Vascular plant flora of the remnant blackland prairies in Oaky Woods Wildlife Management Area, Houston County, Georgia

Castanea

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-100

  Echols, S Lee ^a,b   Zomlefer, Wendy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b North American Land Trust   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EOCENE; MAPPING METHOD; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; VASCULAR PLANT;

GEORGIA; OAKY WOODS WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA; UNITED STATES;

SILENE; SYMPHYOTRICHUM GEORGIANUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77952060593     PISSN: 00087475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2179/09-008.1     Document Type: Article

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