Flora of Badlands National Park

Heidel, Bonnie; Kostel, Grace; Marriott, Hollis

Fieldwork was conducted in 2020-2022 to collect plants that fill gaps in documenting the Badlands National Park vascular flora. It resulted in 73 Park flora additions, adding records of rare species and noxious weeds, and providing repeat collection of species that have highly disjunct distributions as present and persisting in the Park. The BADL flora currently stands at 449 species. Complete editing of the NPS database (NPSpecies) was conducted to reflect the newly-documented additions to the flora, to bring it into consistency with prior specimen documentation, and to update it with current taxonomic nomenclature at the finest taxonomic level. NPSpecies signifies the single most readily-available information on the Park flora for use by NPS staff, researchers and the general public, compatible with the BADL museum database and an online specimen database with images of BADL specimen vouchers.