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Vol. 14(1) 2003 March New York Flora Association - New York State Museum Institute Steve Young and Laura Lehtonen, Editors Correspondence and dues to NYFA, 3140 CEC, Albany, NY 12230 Join $15 - Dues $10/Yr Vol. 14 No. 1 March, 2003 e-mail: [email protected] website: www.nyflora.org NYFA Resumes Small Grants $$$ NYFA 2003 The New York Flora Association is again In the past, NYFA grants have funded a study Field Trips See Page 8 for more details! soliciting proposals for small grants to foster of the West Hills County Park in Suffolk field botany in New York State. It is estimated County (Greller and Clemants, NYFA • May 24 Bryophtye that we will have about $1,500-$2,000 newsletter, Aug, '94); a study of the flora of Workshop, Adirondack old available for grants. Below are some examples French Creek Drainage (Douglas Goldman, growth forests of the kinds of projects that NYFA would like NYFA Newsletter, June, '96); and software to to fund: develop herbarium labels for the the New York • June 14 Joralemon Woods, Natural Heritage Program. Albany Co. - Botanical studies of rare plant communities In addition, NYFA has funded portions of • June 28 Spring Pond Bog, or unusual community types such as the inland the on-line flora atlas and the NYFA website. Franklin Co. salt marshes near Syracuse. Applicants should be either NYFA - Botanical surveys of under-studied or under- members or students. Proposals should be less • August 9 Altona Flat Rock surveyed areas of the state that are likely to than five pages long and include: a needs and Gadway Sandstone Pave- produce many new county records statement, methods to be used, a schedule, a ment Barrens, Clinton Co. - Field research of under-studied groups such budget, statement of goals, expected products • September 6 Hudson High- as lichens or liverworts of research, and resume of the applicant(s). lands including Round Hill & - Studies of specific taxa Grants will be in the $200-$1,000 range, and Moodna Creek, Orange Co. - Field trips, workshops, or other educational can cover equipment, travel expenses, etc. but activities cannot be used to for salaries. Award winners - Invasive plant studies are expected to write a report for publication in - Development of botanical tools or software the NYFA Newsletter and deposit high quality - Herbarium research on New York State flora specimens in a public herbarium. Email proposals are preferred. Proposals or questions should be sent to [email protected]. Rediscovery of Spiny Naiad Inside this issue: (Najas marina L.) in New York A new botany magazine 3 Joseph M. McMullen - Terrestrial Environmental Specialists, Inc., Phoenix, NY Spiny naiad (Najas marina L.) is a state-listed dicated in the thorough account of the species Eleocharis aestuum in NY 4 endangered species previously only of histori- by Stuckey (1985), it has a rather odd distribu- cal record in New York. During the summer tion and is frequently local. He reports it as Theo plant label maker 7 of 2002 a large colony of Najas marina distributed locally across the Great Lakes re- (Najadaceae) was discovered by the authors at gion from New York to Wisconsin and further NY Plants - NY People 8 the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge west in Minnesota and the Dakotas; and in the (MNWR) in the Town of Tyre, Seneca Gulf Coast areas in Texas and Florida; the Field trip schedule 8 County. Details of that find and a historical West Indies and southwest to Mexico and perspective of the species are provided in this Central America. New on the NYFA net 9 article. Najas marina is an annual, sub- The last verified record of Najas ma- Test your plant knowledge 9 merged, rooted aquatic vascular plant. As in- rina in New York (see more on page two) NYFA March 2003 Page 1 was a 1948 Cayuga County collection of Clausen (NYNHP species in the eastern United States, north of Florida. There are data). It was historically known from Onondaga, Cayuga, Se- some potentially valid reports of the species unsubstantiated by neca, Wayne, and Monroe counties in the central portion of the voucher specimens. These include the report from the MNWR, state (NYFA 1990). These historical populations represent the Seneca County by Cowardin (1965), and potential findings by northeastern extent of the species in North America. It occurs in Rawinski from the northern end of Cayuga Lake (Stuckey 1985). no other state in the northeast U.S. No other recent records or reports are known for the state. Najas marina was first discovered in New York in Although the NYNHP’s last reported record was that of 1864 growing in Onondaga Lake by Judge George W. Clinton Clausen, a September 15, 1981 collection was made by Tom (son of Governor DeWitt Clinton and one of the first State Bota- Rawinski in Cayuga Lake, across from Canoga Marshes, Seneca nists). Clinton’s original citation is as