Vascular flora of Little River Canyon National Preserve, Cherokee and Dekalb Counties, Alabama
Whetstone RD, Threlkeld SJ, Newsome CC, Spaulding DD, Higginbotham JW, Ballard JM. 1997. Vascular flora of Little River Canyon National Preserve, Cherokee and Dekalb Counties, Alabama. Technical Report NPS. National Park Service, Southeast Region
Results of a study of the vascular plants of Little River Canyon National Preserve. The bulk of the report (91 pages) consists of a catalogue of plant species which gives the name, the reference, and notes on habitat, species status etc. Another large section (58 pages) is taken up by the bibliography. The rest of the report consists of a brief overview of the characteristics of the region (geology, climate, etc), a description of the plant communities, comments about species of conservation concern, a section on life forms (based on life cycle and morphologic features), a section on flowering and fruiting phenology and a section on distribution patterns.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Whetstone, R; Threlkeld, S; Newsome, C; Spaulding, D; Higginbotham, Jeri; Ballard, J
- Date of Issue
- 1997
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Southeast Region
- Units
- LIRI
- Keywords
- Biogeography, Checklist, Habitats, inventory, LIRI, Phenology, Plant Communities, Plant Studies, Plants, Species Status