Journal136 of Species Research 8(1):136-159, 2019JOURNAL OF SPECIES RESEARCH Vol. 8, No. 1 Vascular plant diversity of the Gogunsan Archipelago in the Korean Peninsula Jung-Hyun Kim1,*, Ji-Hong An2, Gi-Heum Nam1, Hwan-Joon Park1, Jin-Seok Kim1, Byoung Yoon Lee1, Kyeong-Ui Lee3,4 and Yeon-Soon Chang4 1Plant Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 22689, Republic of Korea 2Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration Team, Baekdudaegan National Arboretum, Bonghwa 35208, Republic of Korea 3Department of Forest Resources, Kongju National University, Yesan 32439, Republic of Korea 4Institute of Ecosystem Survey, Seoul 06580, Republic of Korea *Correspondent:
[email protected] This study was carried out to investigate the flora of six islands belonging to the Gogunsan Archipelago (i.e., Sinsi-do, Seonyu-do, Munyeo-do, Yami-do, Bian-do, and Duri-do) in the Korean Peninsula. As results of five field surveys from March to October of 2016, we have identified 575 total taxa, representing 527 species, five subspecies, 42 varieties, and one hybrid, placed in 358 genera and 118 families. Of these 575 taxa, four are endemic to Korea, six taxa are listed on the Korean Red List of threatened species, 67 are floristic regional indicator plants, and 74 are invasive alien species. In this study, we compared species richness among the islands, and find that the larger the islands, the higher the species richness. In the case of habitat affinity types, forest species were most common, followed by farmland, seacoast, bare ground and wetland species. From similarity analyses based on the composition of vascular plants, each island did not exhibit either local spec- ificity or unique diversity.