FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
projects
by region and state
prepared by Philip E. Hyatt, revised Oct. 21, 2006
The purpose of this page is to document which states in the southeastern
United States (and some adjoining areas) have active projects in place, or
completed projects, with floras for large or significant geographic or
physiographic areas or states, or multi-state project. Part of my purpose
is to encourage botanists to produce floras for their respective states.
The background picture is of a hortwort, Megaceros aenigmaticus, which is not a vascular plant. I will add brief comments on the
usefulness of each flora to the novice botanist, where I have used the book.
Please let me know of any other state, regional, or major subregion flora projects. I'm less interested and have no plans to include county level floras and related master's thesis, park or national forest flora lists, etc. I'm more interested in the state level flora with four critical parts: coverage of all a state's vascular (or non-vascular) flora, keys, descriptions, illustrations. If a project lacks any of those, I feel free to exclude it.
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AlabamaBob Kral, retired forester, botanist extraordinaire,
and curator of the Vanderbilt Herbarium (VDB), Dan Spauling, and
others are working on a flora of Alabama and central Tennessee
(pers. commun. 2004). A committee has formed
in Alabama to work on the flora of that state and that the goal
of the Alabama folks is to make it a field guide, user friendly
to land managers, wildlife biologists, and home owners.
The
Arkansas Flora Project
is a cooperative effort designed to produce a field guide type flora which
will include all vascular plants in the state, targeted for release in 2010.
This group wants to produce a thorough flora but to make it useful
to the non-taxonomist.
Florida
Wunderlin's
Flora of Florida covers the state. I've not seen it.
Wunderlin & Hanson: need to find info.
Clewell produced an excellent flora of the Florida
panhandle (Clewell, Andre F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants
of the Florida Panhandle. University Presses of Florida. Gainesville.
605pp.
Georgia
I know of no active flora project for Georgia.
The
Georgia Native Plant Society
has a message board which I have been using to encourage such a project.
A county plant atlas distribution atlas exists (out of print),
and an initial attempt to update it is continuing, as best I can tell.
Kentucky
The flora of Kentucky, Plant Life of Kentucky, costs about $75 from
University Press of Kentucy.. Contact
the U. P. of K. P. O. Bpx 11478, Lexington, KY 20576-1578 for more accurate info.
By Ronald L. Jones. I've seen a copy briefly. Nice! Paperwork as it has keys, family
descriptions, species accounts, for 2600 taxa.
I know of no active flora project for Mississippi (confirmed by the folks at MISS, 2003).
North Carolina
Alan Weakley is working on a flora project which includes North Carolina.
South Carolina
Alan Weakley is working on a flora project which includes South Carolina.
Tennessee
Bob Kral, retired forester, botanist extraordinaire,
and curator of the Vanderbilt Herbarium (VDB), Dan Spaulding, et al. are working on a flora
of Alabama and central Tennessee (pers. commun. 2002). I have no idea if it will be user
friendly.
Dr. Chester at APSC, tells me "the woody flora of Tennessee is pretty well covered in: Wofford,
B.E., and E.W. Chester. 2002. The trees, shrubs, and woody vines of Tennessee. The University
of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. In addition, our website contains county-by county distributions
(all) and images (>90 percent) of all vascular plants, [and is] searchable by family, genus, species,
and common name. We are constantly upgrading the site and have an updated checklist about ready
that will give nativity and listed status. This on-line account is about as close to a Tennessee
flora as we expect to have in the near future."
For the Tennessee flora, its worth visiting
the University of Tennessee's vascular flora webpage.
Texas
Texicans have their own anchient flora in the form of Johnston and Correll's book.
More up to date regional floras includ the Flora of
East Texas, volume 1 and the
Flora of North Central Texas. I occasionally find a flora of south Texas available on eBay.
Virginia
The Flora of
Virginia Project is a well thought out plan, organization, and website
with a goal of producing a flora for Virginia. In addition Alan Weakley
is working on a flora project which includes Virginia as well the
Carolinas.
Regional projects
The
flora of mid-Atlantic states may be identified using this page.
Add Godfrey & Wooten's wetland SE USA flora info.
Add Wofford's southern appalachian USA flora info.
A northeastern U. S.
page of floras similar to this page may be found here.