Missouri Bladderpod Monitoring at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield

Haack-Gaynor J , Young C , Brown JR . Missouri Bladderpod Monitoring at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield. 1997. National Park Service

The Missouri bladderpod is a small plant with yellow, 4-petaled flowers. This plant takes its name from the small, round, bladder-like fruits that form after pollination. The plant is short ranging roughly in height between the size of a golf tee and a soup can. These plants grow in glades in Missouri and Arkansas. Glades, sometimes also called balds, occur in areas where the soil is very shallow. Trees only grow in places within glades where their roots find cracks in the bedrock. Therefore, much of the glade is covered in herbs and grasses like a prairie. Within glades, the Missouri bladderpod grows best in very rocky areas where herbs and grass are low in height and sparse. Monitoring Questions and Approach -Where are Missouri bladderpod populations found within the battlefield? -How many individual plants make up each population and how does that change over time? -Within selected glades, how is the habitat changing, especially the amount of Eastern red cedar, a tree which may spread in glades?

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Project
Authors
Haack-Gaynor, Jennifer; Young, Craig; Brown, James
Publisher
National Park Service
Units
WICR
Keywords
23181, 823238, Federally Threatened, Heartland Network, HTLN, Lesquerella filiformis, long-term monitoring, Missouri Bladderpod, Monitoring, National Park Service, NPS, Physaria filiformis, plant, Sensitive, T&E

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