriptions has been shortened, and some and longitude latitude coordinates have been rounded to the nearest minute. Square brackets have been used where the numerical precision of specimen citation data has been reduced. Note 169 2004] EQUISETACEAE & Roy Equisetum hyemale L. subsp. (Engelm.) Calder L. Taylor affine Specimen citation: Canada. Newfoundland: George's Bay, Fishells Brook, St. NDC & Hand near mouth [48°19'N, 58°42'W], 9 Sep 2000, N. Djan-Chekar C. 00- 1581 (nfm, mt). The Newfoundland was made only previous collection of this taxon in Newfoundland M. central in 1910 [Middle Birchy Pond, Jul 1910, L. 1 1 & Fernald K. M. Wiegand 2364 (gh)|. Unfortunately the identity of the Hauke specimen questionable (Bouchard 1991). (1963) referred is et al. to Equisetum Xtrachyodon A. Braun, a hybrid between E. hyemale it Hauke and E. variegatum Schleich. Subsequently, (1993) included Newfoundland in the distribution of E. hyemale subsp. affine without any comment. The new population reported here was found on the sandy and gravelly bank of Fischells Brook on the west coast of the Island, km almost 200 from the original locality. ASTERACEAE Oclemena acuminata (Michx.) Greene (—Aster acuminatus Michx.) Specimen citations: Canada. Newfoundland: Southwest coast, T. Cheeseman J. CH Hand & Provincial Park, [47°38'N, 59°15'W], 3 Aug 2000, C. S. Powell N 000803-5 (nfm, mt); Southwest coast. Port aux Basques area, (approx. 2 km) of the turnoff to T. Cheeseman Provincial Park, [47°38'N, 59°14'W|, 23 Sep 2002, J. CH Hand 020923-3 C. (nfm). Common was eastern North America, species previously in this known from only two western Newfoundland, both localities in & Long historical [Lark Mountain, 4 Sep 1926, M. L. Fernald, B. J. Aug M. Fogg 460 Port aux Basques (back 31 1924, M. L. (gh); of), & Long Dunbar 27/39 The Fernald, B. B. (gh)]. recent collections are both from the same general locality on the southwest coast of the Island, probably very close to the site of Fernald\s Port aux Basques collection. & & Love Love *Symphyotrichum horeale A. Gray) A. D. (Torr. (= Aster horealis Provanch.) Specimen citation: Canada. Newfoundland: Bay of Islands, Humber Arm, Wild Hand & Cove Brook, [48°58'N, 57°52 / Wl, 4 Sep 2000, N. Djan-Chekar, C. H. NDC Mann 00-1461 (nfm, mt. Sir Wilfred Grenfell College). A somewhat calciphilic fen species found throughout boreal and montane North America. This Newfoundland collection from first is K Rhodora 170 Vol. 106 I a rich fen on the central west coast, near Corner Brook. The species was known previously occur Cape Breton Nova to as far east as Island, Scotia (Zinck 1998). & Symphyotrichum ciliolatum (LindL ex Hook.) A. Love D. Love (= Aster ciliolatus Lindl.) Spfximen citation: Canada. Newfoundland: Stephenvillc Area. Romaine's Brook, CH [48°33'N, 58°40'W], 14 Jul 1999, C. Hanel 990714-1 (nfm). NFRPP, Previous to the the probable existence of this species on the Island of Newfoundland had been documented only once through the Aug type of Aster subgeminatus Fernald [Table Mountain, 16 1910, M. & L. Fernald, K. M. Wiegand J. Kittredge 4126 (gh)], which now appears to be a hybrid between Symphyotrichum ciliolatum and novi- S. Nesom The G. belgii (L.) L. var. novi-belgii. collection reported here is good was a representative of the species. found in the forested It Romanic's floodplain of Brook, near Table Mountain, on west the coast of the Island. At Romaine's Brook, ciliolatum does seem hybridize S. to with novi-belgii, supporting the probable hybrid of Fernald's S. status The somewhat specimen. species calciphilic, and the area where was is it discovered in Newfoundland underlain by limestone. is Nesom * Symphyotrichum tradescantii G. {—Aster (L.) L. tradescantii L.) Specimen citations: Canada. Newfoundland: Head of George's Bay, Bottom St. NFM Brook, Pond,48°31'N, 58°16'W, Maunder First \5 Jul 1999../. £. 