ISSN 1536-7738 Oklahoma Native Plant Record Journal of the Oklahoma Native Plant Society Volume 1, Number 1, December 2001 Premier Issue Oklahoma Native Plant Society The purpose of the ONPS is to encourage the study, protection, propagation, appreciation and use of the native plants of Oklahoma. Membership in ONPS shall be open to any person who supports the aims of the Society. ONPS offers individual, student, family, and life membership. Officers and Board President: Pat Folley Photo Contest: Paul Reimer Vice-president: Chad Cox Ann Long Award Chair: Paul Reimer Secretary: Maurita Nations Harriet Barclay Award Chair: Treasurer: Mary Korthase Connie Taylor Board Members: ONPS Service Award Chair: Sue Amstutz Berlin Heck Newsletter Editor: Chad Cox Iris McPherson Librarian: Bonnie Winchester Sue Amstutz Website Manager: Chad Cox Jim Elder Paul Reimer Larry Magrath Managing editor: Sheila Strawn Technical editor: Pat Folley Northeast Chapter Chair: Jim Elder Technical advisor: Bruce Hoagland Central Chapter Chair: Judy Jordan Cross-timbers Chapter Chair: Ron Tyrl Historian: Lynn Allen Cover: Cercis canadensis (Redbud) Photo courtesy of Charles Lewallen. Conservation Chair: Berlin Heck “That man is truly ethical who shatters no Publicity Co-chairs: ice crystal as it sparkles in the sun, tears no Ruth Boyd & Betty Culpepper leaf from a tree…” Marketing Chair: Larry Magrath Albert Schweitzer Articles (c) The Authors Journal compilation (c) Oklahoma Native Plant Society Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike4.0 International License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-sa/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the same or similar license to this one. https://doi.org/10.22488/okstate.17.100001 Oklahoma Native Plant Record Volume 1, Number 1, December 2001 Oklahoma Native Plant Record Volume 1, Number 1 Table of Contents Forward ...................................................................................................................... 2 Ms. Pat Folley, ONPS President The Spermatophyta of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma ....................................... 3 Masters Thesis of Dr. U. T. Waterfall Floristic List for Oklahoma County ..................................................................... 25 Dr. Bruce W. Hoagland Native Orchids of Oklahoma ............................................................................... 39 Dr. Lawrence K. Magrath Galium parisiense var. leiocarpum Tausch, New for Oklahoma ............................ 67 Dr. Lawrence K. Magrath Checklist of the Ferns, Natural Falls State Park ................................................. 68 Dr. Bruce A. Smith ONPS Critic’s Choice Essay : The Limestone Glade ............................................. 72 Mr. Jim Norman 2 Oklahoma Native Plant Record Volume 1, Number 1, December 2001 Foreword The Oklahoma Biological Survey is in the process of making an inventory of the plant specimens that have made their way into the herbaria housed at our universities. They will eventually make that information available on the World Wide Web. All kinds of information will be available, electronically, from those dried specimens. They are a priceless treasure, recording our past and the efforts made to understand it. Putting that data on the Web will be a way of making it accessible to people who have no physical access to the herbaria, and little time to extract it. Other kinds of plant information are stored in the minds of our members and scientists. Possibly, the files stored in computers will outlast them, maybe not. Who knows? One thing we do know: people have been interested in the flora of Oklahoma for more than a hundred years. Some of their observations have been recorded but, for the most part, not in published form. Believing that those records are important for the understanding of our current flora, The Oklahoma Native Plant Society has determined to bring some of those records to your eye in a more durable form. For many years, Dr. U. T. Waterfall’s Keys to the Flora of Oklahoma has been the only statewide source of identification keys. Few know that his first attempt to catalog the plants of Oklahoma was a master’s thesis that includes a list of the plants he found in Oklahoma County in the 1930’s. What a difference there is in Oklahoma County between that time and this! To put that survey into perspective, we are including a working copy of the Biological Survey’s list for Oklahoma County, made in the year 2000. This journal intends to publish in each issue, a previously unpublished historic study, which may serve as a baseline for your own investigations into your local flora. We will also include recent studies, student papers, current plant lists, and essays of permanent value. In the future, we hope to be able to publish either Little’s or Bebb’s catalog of plants of Muskogee County, and other such lists as may be discovered. For that purpose, we challenge the members of Oklahoma