Additions to the vascular flora of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia
Steury BW. 2011. Additions to the vascular flora of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Banisteria. 37:3-20
A total of 298 taxa new to the vascular flora of the George Washington Memorial Parkway (GWMP), in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, are documented. Additionally, 13 taxa previously known only from historical specimens are documented as still extant within GWMP. These records bring the known flora of the GWMP to 1313 taxa. Of these, 79 are known only from historical specimens. Seventeen adventive taxa may represent the first records for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and one is a first record for the District of Columbia. A total of 21 additional taxa are first records for Fairfax County and six are new records for Arlington County. Fifteen of the newly documented taxa are listed as rare within the Commonwealth, bringing the total to 37 state-rare plants found within GWMP. Taxa non-native to the District of Columbia and vicinity comprise 28.6% of the flora.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Steury, Brent
- Units
- GWMP , NCR
- Keywords
- Arlington County, beetles, biodiversity, Bug Lab, District of Columbia, entomology, Fairfax County, flora, insects, Maryland, Montgomery County, National Parks, new state records, rove beetles, Staphylinidae, vascular plants, Virginia