6721 (nfm); TCH Bay St. George, Southwest Brook, [near] bridge over brook, [48°3(VN, CH & 58°16'W], 30 Jul 2000, C. Hanel Powell 000730-36 (nfm); Southern Long S. Range Mountains, Bottom Brook, upstream from Third Pond. [48°32'N, 58°12'W], NDC & 13 Sep 2000, N. Djan-Chekar D. Brake 00-/728 (nfm, mt). This species was reported from southern Newfoundland by Fernald (1950). However, the report was rejected by Meades (2000) owing et al. to the absence of verified specimens. The specimens here were listed NFRPP collected by the on sandy riverbanks and lake shores near the Bay head of George's western Newfoundland, confirming St. in finally the presence of the species on the Island. IACEA CIS *Lechea intermedia Legg. ex Britton W Sphcimen citation: Canada. Newfoundland: Exploits Valley, Grand of Falls, community, Exploits River, [near) mouth of Thunder Brook, [48°56 , N. 55°49'W], 30 CH Aug & 2001, Hanel Hancock 010830-15 C. J. (nfm, mt). Note 171 2004] Canada This species widely distributed in eastern parts of southern is The and the northern United States (Scoggan 1978). specimen from Grand Newfoundland was and Falls in central collected in gravel on The from Cape cobbles a sloping riverbank. next nearest records are Nova Breton Island, Scotia (Zinck 1998). HYPERICACEAE * Hypericum pulchrum L. Specimen citation: Canada. Newfoundland: Bay George, Black Duck, [shore St. CH Hand & of Harry's River], [48°34'N, 58°22'W], 21 Jul 2000, C. Powell S. 000727-17 (NFM, MT). The This species native Eurasia. only previous report for North to is America from Miquelon (Meades The Saint-Pierre 2000). is et et al. Newfoundland specimen was found Black Duck, on the west coast of at the Island, in an old abandoned field. GENTIANACEAE & Poggenb. *Bartonia virginica (L.) Britton, Sterns N Specimen citations: Canada. Newfoundland: Codroy Valley, of Doyles along & Mann TCH, Hanel the [47°51'N, 59°9'W|, 8 Sep 2000, N. Djan-Chekar, C. H. WNW NDC -5 km 00-1563 (nfm, mt); South Coast, Burgeo, of, [47°37'N, CH Aug 57°41'W], 13 2000, C. Hanel 000XI3-I (nfm). This species an Atlantic coastal plain element of the eastern North is As Meades was American flora. reported by et al. (2000), first it NFRPP, collected Newfoundland, by the 2000. Both collections in in were from open, acidic habitats (rocky heath and bog) in southern known The was from nearby regions of the Island. species already Saint- Miquelon (Rouleau and Lamoureux Pierre 1992). et HALORAGACEAE Lam. *Proserpinaca pectinata Specimen Canada. Newfoundland: Southern Long Range Mountains, citation: Bottom Brook, upstream from Third Pond, [48°32'N, 58°12'W], 13 Sep 2000, N. NDC & Djan-Chekar D. Brake 00-/720 (nfm, mt). was This a species of the Atlantic coastal plain of North America. is It NFRPP unknown Newfoundland made from until the this collection at Bottom Brook, near the head of George's Bay on the west coast of St. the Island. Plants were growing in mats of aquatic vegetation rooted in 172 Rhodora [Vol. 106 mud soft sandy on a riverbank. The next nearest records are from Nova (Crow and Scotia llcllquist 2000). RANUNCULACEAE Ranunculus Lam. recurvatus Poir. in var. recurvatus Specimen citation: Canada. Newfoundland: Serpentine Lake, Blue Brook, Hill [48°53'N, 58°19'W], 13 Aug 1999, L. Brouillet, S. Hay & D. Bedlam LB 99-224 (nfm). This taxon had been collected Newfoundland 1962 [Sheep last in in Brook, 1962, E. Rouleau 7633 (mt)]. As indicated by Meades et al. was NFRPP, swamp rediscovered by (2000), the in 1999, in an alder it at new Serpentine Lake, taxon western Newfoundland. a locality for the in The specimen documents by Meades the report (2000). et al. CYPERACEAE Dewey Carex petricosa misandroides Boivin var. (Fernald) B. Specimen citation: Canada. Newfoundland: Bay of Goose Ann, William Islands, Wheeler Point, |49°1()'N, 57°52'W], 21 Jul 2000, N. Djan-Chekar, Maunder, J. L. NDC & 00-424B Brouillet C. Wentzell (nfm, mt). This sedge rare in Canada. an eastern North American endemic is It is known only from northern Quebec, the Gaspe Peninsula, and western Newfoundland (Bouchard 1991; Labrecque and Lavoie 2002). et al. It had been Newfoundland not collected in