Plant Life of Kentucky: An Illustrated Guide to the Vascular Flora
Ronald L. Jones
Language: English
Pages: 856
ISBN: B002TLTLF8
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Plant Life of Kentucky is the first comprehensive guide to all the ferns, flowering herbs, and woody plants of the state. This long-awaited work provides identification keys for Kentucky's 2,600 native and naturalized vascular plants, with notes on wildlife/human uses, poisonous plants, and medicinal herbs. The common name, flowering period, habitat, distribution, rarity, and wetland status are given for each species, and about 80 percent are illustrated with line drawings. The inclusion of 250 additional species from outside the state (these species are "to be expected" in Kentucky) broadens the regional coverage, and most plants occurring from northern Alabama to southern Ohio to the Mississippi River (an area of wide similarity in flora) are examined, including nearly all the plants of western and central Tennessee. The author also describes prehistoric and historical changes in the flora, natural regions and plant communities, significant botanists, current threats to plant life, and a plan for future studies. Plant Life of Kentucky is intended as a research tool for professionals in biology and related fields, and as a resource for students, amateur naturalists, and others interested in understanding and preserving our rich botanical heritage.
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Isoetes engelmannii Isoetes melanopoda Huperzia lucidula Lycopodiella alopecuroides Lycopodiella appressa Lycopodiella inundata Lycopodium clavatum T. intricatum Farrar. Appalachian trichomanes. Sheltered sandstone cliffs and crevices. AP, ME. Rare. Known only as gametophytes, these distinguishable from algae and moss protonema by their many discoid chloroplasts; their brown, unicellular, very short rhizoids; and the presence of filamentous gemmae. ISOETACEAE. THE QUILLWORT FAMILY.
Lathyrus palustris Leucothoe racemosa Marshallia grandiflora Solidago gracillima Solidago randii Spiraea virginiana Spiranthes lucida Tephrosia spicata Vitis rupestris Unusual plant communities occur along some high gradient Appalachian streams. They are best exemplified by sites along the Cumberland River, the Rockcastle River, and the Big South Fork. Shrubby zones along the bouldery banks are usually inhabited by a variety of small individuals of black locust, river birch, sweetgum,
to some of the earliest flowering plants (Judd et al. 2002). The seeds and leaves of hornworts may occasionally be fed upon by waterfowl, but they are apparently not a preferred food. 1. Achenes with marginal spines lacking (2 basal spines sometimes present); leaves forked 1 or 2 times ____________________________________________________________ C. demersum. 1. Achenes with many marginal spines; leaves, at least some, forked more than twice __________ C. echinatum. C. demersum L. July–Oct.
naturalized from tropical America. FACU. An Australian species, C. pumilio R.Br., with perianth densely yellow-gradular, has also been reported from KY. C. berlandieri Moq. Pitseed g. June–Oct. Disturbed places. ME, IP. Infrequent. [C. bushianum Aellen] *C. botrys L. Jerusalem-oak. July–Oct. Disturbed places. Across KY. Infrequent, naturalized from Europe. UPL. C. pratericola Rydb. June–Oct. Dry, open sites. Across KY. Rare. C. leptophyllum Nutt., a similar species native to c. U.S. with
petals bearded; chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers (closed, self-pollinating) present. 17. Leaves notably longer than wide, shallowly lobed (cleft or incised) at base only, leaf bases sagittate to hastate; sepal auricles of cleistogamous flowers 1/2 as long or longer than sepals ____________________ V. sagittata. 17. Leaves about as wide as long, shallowly to deeply lobed (cleft, parted or divided) throughout, leaf bases truncate, reniform or cordate; sepal auricles < 1/2 as long as sepals.
