ISSN 1536-7738 Oklahoma Native Plant Record Journal of the Oklahoma Native Plant Society Volume 8, Number 1, December 2008 1 Oklahoma Native Plant Record Journal of the Oklahoma Native Plant Society 2435 South Peoria Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 Volume 8, Number 1, December 2008 ISSN 1536-7738 Managing Editor: Sheila Strawn Technical Editors: Paula Shryock & Erin Miller Technical Advisor: Bruce Hoagland CD-ROM Producer: Chadwick Cox Website: www.usao.edu/~onps/ The purpose of ONPS is to encourage the study, protection, propagation, appreciation and use of the native plants of Oklahoma. Membership in ONPS is open to any person who supports the aims of the Society. ONPS offers individual, student, family, and life memberships. 2008 Officers and Board Members President: Kim Shannon Anne Long Award Chair: Patricia Folley Vice-president: Gloria Caddell ONPS Service Award Chair: Sue Amstutz Secretary: Paula Shryock Historian: Sharon McCain Treasurer: Mary Korthase Librarian: Bonnie Winchester Membership Database: Tina Julich Website Manager: Chadwick Cox Past President: Constance Murray Photo Poster Curators: Board Members: Sue Amstutz & Marilyn Stewart Monica Macklin Color Oklahoma Chair: Tina Julich Lynn Michael Conservation Chair: Chadwick Cox Constance Murray Mailings Chair: Karen Haworth Stanley Rice Merchandise Chair: Susan Chambers Bruce Smith Nominating Chair: Paula Shryock Ron Tyrl Photography Contest Chair: Tina Julich Central Chapter Chair: Marilyn Stewart Publicity Chairs: Cross-timbers Chapter Chair: Kim Shannon & Marilyn Stewart Paul Richardson Wildflower Workshop Chair: Mycology Chapter Chair: Clark Ovrebo Constance Murray Northeast Chapter Chair: Sue Amstutz Cover photo: Courtesy of Patricia Folley Gaillardia Editor: Chadwick Cox Helianthus maximilianii Schrad. Harriet Barclay Award Chair: Maximilian’s Sunflower Rahmona Thompson 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.17.100057 2 Oklahoma Native Plant Record Volume 8, Number 1 Table of Contents Foreword . 3 A Floristic Study of the Vascular Plants of the Gypsum Hills and Redbed Plains Area of Southwestern Oklahoma, M.S. Thesis. 4 Dr. Susan C. Barber Updated List of Taxa for Vascular Plants of the Gypsum Hills and Redbed Plains Area of Southwestern Oklahoma. .37 Dr. Susan C. Barber Updated Flora of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge . 45 Mr. Keith A. Carter, Mr. Pablo Rodriguez, and Dr. Michael T. Dunn Common Spring Mushrooms of Oklahoma . .57 Dr. Clark L. Ovrebo and Dr. Nancy S. Weber Fern Habitats and Rare Ferns in Oklahoma . .61 Dr. Bruce A. Smith Tribute to Paul Buck . .67 Dr. Constance L. Murray Five Year Index to Oklahoma Native Plant Record . inside back cover Oklahoma Native Plant Record 3 Volume 8, Number 1, December 2008 Foreword This has been a very busy year for our authors, reviewers, and editors. Thank you for waiting patiently for Volume 8. I think you will agree that it was worth the wait. Susan Barber has provided our historic article for 2008. Her thesis, “A Floristic Study of the Vascular Plants of the Gypsum Hills and Redbed Plains Area of Southwestern Oklahoma”, is long overdue to be published . She researched the relationships between soil and vegetation types, just one of the underlying causes for the great biodiversity in Oklahoma. Her thorough work provides much more to the reader than the title reveals. It is a data-rich source for future botany research, and we know you’ll enjoy it. “Updated Flora of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge” by Keith Carter, Pablo Rodriguez, and Michael Dunn marks a new step in botanical research in Oklahoma. The Herbarium at Cameron University [CAMU] is now housing the Refuge’s plant specimens, thanks to a grant and a lot of work by students, faculty, and staff at Cameron University. This is the first effort to update information regarding species at the Refuge since we published the late Paul Buck’s 1977 checklist of the flora in 2002. Hopefully, it will spur interest in keeping the Refuge list up-to-date and bring recognition to a very deserving state institution’s herbarium. We also hope that this will mark the beginning of a cooperative relationship between the Society and our state institutions’ herbaria. One of the main goals of the Record is the initiation of new sources of data for biodiversity research in Oklahoma, and this paper is evidence that we are reaching that goal. It’s been several years since we’ve published Clark Ovrebo’s popular paper about lawn mushrooms. “Spring Mushrooms of Oklahoma” by Ovrebo and Nancy Weber is a new, enlightening and enjoyable article with colorful photos from which we can learn a great deal more about the intriguing kingdom of Fungi. We’ve also been waiting several years for “Ferns