Field Guide to the Limestone Cedar Glades

There are a number of wonderful sites which collect pictures of and information about plants of the mid-south. The three you may find most useful are:

  • The National Resources Conservation Services - Plants Database (http://plants.usda.gov/)
  • Wildflowers of the Southeast US (2bnthewild.com)
  • Vanderbilt University's Bioimages (http://bioimages.cas.vanderbilt.edu/)

Plants of the Gravelly Glades

Nostocdrynostocwet

Nostoc commune - Witches Butter (not actually a plant but cyanobacteria) photos by Nancy Stetten

 ARPAArenaria (Minuartia) patula - Glade Sandwort, also Pitcher's Stitchwort

photo by William S Justice, NRCS Plants Database
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Leavenworthia stylosa - Nashville Glade-cress, Gray Cedar Glade-cress, Nashville Mustard ©Daniel Reed - www.2bnthewild.com

 Stone CSedum pulchellum - Lime Stonecrop, also called Widow's cross

©Daniel Reed - www.2bnthewild.com
Lobelia appendiculata var. gattinger - Gattinger's Lobelia

Photo by Daniel Reed

the NRCS Plants Database

 Talinum calcaricum - Limestone Fame Flower Photo by Thomas G. Barnes

the NRCS Plants Database
Oxalis violacea - Violet Wood-sorrel

©Daniel Reed - http://2bnthewild.com/plants/H21.htm

 Phacelia dubia var. interior - Glade Scorpion-weed

©William S. Justice. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Systematic Biology, Botany.

https://plants.usda.gov/home

 

Plants of the Grassy Glades

Aristida dichotoma - Three-awn Grass

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ARDIC

 Manfreda virginica - False Aloe (also Rattlesnake Master)

©Daniel Reed http://2bnthewild.com/plants/H202.htm

 

Belamcanda chinensis - Blackberry-lily

©Daniel Reed http://2bnthewild.com/

 Pediomelum subacaulis - Nashville Breadroot

©Daniel Reed http://2bnthewild.com/plants/H99.htm
Dalea gattingeri - Gattinger's Prairie-clover also called Purple Tassels

©Daniel Reed http://2bnthewild.com/

 Hypericum perforatum - St. John's-wort

©Daniel Reed http://2bnthewild.com/
Hypoxis hirsuta - Star-grass

©Daniel Reed http://2bnthewild.com/

 Eggleston's Violet
Phlox bifida - Glade Phlox (also Cleft Phlox)

©Daniel Reed http://2bnthewild.com/

 Verbena canadensis - Rose Verbena

©Daniel Reed http://2bnthewild.com/

Small's Ragwort

Tennessee Coneflower ©Daniel Reed http://2bnthewild.com/

 

Plants of the Xeric Limestone Prairie

Hypericum frondosum - Shrubby St. John’s-wort ©Daniel Reed http://2bnthewild.com/

 Forestieral

Forestiera ligustrina - Glade Privet

© 2002 Steve Baskauf Vanderbilt University Bioimages
Rhus aromatica - Aromatic Sumac

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus - Coralberry

© 2002 Steve Baskauf Vanderbilt University Bioimages

Plants of the Cedar Woods

Eastern Red-cedar ( Juniperus virginiana )

Hackberry ( Celtis laevigata )

FraxinusBlue Ash (Fraxinus quadrangulata )

© 2002 Steve Baskauf Vanderbilt University Bioimages

 Winged Elm ( Ulmus alata )