follows: “Naias major, Falls, Seneca County. This collection went unnoticed by the Allioni. In the Onondaga Lake, and in the mouth of a stream NYNHP because the specimens were not deposited in a New and pools on the beach of the lake at York herbarium, although they were Liverpool, Onondaga County, Septem- deposited at the Gray Herbarium (T. ber 1864. G.W.C” (Clinton 1865). Weldy, pers. com.). His records and other original distribu- tional history information for New From a habitat standpoint, Na- York are discussed in Fernald (1923). jas marina is a species traditionally known from brackish, saline, subsaline, The Rev. John Paine quickly or alkaline waters of ponds, lakes, and added additional records in Onondaga marshes (Stuckey 1985, Crow and Lake. In Paine (1865), he states Hellquist 2000, Haynes 2000). Faust “Naias major, Allioni. Borders of and Roberts (1983) report that it oc- Onondaga Lake. Discovered by G. W. curred in central New York in saline Clinton, in October 1864, growing in portions of Onondaga Lake and marshes a stream emptying into the lake near in association with several halophytic Liverpool. It abounds, however, in the species. lake in water ten to twenty-five feet deep; most luxuriantly along the edge Water depths reported for Najas of a sudden descent of the bottom, at a marina populations varies. Paine (1865) distance from shore.” He further ref- noted it abounding in Onondaga Lake in erences a few locations from Florida ten to twenty feet of water. However, and states “The above habitats, with our more recent records are from shal- our own are the only stations of this low, quiet water, usually 2 to 3 feet in plant known on the American conti- depth. Substrate types are reported to be nent.” muddy or sandy. From these initial New York The currently discovered popu- findings, there were a series of addi- lation from the MNWR, Seneca County tions to the distributional record in the may be from the same area originally late 1800s and early 1900s. These reported by Dudley (1886), and the more findings were mostly from the north- recent report of Cowardin (1965). This ern portion of the Finger Lakes region large population was found growing in and the area around Rochester. Loca- shallow, quiet water on a substrate of tions include: Irondequoit Bay, Monroe County (originally in muck. Summer water depth was 0.4 to 0.6 meters. The species 1865 by Booth (as reported by Fernald 1923), and later by occurred in a dense aquatic bed; which included associated spe- Beckwith and McCauley 1896, and Beckwith et al. 1917); Se- cies of coontail (Ceratophyllum demersum), sago pondweed neca River near Savannah, Wayne County (Peck 1874); Black (Coleogeton pectinatum), bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris), Lake and foot of Cayuga Lake, Cayuga and Seneca? counties duckweed (Lemna minor and L. trisulca), and milfoil (Dudley 1886); Tully Lake, Onondaga County (an 1895 report in (Myriophyllum sp.). Goodrich 1912); Canoga marshes, Duck Lake, and Crusoe Lake, Cayuga County (Weigand and Eames 1926); Mendon Ponds, Najas marina is obviously a rare species of sporadic Monroe County (Clausen 1940); and eventually Clausen’s 1948 distribution in the northeastern United States. Its habitat require- record from Cayuga County. ments likely include a narrow range of conditions that may be negatively influenced by man’s manipulation. Saline, subsaline, As noted by Stuckey (1985), the recent records of the and alkaline habitats in areas of limited disturbance where his- species in New York are scarce. Between 1923 and 1936, torical populations occurred should be further searched for this Clausen (1936) reports that no new findings were made for the interesting aquatic species. NYFA March 2003 Page 2 References House, Homer D. 1924. Annotated list of the ferns and flower- ing plants of New York State. New York State Mu- Beckwith, Florence and Mary E. McCauley. 1894. Plants of seum Bulletin No. 254, Albany, NY. 759 pp. Monroe County, New York, and adjacent territory. Proc. Rochester Academy Science 3: 1-150. Muenscher, W. C. 1928. Vegetation of Cayuga and Seneca Lakes. pp. 243-248, list pp. 246-248. In A biological Beckwith, Florence and Mary E. McCauley and Milton S. Bax- survey of the Oswego River system supplemental to ter. 1917. Plants of Monroe County, New York, and seventeenth annual report 1927. Conservation Depart- adjacent territory. Second Supplementary List. Proc. ment, State of New York, Biological Survey No. 2 Rochester Academy Science 5: 59-121. (1927). Albany, NY. 248 pp. Clausen, Robert T. 1936. Studies in the genus Najas in the NYFA. 1990. Atlas of New York State Flora. New York Flora northern United States. Rhodora 38: 333-345. Association. New York State Museum Institute, Al- bany, NY. 496 pp. Clausen, Robert T. 1940. Aquatic vegetation of the Lake On- tario watershed.
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