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Credits/References


Website Citation (suggested): Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves. 2025. "Kentucky Plant and Natural Community Database."
Accessed (date accessed). [website].
Map Citation (suggested): Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves. County (replace with “Natural Region” when applicable)
Occurrence Map [map]. 2025. “Kentucky Plant and Natural Community Database”. (date accessed).

Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Energy and Environment Cabinet Division of Information Services for programming this website.
Line drawings provided by Kentucky Native Plants Society.
Site design, graphics and maps by OKNP.

References:
  • Abernathy, G., D. White, E. L. Laudermilk, and M. Evans, editors. 2010. Kentucky’s Natural Heritage: An Illustrated Guide to Biodiversity. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY., USA.
  • Campbell, J. and M.E. Medley. 2023. Kentucky Plant Atlas. [website, accessed March 2023]
  • Crum, H. A. and L. E. Anderson. Mosses of North America. Vol. 1 and 2. Columbia University Press. New York.
  • Evans, M., M. Hines, and B. Yahn. 2009. Natural communities of Kentucky. Working draft. Frankfort, KY.
  • Fernald, M.L. 1950. Gray's Manual of Botany, 8th ed., Corr. Printing, 1970. Van Nostrand, New York.
  • Gleason, H.A., and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. The New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx, New York, USA.
  • Jones, Ronald. 2005. Plant Life of Kentucky: an illustrated guide to the vascular flora. University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, KY.
  • Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves. 2025. Kentucky Natural Heritage Database. Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves, Frankfort, KY.
  • Medley, M.E. 1993. An annotated catalog of the known or reported vascular flora of Kentucky. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
  • NatureServe. 2025. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available here. (Accessed: March 10, 2025).
  • Steyermark, J. 1963. Flora of Missouri. Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers[USACE]. 2023. 2022 National Wetland Plant List, version 3.6. U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. website
  • Weakley, A.S., and Southeastern Flora Team. 2023. Flora of the southeastern United States. University of North Carolina Herbarium, North Carolina Botanical Garden.
  • Weckman, T. J. 1999. A distributional and taxonomic study of the genus Viburnum. (Caprifoliaceae) in Kentucky. M.S. Thesis. Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.
  • Wofford, B. E. 1989. Guide to the vascular plants of the Blue Ridge. The University of Georgia Press. Athens, GA.
  • Hines, M. 2024. Natural community classification of Kentucky. Working draft. Frankfort, KY.

About the Photographs:
All photographs found on the Kentucky Rare Plant Database Web site are copyrighted material and may not be used without permission of the photographer. To request more information about a photograph or photographer contact us email.

Photographers:
Thanks to Thomas G. Barnes, Richard Cassell, James Kiser, John MacGregor and Cary Tichenor for providing images used in the Rare Plants Database.
Thanks to USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database and the following photographers for use of images appearing on the PLANTS Database Website.
Thanks to the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium and Michael Lüth for use of images appearing on the UWSP Website.
Thanks to the University of Tennessee Herbarium and the following photographers for the use of images appearing on the TENN Website.
  • Larry Allain
  • William and Wilma Follette
  • David Gibson
  • William S. Justice
  • Robert H. Mohlenbrock
  • John Beck
  • Dan Busemeyer
  • Richard Cassell
  • Edward W. Chester
  • Jerry Drown,Tennessee Native Plant Society
  • Kurt Emmanuele
  • A. Murray Evans
  • Chris A. Fleming
  • Bart Jones
  • Edgar B. Lickey
  • Alan S. Heilman
  • Otto Hirsch, Tennessee Native Plant Society
  • Dennis D. Horn
  • Edgar B. Lickey
  • John McGregor
  • Mark Pistrang
  • Daniel Reed
  • Dick Sooy
  • B. Eugene Wofford
  • Wofford and Chester*
  • Tennessee Division of Natural Heritage
*Images with Wofford and Chester caption are from “Guide to Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Tennessee” by B. Eugene Wofford and Edward W. Chester. For additional information about this book contact the University of Tennessee Press(under seasonal catalogs).