Annotated checklist of vascular flora, Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Fertig W and Atwood ND. 2009. Annotated checklist of vascular flora, Timpanogos Cave National Monument. Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/NCPN/NRTR—2009/167. National Park Service
In 2005–2006, the National Park Service’s Northern Colorado Plateau Network received funding to develop a revised checklist of the vascular plant flora of Timpanogos Cave National Monument. This entailed a thorough review of existing literature, re-examination of specimens from the Timpanogos Cave National Monument herbarium and other state and national museum collections, and additional field work to corroborate unverified species reports or locate new species. Based on this study, 235 vascular plant taxa have been confirmed (with vouchers) as occurring in the monument. Another 37 species formerly considered part of the monument flora have now been shown to be falsely reported. The current flora of Timpanogos Cave National Monument represents 6.5% of the known flora of Utah and 12.6% of the flora of the Utah–Wyoming Rocky Mountains ecoregion within Utah. At least eight of these species are considered species of concern by the state’s natural heritage program. Introduced plants make up 26.8% of the monument flora (63 species), of which only three species are considered noxious weeds by the State of Utah. Further surveys in Timpanogos Cave National Monument are likely to find additional new species (about 285 are known from similar habitats outside the monument boundary), especially among late-season flowering, weedy, or wetland taxa. (From Report Abstract)
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Fertig, Walter; Atwood, N.
- Date of Issue
- 2009-02
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- NCPN , NRSS , TICA
- Keywords
- NCPN Vascular Plant Inventory, Plant Studies, Vascular Plants, Vegetation