Vascular Plants of Lake Meredith National Recreation Area and Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument Potter, Moore, and Hutchinson Counties, Texas
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VASCULAR PLANTS OF LAKE MEREDITH NATIONAL RECREATION AREA AND ALIBATES FLINT QUARRIES NATIONAL MONUMENT POTTER, MOORE, AND HUTCHINSON COUNTIES, TEXAS RESULTS OF A 2002 FLORISTIC INVENTORY AND RELATED RESEARCH AND REVIEWS FINAL REPORT JANUARY 2005 REPORT PREPARED BY GUY L. NESOM AND ROBERT J. O’KENNON BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS 509 PECAN STREET FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76102-4060 Edited and submitted under cooperative agreement number CA7350010004 to U.S. National Park Service by Texas Conservation Data Center The Nature Conservancy P.O. Box 1440 San Antonio, Texas 78295-1440 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................1 INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................2 METHODS ..................................................................................................................................................2 TRIPS TO LAMR/ALFL .............................................................................................................................................2 SAMPLING METHODS AND COLLECTING SITES ............................................................................................................2 MAJOR PLANT COMMUNITIES .....................................................................................................................................3 ACTIVITIES AT BRIT..................................................................................................................................................5 CHECKLIST DEVELOPMENT ........................................................................................................................................5 SPECIES DEFINITELY, PROBABLY, AND POTENTIALLY PRESENT IN THE PARKLAND .....................................................6 RESULTS ....................................................................................................................................................7 TAXONOMIC SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................................7 FAMILY ......................................................................................................................................................................8 RARE AND UNUSUAL TAXA AND RANGE EXTENSIONS.................................................................................................8 NEW RECORDS FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS ..................................................................................................................8 SPECIES OF UNEXPECTED OCCURRENCE .....................................................................................................................9 MAJOR PLANT COMMUNITIES ..........................................................................................................9 REMAINING PROBLEMS AND SIGNIFICANT WORK....................................................................9 SIGNIFICANT AREAS REMAINING TO SURVEY..............................................................................................................9 LITERATURE TO BE STUDIED ....................................................................................................................................10 WRIGHT AND MEADOR COLLECTIONS......................................................................................................................10 ECOLOGICAL RECOMMENDATIONS .............................................................................................10 OFF-ROAD-VEHICLE USE ..........................................................................................................................................10 CONTROLLED BURN AREAS ......................................................................................................................................10 INVASIVE SPECIES ....................................................................................................................................................10 RECOMMENDED HORTICULTURAL PLANTINGS .........................................................................................................11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........................................................................................................................11 LITERATURE CITED (ANNOTATED) ...............................................................................................11 OTHER RELEVANT LITERATURE (ANNOTATED) ......................................................................13 APPENDIX 1: Names on the Phillips (1997) list not appearing on the Nesom & O’Kennon list, arranged by species....................................................................................................................................................14 APPENDIX 2: Species Probably and Potentially Occurring in the LAMR/ALFL Parkland. ...................20 2A. PROBABLY PRESENT: 14 SPP...............................................................................................................................20 2B. POTENTIALLY PRESENT (TURNER 2003): 101 SPP...............................................................................................20 2C. POTENTIALLY PRESENT (PHILLIPS 1997): 34 SPP................................................................................................22 APPENDIX 3: Major plant communities of LAMR and ALFL................................................................23 SANDHILLS and SAND FLATS.......................................................................................................................23 SANDY VALLEY BOTTOMS..........................................................................................................................24 GRAVELLY SLOPES .......................................................................................................................................25 DOLOMITE CAPROCK....................................................................................................................................25 RED SLOPES.....................................................................................................................................................26 GYPSUM OUTCROPS......................................................................................................................................26 RIVER AND CREEK SIDES.............................................................................................................................27 ii LAKESHORE.....................................................................................................................................................29 MARSH ..............................................................................................................................................................30 BORROW AREA...............................................................................................................................................30 LAWNS and MOWED ROADSIDES................................................................................................................31 OLD HOMESITES.............................................................................................................................................31 APPENDIX 4: Field list and collections account (trip/locality/collection data). ......................................33 APPENDIX 5: Collections in LAMR Herbarium (Ranger Station). .........................................................72 APPENDIX 6: Species potentially to be included on the LAMR/ALFL checklist, based on vouchers collected by Wright and Meador (1981).....................................................................................................88 APPENDIX 7: Summary of Bell et al. (2000) floristic results..................................................................89 7A. NAMES ON THE BELL ET AL. LIST (2000) NOT ACCOUNTED FOR ON THE NESOM & O’KENNON LIST..................89 7B. COMPLETE LIST OF SPECIES NOTED BY BELL ET AL. (2000)................................................................................90 APPENDIX 8: Vouchered species checklist, arranged by family.............................................................92 APPENDIX 9: Guide to vouchered taxa, arranged by species. ...............................................................108 APPENDIX 10: Non-native species (including waifs and persistent cultivars)......................................120 iii Vascular Plants of Lake Meredith National Recreation Area and Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument Potter, Moore, and Hutchinson Counties, Texas EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The primary objective of the current project was to provide an account of all vascular plant species occurring in Lake Meredith National Recreation Area (LAMR) and Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument (ALFL), based on a vouchered record for each species. The two parks are ecologically similar and geographically contiguous and are represented by a single floristic account. Also among our goals was an account of species potentially occurring in the parkland, an analyis of the flora for disjunct species, range extensions, invasive non-native species, rare taxa, and refinement of concepts of major plant communities in the parkland. A floristic inventory of the parkland records 459 naturally occurring species