and Rare Ferns in Oklahoma” by Bruce Smith. It’s finally here with photos to help identify them. Hopefully, a checklist of Oklahoma ferns will be forthcoming. Finally, we have a Memorial to Paul Buck, long-time board member and promoter of the Society. Constance Murray has provided us with a look at what it was like to have a professional, as well as a personal relationship, with someone so many of us have known and respected, someone who had a tremendous impact on the study of botany and ecology in Oklahoma. Sheila Strawn, Editor 4 Oklahoma Native Plant Record Volume 8, Number 1, December 2008 A Floristic Study of the Vascular Plants of the Gypsum Hills and Redbed Plains Area of Southwestern Oklahoma Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science, December 1975 Susan C. Barber Currently, Associate Provost and Professor of Biology Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK 73106-1493 E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT The vascular floras of gypsum and redbed soils in southwestern Oklahoma were collected and studied during the growing season (April-October) of 1975. A total of 359 taxa and 230 genera and 63 families were included in the study. Thirteen taxa are considered to be gypsophiles and indicators of gypsum soils in Oklahoma. Nine taxa are considered calicoles occurring only on gypsum and limestone derived soils. Two introduced species, Bromus catharticus Vahl (syn. = Bromus willdenowii) and Caesalpinia gilliesii, are believed to be new additions to Oklahoma’s flora. Editor’s note: The abstract and a brief summary of this thesis was published as “Floristic Components of the Gypsum Hills and Redbed Plains Area of Southwestern Oklahoma” in The Southwestern Naturalist 24(3):431- 437 September 15, 1979 and is included here by permission (SS) INTRODUCTION collected, it seems that the floristic components of the gypsum Gypsum outcrops and soils often and redbed areas could prove to be support a distinctive flora. These very interesting; therefore a endemic species presumably evolved study of the flora of the region in response to the rigorous was undertaken. The objectives of conditions of high calcium sulfate the study were (1) to describe the content, drought, etc. Turner floras of gypsum and redbed plains (1973) reports numerous new geomorphic provinces in gypsophilous species from Mexico. southwestern Oklahoma, (2) to In southwestern Oklahoma gypsum determine similarities and deposits are quite extensive and differences in plant taxa of the Waterfall (1950) listed new two provinces, (3) to determine if additions to the Oklahoma flora the gypsite region taxa are unique from Harmon and Jackson counties. to it or are characteristic of the This situation may parallel the redbed plains and/or gypsum well studied endemism on floras, and (4) to determine if serpentine soils of California there are differences in the (Kruckeberg, 1951). Since gypsum floras of edaphic areas within the often supports a distinctive group gypsum province. of plants and the southwestern The study area is located part of the state has been seldom within Harmon, Jackson, and Greer Barber, S.C. https://doi.org/10.22488/okstate.17.100059 5 Oklahoma Native Plant Record Volume 8, Number 1, December 2008 counties which are located in the Specimens of the vascular flora of southwestern corner of Oklahoma, flora of the area were collected the county seats being Hollis, and identified. Collecting trips Altus, and Mangum, respectively. were made during the growing The area is located approximately season starting April, 1975 and 55 miles northwest of Wichita ending October, 1975. An attempt Falls, Texas. The total land area was made to collect the plants in is 1,272,256 acres or 1.988 square different stages of flowering and miles. Oklahoma Highway 9 near the fruiting. Voucher specimens were Salt Fork of the Red River deposited in the Oklahoma State constitutes the northern boundary Herbarium (OKLA) and the Bebb for the collection area; the Red Herbarium of the University of River, the southern boundary; the Oklahoma (OKL). North Fork of the Red River, the Geological and ecological eastern boundary; and the considerations as well as a list Oklahoma-Texas state line, the of the 359 taxa are presented in western boundary (Figure 1). subsequent chapters of this study. Three east-west transects were established in order to include GEOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY major soil types and the distinct geomorphic provinces. Locations of Curtis and Ham (1972) describe the collection sites established twenty-six geomorphic provinces along the transects are listed for Oklahoma. Of these twenty-six below and are indicated by the regions, three are found in the circles on the map of Figure 1.