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Flora Of Arkansas
Geobotanically, Arkansas belongs to the North American Atlantic Region. Rare Species A * Amorpha ouachitensis - Ouachita leadplant * Amorpha paniculata - Panicled indigobush *Amsonia hubrichtii - Ouachita blue star * Astragalus soxmaniorum - Soxmans' milk-vetch B C * Calamagrostis porteri ssp. insperata - Ofer hollow reed grass * Calamovilfa arcuata - A sandgrass * Carex decomposita - Epiphytic sedge * Carex latebracteata - Waterfall's sedge * Carex shinnersii - Shinner's sedge * Carex timida - A sedge * Castanea pumila var. ozarkensis - Ozark chinquapin * Chelone obliqua var. speciosa - Rose turtlehead * Cunila origanoides - American dittany, mountain oregano * Cyperus grayoides - Umbrella sedge * Cypripedium kentuckiense - Southern lady's-slipper D * Delphinium newtonianum - Moore's larkspur * Delphinium treleasei - Trelease's larkspur * Dodecatheon frenchii - French's shootingstar *Draba aprica - Open-ground whitlow-grass *Datura E * Echinacea paradoxa - Bush's yellow ...
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Delphinium Treleasei
''Delphinium treleasei'', commonly known as named glade larkspur or Trelease's larkspur, is a perennial flowering plant found it temperate areas of the eastern United States. It is native to Missouri and Arkansas where it is often situated in limestone glades but is not common in North America. It is endemic to Ozark highlands in eight southwestern Missouri counties and eight counties in northwestern Arkansas. ''D. treleasei'' is a vascular, seed plant, part of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). The name ''Delphinium treleasei'' originates from the Greek "''delphis''" which means dolphin in reference to the flower shape of many buttercups and the specific epithet "''treleasei''" honors William Trelease who was director of the Missouri Botanical Garden from 1889 to 1912. Description ''Delphinium treleasei'' grows tall and has loose, terminal racemes of blue to blush-purple flowers. These bloom in spring, usually May to June. Flowers are long, comples, asymmetrical and have ...
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Heuchera Villosa Var
''Heuchera'' ( or ) is a genus of largely evergreen perennial plants in the family Saxifragaceae. All species are native to North America except for ''Heuchera sichotensis'', native to the Russian Far East. Common names include alumroot and coral bells. Description ''Heuchera'' have palmately lobed leaves on long petioles, and a thick, woody rootstock. The genus was named after Johann Heinrich von Heucher (1677–1746), an 18th-century German physician,''Heuchera''.
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Helianthus Occidentalis Ssp
''Helianthus'' () is a genus comprising around 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae commonly known as sunflowers. Except for three South American species, the species of ''Helianthus'' are native to North America and Central America. The best-known species is the common sunflower (''Helianthus annuus''). This and other species, notably Jerusalem artichoke (''H. tuberosus''), are cultivated in temperate regions and some tropical regions, as food crops for humans, cattle, and poultry, and as ornamental plants. The species ''H. annuus'' typically grows during the summer and into early fall, with the peak growth season being mid-summer. Several perennial ''Helianthus'' species are grown in gardens, but have a tendency to spread rapidly and can become aggressive. On the other hand, the whorled sunflower, ''Helianthus verticillatus'', was listed as an endangered species in 2014 when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final rule p ...
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Harperella Nodosa
''Harperella'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. Its only species is ''Harperella nodosa'' (synonym ''Ptilimnium nodosum''), known as piedmont mock bishopweed and harperella. It is native to riparian environments in the Southeastern United States, found at sites in West Virginia, Maryland, several Southeastern states such as Alabama and North Carolina, and the Ouachita National Forest in Arkansas and Oklahoma. As ''Ptilimnium nodosum'', it was placed on the United States' Endangered Species List in 1988.Center for Plant Conservation


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Hamamelis Vernalis
''Hamamelis vernalis'', the Ozark witchhazel (or witch-hazel) is a species of flowering plant in the witch-hazel family Hamamelidaceae, native to the Ozark Plateau in central North America, in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. It is a large deciduous shrub growing to tall. Description ''Hamamelis vernalis'' spreads by stoloniferous root sprouts. The leaves are oval, long and broad, cuneate to slightly oblique at the base, acute or rounded at the apex. They have a wavy-toothed or shallowly lobed margin, and a short, stout petiole long. The leaves are dark green above, and glaucous beneath, and often persist into the early winter. The flowers are deep to bright red, rarely yellow, with four ribbon-shaped petals long and four short stamens, and grow in clusters. Flowering begins in mid winter and continues until early spring. The Latin specific epithet means "spring-flowering". The fruit is a hard woody capsule long, which splits explosively at the apex at maturity one yea ...
