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The Woody Plants Of The Big South Fork National River And Recreation Area, Joey Thomas Shaw
The Woody Plants Of The Big South Fork National River And Recreation Area, Joey Thomas Shaw
Masters Theses
The woody flora of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area was collected during two growing seasons from 1999 to 2000. The 123,000 acre study area lies on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee and Kentucky. Seven hundred and sixty accessions yielded 51 families, 100 genera, and 183 species. County records totaled 128. Magnolia fraseri was collected for the first time from the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Fourteen Federal or State listed taxa were collected including Comptonia peregrina, which has only been collected two other times dating back to 1842. Voucher specimens were deposited in the herbarium of the …