Vascular flora of C. Bickham-Dickson/Red River Education and Research Park, Caddo Parish, Louisiana: An oxbow lake community, with comments on exotic/native species ratios

Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1389-1406

  MacRoberts, Michael H ^a,b   MacRoberts, Barbara R ^a,b   Hanson, Gary M ^b  

^a Bog Research   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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