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List of woody plants of Soldiers Delight

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The Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area is located in western Baltimore County, Maryland.[1] Much of the area of the Soldiers Delight NEA, which totals 1,900 acres (7.7 km2) of protected land, contains a serpentine barren that contains a number of rare and endangered species of plants.[2]

The following list of woody plants comes from the publications by [F] Fleming et al. 1995, [M] Monteferrante 1973, [R] Reed 1984, [We] Wennerstrom 1995, [Wood] Wood 1984, and the unpublished data by [Wo] Worthley 1955-1985, with authors' acronyms used below.

List of woody plants of the Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area

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Quercus marilandica (Blackjack oak) (common at Soldiers Delight)
Quercus stellata (Post oak) (common at Soldiers Delight)
Quercus velutina (Black oak)
Pinus virginiana (Virginia pine) (abundant at Soldiers Delight)
Carpinus caroliniana (American hornbeam) (in lowland woods)
Prunus serotina (Wild cherry)
Betula lenta (Sweet birch)
Nyssa sylvatica (Black gum)
Celastrus orbiculatus (Oriental bittersweet)
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry) (growing in thickets around Locust Run)
Smilax rotundifolia (Common greenbrier) (very common in woodlands at the SDNEA)

Cupressaceae - (Cypress Family)

Pinaceae - (Pine Family)


Class Magnoliopsida (Dicotyledons)

Aceraceae - (Maple Family)

Anacardiaceae - (Cashew Family)

Berberidaceae - (Barberry Family)

Betulaceae - (Birch Family)

Caprifoliaceae - (Honeysuckle Family)

Celastraceae - (Staff-tree Family)

Cornaceae - (Dogwood Family)

Ebenaceae - (Ebony Family)

Elaeagnaceae - (Oleaster Family)

Ericaceae - (Heath Family)

Hamamelidaceae - (Witch-hazel Family)

Juglandaceae - (Walnut Family)

Lauraceae - (Laurel Family)

Magnoliaceae - (Magnolia Family)

Platanaceae - (Plane-tree Family)

Rosaceae - (Rose Family)

Salicaceae - (Willow Family)

Simaroubaceae - (Quassia Family)

Vitaceae - (Grape Family)

Class Liliopsida (Monocotyledons)

Smilacaceae - (Greenbrier Family)


See also

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Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area
Maryland

References

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  1. ^ "Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area". Archived from the original on 2007-12-10. Retrieved 2007-12-23. dnr.state.md: SDNEA guide Archived 2007-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ [1] gsa.confex.com: Serpentine
  • Ongoing Survey List of Plants of Soldier's Delight.[2][permanent dead link]
  • Brown, Russell G., and Melvin L. Brown. 1972. Woody Plants of Maryland. Port City Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 347 pages.
  • Davis, Charles A. 2004. List of Plants of Soldier's Delight. (Unpublished).
  • [F]   Fleming, Cristol, Marion B. Lobstein. 1995. Finding Wildflowers in the Washington-Baltimore Area. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 312 pages.
  • Gleason, Henry A., and Arthur Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. (Second Edition) The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York 10458, 910 pages.
  • Google Hybrid Map. 2006. Target building, Soldiers Delight Visitor Center. [3]
  • Holmgren, Noel H. 1998. Illustrated Companion to Gleason and Cronquist's Manual. Illustrations of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern U. S. and Adjacent Canada. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York 10458, 937 pages.
  • Maryland Department of Natural Resources. 2003. Explanation of Rank and Status Codes. [4]
  • Maryland Department of Natural Resources. 2004. Current and Historical Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species of Baltimore County, Maryland. [5]
  • [M]   Monteferrante, Frank. 1973. A Phytosociological Study of Soldiers Delight, Baltimore County, Maryland. Towson State College, Towson, Maryland.
  • [R]   Reed, Clyde F. 1984. Floras of the Serpentinite Formations in Eastern North America, with descriptions of geomorphology and mineralogy of the formations. Reed Herbarium, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • [We]   Wennerstrom, Jack. 1995. Soldiers Delight Journal - Exploring a Globally Rare Ecosystem. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburg and London, 247 pages.
  • [Wo]   Worthley, Elmer G. (1955-1985) List of Plants of Soldier's Delight. Unpublished.
  • [Wood]   Wood, Sarah G. 1984. Mineral Element Composition of Forest Communities and Soils at Soldiers Delight, Maryland. Towson State University, Towson, Marland.
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