List of Rare and Endangered Species in the CSB/SJU Bailey Herbarium
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List of Rare and Endangered Species in the CSB/SJU Bailey Herbarium Cody Groen Saint John’s University P.O. Box 0559 Collegeville MN 56321 INTRODUCTION endangered or threated, but is extremely uncommon in Minnesota or has unique or highly specific The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources habitat requirements and deserves careful (MNDNR) is conducting an analysis of the plants monitoring of its status.” Species that can be and fungi listed as extinct, endangered, threatened, included in this category include those organisms or of special concern. Currently 60 species are listed that were once of either the endangered or as endangered, 47 as Threartened, and 111 of threatened assessment but have been deemed Special Concern (218 total). This analysis is dated protected or populations have increased. Special to 1988. Reassement hopes to update the list by Concern species can also be categorized from those either putting new species on, moving species species that are on the edge of their natural range in around on their severity of concern, or removing Minnesota or have a small number of individuals in species from the list. To provide additional areas. This category is given to those organisms historical context, the MNDNR requested that state whose Minnesota population has been assessed and herbaria look over their collections and compile found to have trouble characteristics. In response to data on the species of special concern. The the MNDNR’s request, a search of the College of MNDNR’s main concern was to update Saint Bendict and Saint John’s University Bailey Minnesota’s Endangered Flora and Fauna list that Herbarium (Index Herbariorum ‘CSB’) for 408 was published in 1988 and edited by Barbara Coffin species whose Minnesota population status was to and Lee Pfannmuller. be assessed by the MN DNR. Some confusion can arise when speaking about rare vs. endangered plants. The Minnesota legislation METHODS defines endangered, threatened, and special concern species in Minnesota State Statute 84.0895. The A list of 408 vascular and non-vascular plants was statute states that a species which is endangered received from the Minnesota DNR of various levels (En) for the state of Minnesota is defined as of assessed condition of currently being labeled as “threatened with extinction throughout all or a endangered, threatened, or of special concern significant portion of its range” (Coffin 1988). This (Appendix/Table 1). Each requested species was definition is given to those species of organisms that checked to see if a record of it exists in the are the closest to extinction and defines the most CSB/SJU Bailey Herbarium. Herbarium specimens severe condition. Threatened (Th) is defined by the were checked and data from each were compiled in Minnesota Statute as “a species that is likely to a master Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet file, become endangered within the foreseeable future including dates of collection, locality details, and throughout all or a significant portion of its range”. the name(s) of collector(s) along with other locality This condition is given to those species which are information. If the locality of species could not be deemed to have real potential to become close to confidently placed in Minnesota it was left out of extinction within a relatively short amount of time. data collection. As the CSB/SJU Bailey Herbarium This is the second most concerned condition the collection has many specimens collected and MN DNR can give to an assessed species. Special identified by non-experts (such as undergraduates), Concern (SC) is defined as a species that is “not the identifications could potentially be incorrect. In this event, the record was either omitted from the Some species had duplicates yielding a total of 159 dataset or this was noted in the data compilation. records for the assessed species (Appendix 3). The records were collected by numerous individuals RESULTS & DISCUSSION (Table 1). 