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INTERNATIONAL WATERLILY AND WATER GARDENING SOCIETY WATER GARDEN JOURNAL Volume 17, No. 4 Contents 2 – From your President 2 – From your Editor 2 – News and Updates 3 – News Snippets 4 – Annual Competition for New Waterlilies 5 – Alien Invaders 5 – Initial Report from the 2002 Symposium 6 – Competition and Banksian Medal Award 6 – Back Issues 7 – Propagating Aquatic Plants Hydroponically - John C. Hovanesian 10 – Water Quality - Gary Jones 12 – Nominations for Inductees into the IWGS Hall of Fame 12 – Announcement of IWGS Research Awards 13 – Educational Opportunities 14 – Commercial Members Page 2 The Water Garden Journal, Volume 17 No.4 FROM YOUR PRESIDENT FROM YOUR EDITOR It was great to see everyone in Portland at the 17th It is some years since our last questionnaire to the full annual symposium! Eamonn Hughes, aided by Bridget membership and, as Brad has mentioned, we would Shaw and others, put on a great show for all of those very much appreciate your input. attending. Jim and Verena’s terrific pre-symposium tour explored many of Oregon’s special sites (the We hope that you find plenty of interest in this issue. dune buggy rides being a highlight!). Many thanks to For ease of navigation, all links mentioned in the all who played roles in this wonderful event. articles can once again be found on the society website www.iwgs.org Attending the Symposium is special to many of us for several reasons. We get to renew acquaintances with James Allison – Editor many friends that we only see once a year. We get to [email protected] talk about the hobby that we love with many other knowledgeable people. We can listen to some of the most experienced people in aquatics give lectures on NEWS & UPDATES their field of expertise. There is also the opportunity to volunteer in the running of the IWGS. You are encouraged to get involved in the groups that give direction to the Board of Directors. PORTLAND SYMPOSIUM Interesting committees, like the web-site and the Feedback on the recent symposium in Portland has symposium committees, need volunteers. This is a been most positive. A short summary is on page 5 good way for new members to get to know people and a full report follows in our next issue with a and feel part of the organization. Get involved! Our colour cover for competition-winning lilies. next symposium is planned for the beautiful city of Toronto, so make plans now to attend next August! SYMPOSIUM 2003 Plans are being made for our 2003 symposium in Hughes Water Gardens grew the lilies for the annual Toronto, Canada, around the first/second week in waterlily competition this year and did a terrific job August, with opportunities to see scenic Niagara of bringing both tropical and hardy lilies to maturity Falls, botanic gardens and growers. Further details in the cold Pacific Northwest. Some details are in this will follow in the journal and on the website, once journal, and it is important to note that the winner of they are finalised. the competition was a first timer. The Schuck’s of Charleston Aquatic Nursery have been involved in WEBSITE the IWGS for many years, but entered the waterlily Tom Kiehl has been carrying out work on our trials for the first time this year and came away with website and a number of new features are due to the grand prize! Another first timer, Stewart Maiden, appear shortly. Society members will be able to post won the best small hardy category. Congrats to both details of upcoming events in their area. We will also and I hope this encourages other first timers to enter list society members willing to be speakers - useful if the competition which has become one of the you know a club or organisation that needs a highlights of the annual symposium. presentation on water gardening. A questionnaire is included and is important for us to With the introduction of ‘PayPal’ it will also become better serve your needs. Please take a few minutes of possible to pay for memberships on-line with this your time to complete and return it. secure and straightforward method of using your credit/debit card. Regards, Brad McLane – President [email protected] The Water Garden Journal, Volume 17 No.4 Page 3 GERMAN BRANCH The German speaking branch of the IWGS NEWS SNIPPETS FROM (Wassergarten-Freunde) has a new President, Theo Germann, and Vice President, Andreas Schwimmer. OTHER PUBLICATIONS For more details of the branch’s activities, contact: AND THE WEB Gesellschaft der Wassergarten-Freunde Theo Germann Am Rübsamenwühl 22 CZECH AQUATIC COLLECTION 67346 Speyer, Germany The University of Florida’s newsletter ‘Aquaphyte’ Tel. (0)6232-63040 Fax (0)6232-63041 22(1):14 reports on the Collection of Aquatic and Email [email protected] Wetland Plants (CAWP) at the Institute of Botany of www.wassergarten.de the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. This compact but impressive collection of around 350 The branch has provisional plans to hold an species, hybrids and cultivars, includes plants mostly exhibition sometime in 2003, beside the lily ponds of indigenous to Central Europe. It is considered the Karl Wachter in Walderbach. greatest collection of native aquatic and wetland plants in Europe. Although not open to the general FRANCES PERRY REMEMBERED public, the curators are happy to exchange plant In her lifetime, Frances Perry was an outstanding materials with other plant collections. More details communicator on water gardening with many books can be found at www.butbn.cas.cz and articles to her name and she was one of the first to be included in our Hall of Fame. One of her PLANT DISEASE ISSUES remaining legacies is the horticultural college at Capel The Ornamental Aquatic Trade Association based in Manor (sited north of London, England) where she the UK (www.ornamentalfish.org) notified its was closely involved. members that a consignment of aquatic plants from The IWGS made a donation Singapore has been destroyed following inspection, of £1,000 to the college’s due to the presence of the larvae of millennium appeal for Nymphula/Parapoynx crisonalis which is not native to research and training funds, Europe. This raises the importance of plant health for and the picture below shows all those shipping plants internationally. the college’s Chief Executive Steve Dowbiggin, receiving [Coincidentally, a web search shows that the Asian the cheque from Board moth in the above case has also appeared in Florida representative Marion Haufe. where its larvae have been found feeding on Hydrilla. 