Habitat Types

Conservation Targets

System                                    Community                                         Species

Floodplain Forests    Shummard/Bur/Chinkapin Oaks            Solomon’s Seal

                                                                                                                                Trout Lily

                                                                                                                                Eastern Wahoo

                                                                                                                                Tall Meadow Rue

                                                                                                                                Yellow Violet

                                                                                                                                Spring Coralroot

                                                                                                                                Neotropical Migratory Birds

 Grasslands                 Big Blue Stem/ L. Blue Stem                Great Plains Ladies’ Tresses

                                                On  Molisols                                                      Purple Coneflower

                                                                                                                                Green Milkweed

                                                                                                                                Liatris mucronata

                                                                                                                                Fox-Glove

                                                                                                                                All native prairie grasses

Dry Upland Forest     Texas Red Oak, Texas Ash                  Quercus buckleyi                               

     Copses/Tree Islands                                                                 Fraxinus texana

Fragrant Sumac

                                                                                                                                Texas Honeysuckle

                                                                                                                                Elbow Bush                                                                                                                          

Chalk Glades             Edaphic Communities of

                                    Forbs/ Cryptogams                              Liatris glandulosa

                                                                                                                               Ground-Plum & other legumes

                                                                                                                               Missouri Primrose

                                                                                                                               Redroot (NJ Tea)

                                                                                                                               Wooly Ironweed

                                                                                                                               Unidentified cryptogamic species

 Aquatic/Riverine       Hydrophytic Communities                    Cardinal Flower

                                                                                                                               Hexalectris spicata?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Aquatic Biota                                                    Fishes, Mussels, Inverts, Native Aquatic plants

Modified and based on presentation by Jim Eidson before the Society on January 3, 2006