58 collectors contributed records to the dataset in total. Michael D. Lee of the MNDNR The purpose of this study was to determine unique collected 25 species from the requested 408 with 38 records for the Minnesota’s Department of Natural specimen records being added to the compilation of Resources from the CSB/SJU Bailey Herbarium for data (23.9% of the total) for the tracked species species that were set to be re-assessed in their records in the Herbarium. Sister Remberta assessments of Endangered, Threatened, and Westkaemper was the second most frequent Special Concern and species rare to the Minnesota contributor with collections of 18 species and 23 region. This study resulted in an interesting data set. specimen records (14.47%) being added to the compilation of data in the Bailey collection. Welby Many of the 408 species checked for record R. Smith collected 15 different tracked species and (Appendix 1) were lacking from the Bailey contributed 18 specimen records (11.3%) to the data Herbarium. Of the 408 species, there were records making him the third most frequent collector of for 83 species or 20.3% of the requested species had tracked species in the CSB/SJU Bailey Herbarium. record in the Bailey Herbarium (Appendix 2). Table 1: List of Collectors with number of done by that collector. Species Specimens Percent of Total Collector Collected Collected Specimens (%) A.W.T 2 3 1.9 Ackerman, Dominic D.* 1 1 0.6 Axtmann, Marie* 2 2 1.3 Bach, Melissa J.* 1 1 0.6 Barb, Ann, Loriene, Jim 1 1 0.6 Barghusen, Jessica* 1 1 0.6 Barnd, Joshua* 1 1 0.6 Broker, John 1 1 0.6 Carr, Joseph T.* 1 1 0.6 Chandonnet, Z.L. 3 3 1.9 Clark, Matthew 1 1 0.6 Cofell, Laoraineie 1 1 0.6 Coyne, Mable 2 2 1.3 Daninger, Scott* 1 1 0.6 Foede, Mack* 1 1 0.6 Fr. Gerard, Fr. Cletus, Fr. Gunther 1 1 0.6 Fr. Gunther & Mr. Miller 1 1 0.6 Franta, Peter 1 1 0.6 Galkins, W. W. 1 1 0.6 Haas, M.W.* 1 1 0.6 Hansen, J. 2 2 1.3 Haqemeier, Brad. And Kelsey McKay 1 1 0.6 Healy, Luke.* 1 1 0.6 Hynes, P. 1 1 0.6 Jas Hansen 1 1 0.6 Lee, Michael D. 24 37 23.1 Lee, Michael D., Erika Rowe 1 1 0.6 Leiner, Rosalie* 1 1 0.6 Mack, Foede * 1 1 0.6 McNeilus, V.E. 1 1 0.6 Meyer, MaryLynn 1 1 0.6 Miller, Donald A. 1 1 0.6 Moschetz, Jeff L. 1 1 0.6 Myhre, Karen M. 1 3 1.9 Olsen, Mike 1 1 0.6 Oschwald, Zack* 1 1 0.6 Pettit, Jeffery A. 1 1 0.6 Philp, Dan* 2 2 1.3 Ploeger, Jon* 1 1 0.6 Pyatt, Jill C.* 1 1 0.6 Radabaugh D.K. & Price, M.M.* 1 1 0.6 Recker, K.M., K.A. Deutsch, E.M. 1 1 0.6 Anderson Rev. Joe 1 1 0.6 Saupe, S.G. 1 1 0.6 Siemers, Ross 3 3 1.9 Smith, Welby R. 15 18 11.3 Snee, Frank* 1 1 0.6 SR 1 1 0.6 Sr. Jeamette. OSB. 1 1 0.6 Tempel, Jerry 1 1 0.6 Toussaint, Joe. Chris Rose 1 1 0.6 Twohy, James 1 1 0.6 Weber, Mary E. 2 2 1.3 Weitzel, Thomas 1 1 0.6 Wentworth, Todd 1 1 0.6 Westkaemper, Sister Remberta 18 23 14.4 Zaczkowski, Dr. N. 2 4 2.5 Zaczkowski, Mack, Foede 1 3 1.9 N/A 7 9 5.6 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 Number Number Recordsof 30 20 10 0 N/A Rice Pine Cass Lake Todd Scott Becker Roseau Carlton Stearns Ramsey Winona Douglas Fillmore Norman Nicollet Wadena Olmsted Beltrami Faribault Morrison Redwood Hennepin Sherburne Clearwater Mahnomen Washington Koochiching Minnesota Counties Figure 1: Compilation of number of records in the CSB/SJU Bailey Herbarium per county, data requested by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Of the 159 records in the Bailey Herbarium 90 were Michael D. Lee collected 20 specimens. The collected from Stearns County (Figure 1). 10 county with the second most number of vouchers records gave no information for County Locality, came from Todd County with a total of 6. but 4 were suspected to be from Stearns County as well. As the CSB/SJU Bailey Herbarium’s collection is usually augmented by local collectors, the result of Of the vouchers that were from Stearns County, 30 having a majority of this data set being taken from specimens were collected around Collegeville and Stearns County is logical. The majority of Saint John’s University and 17 were collected in St. collections came from the area around the campuses Joseph around the campus of the College of Saint of the College of Saint Benedicts and Saint John’s Benedicts. In Stearns County, Sister Remberta University, which is also logical as a significant Westkaemper collected 21 of the 90 specimens in portion of the collection comes from historical and the data compilation from Stearns County and contemporary faculty and student collectors. 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 Number Number first of records 20 10 0 Increments in time (10 years) Figure 2: Frist records of the 83 species listed on Appendix 2 from the CSB/SJU Bailey Herbarium (CSB) as requested from the Minnesota DNR (three omited for lack of data) listed cummulatively. Figure 2 is a bar graph that depicts by year when Endangered, Threatened, and Special Concern. each of the 83 species were first recorded.