The Flora of Columbia, Missouri, and Vicinity: An Ecological and Systematic Study of a Local Flora

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University of Missouri, 1907 - 319 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 8 - Missouri section of the climate and crop service of the United States Weather Bureau, will furnish the data requisite for an understanding of the climate of the region.
Pàgina 255 - Daniels, FP Preliminary oecological study of the native and introduced plants of the vicinity of Columbia, Boone county, Missouri. Mo. Ag.
Pàgina 61 - A. oblongifolius are characteristic herbs. Along the cliffs of the Missouri Mentzelia oligosperma is abundant. b. Summae androsacoides. The rock-primrose association consists of diminutive rosettes, which occupy flat summits with an exceedingly shallow soil. Androsace occidentalis, Draba cuneifolia, and Alsine Texana are the chief species, with the exception of Cladonia, which is often abundant in such soils. Scutellaria campestris, S. parvula, and Astragalus distortus occur also. To these on the...
Pàgina 73 - ... WW Flora of Vermont. Contr. to the Bot. of Vermont 8, 1900. Britton, NL Catalogue of plants found in New Jersey. NJ Geol. Surv. 2, part I, 1889. Coulter, JM Botany of western Texas. US Nat'l Herb., Contr. 2, 1891-94 Cratty, RI Flora of Emmet county, Iowa. la. Acad. of Sci., Proc. II, 201-251, 1904. Daniels, FP Ecology of the flora of Sturgis, Michigan, and vicinity. Mich. Acad. of Sci., Report 4, 145-159, 1904. Daniels, FP The flora of the vicinity of Manistee, Michigan. Mich. Acad. of Sci.,...
Pàgina 3 - The flora is then one of tension between forest and prairie. The prairie vegetation is that of Illinois and Iowa ; the forest vegetation is that of the Ozark plateau of Missouri and northern Arkansas, which is much like that of Indiana, Ohio and southern Michigan except that the beech and pine are absent. Besides these two great floras there are three others, which are subordinate. The bottoms of the Missouri bring hither the alluvial flora of the great rivers of the central plain. In the ponds and...
Pàgina 77 - Flora of the Northern States and Canada; Small's Flora of the Southeastern United States; Gray's Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States...
Pàgina 47 - Veratrum Woodii. The autumnal herbs consist mainly of Compositae, among which species of Helianthus, Eupatorium, Solidago and Aster are preeminent. iii. Sylvales quercoides fraxininae. The blue ash subassociation of hill summits consists of a scraggly growth of Fraxinus quadrangulata, Quercus tinctoria, Q. alba, Q. imbricaria, and Diospyros Virginiana. Shrubs and undershrubs are frequent; Mespilus coccinea, Hypericum prolificum, Rhus aromatica, and Rhamnus lanceolata are characteristic. The herbs...
Pàgina 66 - The anthropophytic vegetation, inasmuch as it is either directly under human control, or consists of species which grow under a great variety of conditions and in a wide range of soils, does not fall readily into distinct societies. Moreover certain weeds are usual with certain crops. Thus the common chess (Bromus secalinus), and the cockle (Agrostemma Githago) occur wherever winter wheat is grown.

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