The vascular flora and plant communities of Lawther-Deer Park Prairie, Harris County, Texas, U.S.A.
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https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v12.i2.976Resumen
Estudios de campo en Lawther - Deer Park Prairie Preserve, condado de Harris, Texas, un área de aproximadamente 21 ha (51 acres) del área de vegetación de la ecorregión Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes de Texas (al oeste de la ecorregión Western Gulf Coast Plains que cubre hasta el oeste de Louisiana), han dado como resultado una descripción de las asociaciones de vegetación y una lista de verificación anotada de la flora vascular. Las siguientes asociaciones de la comunidad de plantas ocurren en la propiedad: 1) Upper Texas Coast Ingleside Sandy Wet Prairie; (2) Eastern gamagrass - Switchgrass - Yellow Indiangrass Herbaceous Vegetation; (3) Gulf Cordgrass Herbaceous Vegetation; (4) Texas Gulf Coast Live Oak - Sugarberry Forest; (5) Little Bluestem - Slender Bluestem - Big Bluestem Herbaceous Vegetation, y (6) estanques depresivos naturales. La lista de verificación incluye 407 especies que pertenecen a 247 géneros y 86 familias. Cuarenta y seis especies de esta lista no eran nativas. Las familias mejor representadas (con el siguiente número de especies) fueron Poaceae (84), Asteraceae (68), Cyperaceae (33) y Fabaceae (19). Las especies endémicas representantes de la ecorregión Western Gulf Coast Plains incluyen Helenium drummondii, Oenothera lindheimeri, Liatris acidota y Rudbeckia texana. Una especie endémica de Texas, Chloris texensis, que también es una Especie de Mayor Necesidad de Conservación estuvo presente. Otras especies notables fueron Andropogon capillipes, Digitaria texana y Platanthera nivea.
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