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Subject(s)

• Plants—North Carolina—Nags Head Woods [Browse]
• Plants—North Carolina—Identification [Browse]

Related name

• New York Botanical Garden [Browse]
• Nature Conservancy (U.S.) [Browse]

Series

• Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden ; v. 103. [More in this series]
• Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 0077-8931 ; v. 103 [More in this series]

Summary note

The Nags Head Woods complex (Outer Banks, Dare County, North Carolina) hosts the best remaining example of exceedingly rare, mid-Atlantic maritime deciduous forest and also includes an extensive system of open dunes, evergreen forest, interdunal ponds, swamps, and marshes. Over 550 plant species in 122 families have been reported from the site, constituting nearly three-quarters of the known Outer Banks flora. This manual was developed based on field and herbarium study and seeks to document the rich flora of Nags Head Woods. Keys, descriptions, and illustrations, as well as notes on phenology, habitat, and the broader distribution of included taxa on the Outer Banks, are provided. Relevant herbarium specimens known to the author from the main depositories of Outer Banks collections, as well as important literature reports, are cited after the species descriptions.

Notes

"Issued on 11 June 2010."--T.p. verso.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.

Issuing body

Published in association with the Nature Conservancy.

Contents

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Structure and method
• Important collectors and collections
• Climate
• Floristic summary
• Plant communities
• Keys to the major vascular plant groups
• Ferns and fern allies
• Gymnosperms
• Basal angiosperms
• Monocots
• Magnoliids and higher dicots.

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ISBN

• 9780893275006
• 089327500X

LCCN

2011420539

OCLC

642045823

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