The comparative autecology of endemic, globally-rare, and geographically-widespread, common plant species: Three case studies

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 384-399

  Baskin, Jerry M ^a   Snyder, Kristin M ^a   Walck, Jeffrey L ^a   Baskin, Carol C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; ECHINACEA TENNESSEENSIS; ILIAMNA COREI; ILIAMNA RIVULARIS; SOLIDAGO ALTISSIMA; SOLIDAGO SHORTII;

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