Native Plant Society to offer records and observations which they may have available. Not that there will ever be a complete record of the life in any one place, because life refuses to be reduced to a score-card, but because we believe that a knowledge of the plants of a specific location is a fundamental part of understanding other life that may be found there, including our own. You, our readers, will know of current or historic information that should be included in future issues. We hope you will share those with us. Patricia Folley, President Oklahoma Native Plant Society April, 2001 Oklahoma Native Plant Record 3 Volume 1, Number 1, December 2001 THE SPERMATOPHYTA OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA EXCLUSIVE OF THE GRASSES, SEDGES AND RUSHES A THESIS APPROVED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY AND BACTERIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA GRADUATE SCHOOL BY U. T. WATERFALL Norman, Oklahoma, 1942 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION collected in Virginia by John Clayton. They were described by This paper represents a the Italian botanist Gronovius preliminary taxonomic study of in his Flora Virginica (1739), the flowering plants indigenous and later given binomial to Oklahoma County. Collections designation by Linneas in the during the springs, summers and Species Plantarum. Thus the type falls of 1939, 1940, and 1941 and locality for these Linnean also during the spring of 1942. species, which are based on After the first general but Clayton's material, is in extensive collections were made southeastern Virginia. a number of special stations of Collections from that region widely varying ecological were often found to differ from structures were selected. the wider-ranging inland plants Collections were made from these referred erroneously, by most at regular intervals of about two botanists, to the Linnean weeks throughout the growing species. Fernald’s restudy of season, or at a corresponding many of these types has shown time during the next year. In that the variety occurring in a addition a search was made for restricted range along the coast stations containing different, is usually the typical one, i.e., ecological elements. Thus the the variety which Gronovius had finding of a maximum number of before him when writing the species over a limited period of description upon which Linneas time was assured by a combination based his generic and specific of extensive and intensive name, while the wide-ranging methods of collection. The plant of the interior must, in specimens were pressed in the the large majority of cases, be standard way used in the leading given a new varietal name. A herbaria. Duplicates were similar situation has been found obtained in nearly every case and to be true for plants collected were deposited in the Bebb along the coast and named by Herbarium of the University of other botanists. This will help Oklahoma. to account for the appearance of Among the most outstanding many of the varietal of the recent investigations, designations in this paper that which may be applied to the flora are not found in the existing of this region, are Fernald's floras and manuals pertaining to series of "Virginia" papers Oklahoma. published annually in Rhodora 1 1 Ferna1d and Griscom, Three since 1935. Fernald reported Days of Botanizing in Southwestern that a number of wide-ranging Virginia, Rhodora 37, pp. 129-13l, continental plants were first 1935. Waterfall, U.T. https://doi.org/10.22488/okstate.17.100003 4 Oklahoma Native Plant Record Volume 1, Number 1, December 2001 CHAPTER II HISTORY also mentioned briefly the "Cross Timbers."8 One of the first Americans A large number of plants to traverse what is now Oklahoma from Oklahoma County have County was Washington Irving, who undoubtedly been collected by with Charles Latrobe and his Thomas R. Stemen and W. Stanley fellow travelers, made a trip Meyers in the course of their through this region in the fall of investigations on which the Oklahoma Flora9 1832. Irving, in his Tour on the is based. These Prairies, recorded the events and have not been available for study his impressions of this trip. His by the author. companion, Latrobe1, may have had 1 Rambler in some botanical training as he Charlee Latrobe, North America mentioned various genera of , (excerpts in Tour on the Prairies plants seen on the journey. Irving's , The Party approached the edited by Joseph B. Thoburn and present site of Edmond on the 23rd George C. Wells. xxv. Harlow of October. Their line of search Pub1ishing Company, Oklahoma took them past the sites Arcadia, City, Oklahoma, 1930). 2 Tour on Spencer, Oklahoma City and, on the Washington Irving, the Prairies 28th, over what is now the , (1.c.), pp. southern boundary of Oklahoma 240-243. 2 3Ibid County in the direction of Moore . ., p 145. 4Ibid Irving gave a good description of ., p. 173. 5Ibid., p. 151. the post oak-blackjack woods, 6 even mentioning the dwarf oak, W. E.