TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HABITAT

BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES

    Plants of exposed areas of glades

    Plants of partly shaded ecotones

    Comparisons with cedar glade floras

NOTEWORTHY ELEMENTS OF THE FLORA

        Endemic Taxa [plants not found on Ketona Dolomite outcrops in brackets]

                Castilleja kraliana

                Coreopsis grandiflora var. inclinata

                Dalea cahaba

                Erigeron strigosus var. dolomiticola

                        [Erigeron strigosus var. calcicola]

                Liatris oligocephala

                 Liatris Xfreemaniana (L. cylindracea X oligocephala)

                 Liatris Xmacdanieliana (L. cylindracea X squarrosa)

                Onosmodium decipiens

                Silphium glutinosum

                        [Silphium perplexum]

                Spigelia gentianoides var. alabamensis

        State Records

                Astrolepis integerrima

                Baptisia australis var. australis

                        [Clinopodium glabellum]

                Paronychia virginica

                Rhynchospora capillacea

                Rhynchospora thornei

                Solanum pumilum

                Spiranthes lucida

        Other Rarities

                Rare vascular glade plants

                Rare nonvascular or non-glade plants

ORIGINS OF THE FLORA

CONSERVATION STATUS

CATALOG OF VASCULAR FLORA OF KETONA GLADES AND THEIR ENVIRONS

    Pteridophytes: Gymnosperms; Angiosperms: Acanthaceae through Asclepiadaceae

    Angiosperms: Asteraceae through Cactaceae

    Angiosperms: Campanulaceae through Fabaceae

    Angiosperms: Fagaceae through Oleaceae

    Angiosperms: Onagraceae through Primulaceae

    Angiosperms: Ranunculaceae through Xyridaceae

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LITERATURE CITED

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