since the 1960s [Table late Mountain (summit), Pine Tree, 19 Jul 1967, E. Rouleau 10X63 (mt)]. The was population reported here originally discovered by Ernest Rouleau in William Wheel (MT)]. * Carex radiata (Wahlenb.) Small Specimen citation: Canada. Newfoundland: Bay of Islands. Humber Ami, Wild Cove Brook, [48°58'N, 57°53'W], 19 Jul 2000, N. Djan-Chekar, C. Hanel, L. NDC Maunder, & Brouillet, J. C. Wentzell S. Powell 00-375 (nfm. mt, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College). known This species from deciduous and mixed is forests in eastern North America (Ball 2002). John Bell collected a Newfoundland specimen 1867 Codroy in [Great River, 10 Jul 1867, Bell (mt)]. s.n. ,/. Bell originally identified as Carex rosea Schkuhr, a name that has it been frequently misapplied to C. radiata (Ball 2002). Ernest Rouleau Note 173 2004] later reexamined Bell's specimen and assigned to C. cephalantha E. P. it As Bicknell. a consequence, C. radiata has never been included in plant Newfoundland and Labrador (Meades 2000; Robertson lists for et al. Rouleau Rouleau and Lamoureux The by 1984; 1978; 1992). collection NFRPP, Cove Wild Brook, on west the in alluvial thickets at the Island's coast, led to the ^identification of BelTs 1867 specimen as C. radiata. *Carex Schwein. retrorsa Specimen Canada. Newfoundland: Long Range Mountains, Deer Lake, citation: Humber Aug shore mouth of Upper River, [49°10'N, 57°28'W], 29 2000, N. Djan- at NDC Mann & 00-1300 Chekar, C. Hanel, L. Layers, H. C. Wentzell (nfm). America wet North (Reznicek This species occurs habitats across in and Ford 2002). was reported for Newfoundland by Scoggan (1978), It Meades because no voucher could be but (2000) rejected the report et al. found herbaria. Reznicek and Ford (2002) also omitted the in NFRPP Newfoundland report. The collection made by the on the shores of Deer Lake confirms the occurrence of the species on the Island. *Eleocharis erythropoda Steud. New Specimen citation: Canada. Newfoundland: Northeast coast, World Island, CH & SE Summerford, of, [49°29'N, 54°46'W], 22 Jul 2001, C. Hanel S. Partly 010722-11 (NFM, MT). Two Newfoundland Eleocharis collections from western [Serpentine Lake (western end 14 Aug 1951, E. Rouleau 2408 (mt, nfld, dao); of), Humber Aug Rouleau 482 Steady Brook, River, 19 1948, E. (mt, ny, nfld, acad, can, dao)J were examined by S. Galen Smith (wis) in 1999 North America and determined be for the Flora of Project, to & Roem intermediates between E. erythropoda and E. palustris (L.) Schult. However, typical examples of E. erythropoda remained now unknown from Newfoundland. The presence of the species is The continued by the specimen from a saltmarsh on the northeast coast. species found across North America, with the next nearest location is New being Brunswick (Smith 2002), in et al. * Scirpus pedicellatus Fernald Specimen citations: Canada. Newfoundland: Long Range Mountains, Upper Aug Humber River, upstream from Reidville, [49°14'N, 57°22'W], 28 2000, C. CH Hanel, L. Layers & C. Wentzell 000828-13 (nfm, mt); Long Range Mountains, Aug Upper Humber River, Reidville, [49°13'N, 57°23'W], 30 2000, C. Hanel, L. CH & Mann Layers H. 000830-2 (nfm, mt, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College). 174 Rhodora 106 [Vol. These Newfoundland collections of eastern North American this first NFRPP made species were by the on the west coast of the Island. The plant grows on the muddy banks of backwaters of the Humber River. The identities of both collections were confirmed by Alfred E. Schuyler The Nova (ph). next nearest records are from Scotia (Whittemore and Schuyler 2002). JUNCACEAK & J uncus subcaudatus (Engelm.) Coville Blake S. F. Specimen citations: Canada. Newfoundland: George's Bay, Brook, St. Fishells NDC & Hand near mouth, [48°19'N, 58°42'W|, 9 Sep 2000, N. Djan-Chekar C. 00- NDC NDC & Hand 15X4 (nfm, mi); 10 Sep 2000, N. Djan-Chekar C. 00-1627, 00- NDC 1634, 00-1636 (nfm, mt); Exploits Valley, Grand Falls, Exploits River, below (S of) dam, [48°55'N, 55°40'W], 28 Aug 2001, C. Hand, H. Thomas & Hancock J. W CH 01082S-34 (nfm, mt); Grand Falls, of community. Thunder Brook, [48°56'N, Aug Hand & CH 55°49'W], 30 2001, C. Hancock 010830-11 (nfm, mt). ./. This species was reported for Newfoundland 1990, following first in a revision of historical specimens that had been misidentified (Hay et al. On 1990). the basis of these records, the species was known only from Avalon the Peninsula [Peter's River, approx. 