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Witch-hazels or witch hazels (''Hamamelis'') are a genus of flowering plants in the family Hamamelidaceae, with three species in North America ('' H. ovalis'', '' H. virginiana'', and '' H. vernalis''), and one each in Japan ('' H. japonica'') and China ('' H. mollis''). The North American species are occasionally called winterbloom. Description The witch-hazels are deciduous shrubs or (rarely) small trees growing to 3 to 7.5 m tall, even more rarely to 12 m tall. The leaves are alternately arranged, oval, 5 to 15 cm long, and 2.5 to 10 cm wide, with a smooth or wavy margin. The genus name, ''Hamamelis'', means "together with fruit", referring to the simultaneous occurrence of flowers with the maturing fruit from the previous year. ''H. virginiana'' blooms in September–November while the other species bloom from January–March. Each flower has four slender strap-shaped petals 1 to 2 cm long, pale to dark yellow, orange, or red. The fruit is ...
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Galium Arkansanum
''Galium arkansanum'', the Arkansas bedstraw, is a plant species in the Rubiaceae. It is native to the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains of Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northea ... in the United States. References External linksPhoto of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Missouri, ''Galium arkansanum''

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Fothergilla Major
''Fothergilla major'', the large witch alder or mountain witch alder, is a species of flowering plant in the genus '' Fothergilla'', family Hamamelidaceae, that is native to woodland and swamps in the Allegheny Mountains and southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States. It is a deciduous shrub growing to with fragrant white bottlebrush flowers appearing along with, or before, the glossy leaves. The leaves often turn brilliant shades of red and orange in autumn. ''Fothergilla major'' prefers full sun to part shade and is disease and insect resistant. It thrives in moist, acidic soils, but is fairly drought tolerant. It is hardy in USDA hardiness zones 4–8. This plant is named for the English physician and plant collector John Fothergill (1712-1780). The Latin specific epithet ''major'' means "larger". It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established award for plants by the Briti ...
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Eriocaulon Koernickianum
''Eriocaulon koernickianum'', common names dwarf pipewort or gulf pipewort, is a plant species native to Oklahoma, Arkansas, Georgia and Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we .... It occurs in moist, sandy acidic soils in seeps and bogs. ''Eriocaulon koernickianum'' is an herb up to 8 cm (3.2 inches) tall, reproducing sexually and also by means of lateral vegetative shoots. Leaves are narrow, up to 5 cm (2 inches) long. Flowers are clustered into a head at the top of a long flowering stalk. Heads are up to 4 mm in diameter, gray to olive, lacking the ciliate hairs common in many other species of the genus.Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States Monocotyledons 1–712. The University of Georgia Press ...
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Echinacea Sanguinea
''Echinacea sanguinea'', the sanguine purple coneflower, is a herbaceous perennial native to open sandy fields and open pine woods and prairies in eastern Texas, southeastern Oklahoma, Louisiana, and southwestern Arkansas. It is the southernmost ''Echinacea'' species. The specific epithet ''sanguinea'', which is Latin for "blood", refers to the color of the petals. ''Echinacea sanguinea'' is herbaceous perennial up to 120 cm (3 ft) tall with an unbranched stem. The alternate leaves are typically close to the ground, growing 10–25 cm (4–10 in) long and 6 mm (¼ in) wide, with the upper leaves having long hairs. Each stem has one rose-pink to pale purple flower head, up to 5 cm (2 in) long and 12 mm (½ in) wide, with 10–20 ray flowers that conspicuously droop. The 2.5 cm (1 in) cone-shaped center containing the disc floret Asteraceae () is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known ...
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Echinacea Paradoxa
''Echinacea paradoxa'', the yellow coneflower, Bush's purple coneflower,''Echinacea paradoxa''
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or Ozark coneflower, is a n species of in the family . It is native to southern ,