A baseline vascular plant survey for Ocmulgee National Monument, Bibb County, Macon, Georgia
Zomlefer WB, Giannasi DE, Nelson JB, Gaddy LL. 2013. A baseline vascular plant survey for Ocmulgee National Monument, Bibb County, Macon, Georgia. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. 7(1):453-473
Ocmulgee National Monument is administered by the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, and comprises 283.9 ha (701.5 acres) in two disjunct land parcels located in Macon, Bibb County, central Georgia. The park is significant for earthen mounds and other archeological sites associated with the Native American Mississippian cultures that settled along the Ocmulgee River. A floristic survey was conducted to provide Park Service personnel with a baseline vouchered plant species checklist, supplemented with salient information such as relative abundance, locality data, and general community type. Identifications of vouchers from prior surveys were also verified and incorporated into the annotated list that now totals 436 species of vascular plants. The five largest families are Poaceae (53 spp.), Asteraceae (36 spp.), Cyperaceae (33 spp.), Fabaceae (21 spp.), and Rosaceae (18 spp.). According to state rankings, one special concern species, Cayaponia quinqueloba, occurs within the study area, and approximately 24 percent of the non-cultivated flora is exotic. A vouchered checklist of vascular plants and descriptions of the general plant communities are included, as well as a list of unvouchered species previously reported from the park. final vascular plant inventory for Ocmulgee National Monument
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Zomlefer, Wendy; Giannasi, David; Nelson, John; Gaddy, L
- Units
- OCMU
- Keywords
- Floristic inventory, Ocmulgee National Monument, Southeast Coast Network, Vascular Plants