3Frances Perry’s portrait on Capel It may even be a candidate for biological control of Manor’s ‘Millennium Wall’ this submerged weed. (Photo: Charles Covington) http://www.invasive.org/publications/xsymposium/pr oceed/05pg307.pdf ] FISH DISEASE ISSUES - SVC The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service carries an article regarding the recent outbreak of Spring Viraemia of Carp (SVC) on a fish farm in North Carolina, the first confirmed case in the USA. http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ceah/cei/sv_us0702.h tm SVC is a serious viral disease which can kill common and ornamental carp as well a variety of other cyprinid species including, rudd, tench, orfe and goldfish. The virus (Rhabdovirus carpio) can lie Page 4 The Water Garden Journal, Volume 17 No.4 dormant in the fish, only causing mortalities when it OTHER TREATMENTS is triggered e.g. by water temperature rises in the It is worth noting that Atrazine and a similar spring. SVC has been found in a number of other herbicide, Simazine, are found in some algicide countries, including mainland Europe where it is also products. Many other widely used chemical products a notifiable disease. Eleven cases were reported to the are being re-assessed for safety by environment World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in agencies in a number of countries. Items being 2001 (http://www.oie.int), and one case has been considered include the persistence of the chemicals reported in the UK in the spring of 2002. and the risks of biological side effects at concentrations well below those previously thought As this journal went to press there were unconfirmed to be safe. reports of a second finding of the disease elsewhere in the USA. Information on viral diseases in koi can also The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) of the UK be found on the website reports in The Garden 127(9):664) that new safety http://www.akca.org/kht/virusalert.htm legislation in Europe is likely to greatly reduce the number of treatments available to gardeners after KOI HERPES VIRUS July 2003, in many cases due to the high costs of Worldwide there has been continuing nervousness in the review process. Other UK sources have the koi trade due to the potential impact of Koi informally confirmed that some pond and aquarium Herpes Virus (KHV, previously mentioned in the treatments are likely to disappear from shelves due to Water Garden Journal 17(2):2). There are limited this legislation. reports of incidents of the disease this year, including news of one possible outbreak in Indonesia. Gary Jones of API in the USA has also noted that certain formulations of water test kit for ammonia A UK fish dealer was taken to court by a customer will eventually be withdrawn due to new controls on whose koi contracted KHV. The case has gone products that contain traces of mercury. against the dealer and the damages and costs in the case are expected to exceed $400,000. THE IWGS These two viral diseases raise the issues surrounding the transport of fish around the world.
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  • Ecological Checklist of the Missouri Flora for Floristic Quality Assessment

    Ecological Checklist of the Missouri Flora for Floristic Quality Assessment

    Ladd, D. and J.R. Thomas. 2015. Ecological checklist of the Missouri flora for Floristic Quality Assessment. Phytoneuron 2015-12: 1–274. Published 12 February 2015. ISSN 2153 733X ECOLOGICAL CHECKLIST OF THE MISSOURI FLORA FOR FLORISTIC QUALITY ASSESSMENT DOUGLAS LADD The Nature Conservancy 2800 S. Brentwood Blvd. St. Louis, Missouri 63144 [email protected] JUSTIN R. THOMAS Institute of Botanical Training, LLC 111 County Road 3260 Salem, Missouri 65560 [email protected] ABSTRACT An annotated checklist of the 2,961 vascular taxa comprising the flora of Missouri is presented, with conservatism rankings for Floristic Quality Assessment. The list also provides standardized acronyms for each taxon and information on nativity, physiognomy, and wetness ratings. Annotated comments for selected taxa provide taxonomic, floristic, and ecological information, particularly for taxa not recognized in recent treatments of the Missouri flora. Synonymy crosswalks are provided for three references commonly used in Missouri. A discussion of the concept and application of Floristic Quality Assessment is presented. To accurately reflect ecological and taxonomic relationships, new combinations are validated for two distinct taxa, Dichanthelium ashei and D. werneri , and problems in application of infraspecific taxon names within Quercus shumardii are clarified. CONTENTS Introduction Species conservatism and floristic quality Application of Floristic Quality Assessment Checklist: Rationale and methods Nomenclature and taxonomic concepts Synonymy Acronyms Physiognomy, nativity, and wetness Summary of the Missouri flora Conclusion Annotated comments for checklist taxa Acknowledgements Literature Cited Ecological checklist of the Missouri flora Table 1. C values, physiognomy, and common names Table 2. Synonymy crosswalk Table 3. Wetness ratings and plant families INTRODUCTION This list was developed as part of a revised and expanded system for Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) in Missouri.