2 mi. southeast 17 Sep of, 1959, E. Rouleau 5156 (mt, nfld)], and from north central Newfound- Aug & [Grand 1,M. M. Wiegand land Falls, 191 L. Fernald, K. T. 11. 1 1 Darlington 5127 (mt, gh); Grand Falls, along the Exploits River, 12 Aug & 191 M. L. Fernald, K. M. Wiegand H. T. Darlington 5128 (gh); 1, Sheffield Lake, Southwest Brook, at the mouth of, 16 Aug 1951, E. NFRPP Rouleau 2512 The (mt, nfld, dao)]. found the species at Fischells Brook and in the Exploits Valley. The Fischells Brook known collections extend the range of the species into western Newfoundland. POTAMOGETONACEAK * Potamogeton richardsonii (A. Benn.) Rydb. Specimen (Tim Canada. Newfoundland: ions: Great Northern Peninsula. Indian NFM Pond, 50°41'N, 57°13'W, 17 Jul 1997, E. Maunder 7700 (nfm); Grand J. NW NFM Codroy River, of Doyles, 47°5()'N, 59°12'W, 22 Jul 1997, E. Maunder ./. 7701 (NFM). NFRPP from examined Botanists the unidentified Potamogeton material held at nfm and discovered P. richardsonii, which was unknown The previously specimens were two for the Island. collected at Note 1 175 004] widely separated locations on the west coast of the Island: a lake and in slow-moving backwater Potamogeton in a of a large river. richardsonii a North American endemic found across the continent (Haynes and is The from Gaspe Hellquist 2000). next nearest records are the Peninsula, Nova Quebec (Faubert 2000), and Cape Breton Island, Scotia (Zinck 1998). * Potamogeton Oakes robbinsii Specimen Canada. Newfoundland: Southern Long Range Mountains, citations: E Bottom Brook, of Third Pond. [4<X°32'N. 5S°12'W). 13 Sep 2000, N. Djan-Chekar, Hand & NDC 00-1736 Grand C. D. Brake H. Smith (nfm, mt); Exploits Valley, W Aug Hand of community, Exploits River, [48°56'N, 55°45'W], 30 2001, C. Falls, CH & Hancock 010830-43 (nfm, mt). J. This species patchily, but widely, distributed throughout North is America (Haynes and Hellquist 2000). The collections reported here are from backwaters along rivers two different watersheds, one on the in west coast and one central Newfoundland. The next nearest records in Nova are from Cape Breton Island, Scotia (Zinck 1998). acknowledgments. The authors thank the agencies that provided NFRPP: Canada funding and/or other support to the Atlantic Conservation Data Centre, Canadian Forestry Service, Canadian EJLB Wildlife Service (Endangered Species Recovery Fund), Founda- McLean George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation. Founda- tion, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Memorial University of tion, New- Newfoundland Garden, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Botanical foundland and Labrador Department of Forest Resources and Agrifoods, Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Tourism, Culture and Museum Newfoundland and Labrador, Recreation, Provincial of New- Universite de Montreal, Shell Environmental Fund, Western Model World Fund Canada (Endangered foundland and Wildlife Forest, We work Species Recovery Fund). also sincerely acknowledge the of who NFRPP: Shawn Marilyn Anions, individuals participated the in Avery, Douglas Ballam, Mike Bennett, Dick Brake, Joe Brazil, Rene Charest, Rick Curran, Stephen Flemming, Janelle Hancock, Luise Hermanutz, Lorna Lafosse, R. A. Lautenschlaser, Laurence Lavers, Henry Mann, Susan Meades, Jeff Motty, Wilf Nicholls, Shelley J. Shawna Randy Pardy, Bruce Pike, Beth Pollock, Powell, Power, Rob Rainer, Peter Scott, Hubert Smith, Leah Soper, and Carson Wentzell. 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