Plants
of
Lanark County
Ontario
2013 Edition
David J. White
July 2013
To contribute new records or offer comments, contact me at:
Phone (613) 259-3135
e-mail: djwhite@xplornet.ca
© David J. White 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . .
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INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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FIGURE 1: SIMPLIFIED BEDROCK GEOLOGY . .
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SIGNIFICANT AREAS . . . . . . . . . . .
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FIGURE 2: LANARK COUNTY LOCATIONS . . .
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ANNOTATED CHECKLIST . . . . . . . . . .
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APPENDIX 1: Excluded Species and
Unconfirmed Reports . . . . 79
APPENDIX 2: Alphabetical List of
Significant Native Plants . . . 81
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to
thank a number of people for their important contribution to the checklist. Dan
Brunton,
Ottawa, has
provided many records, offered on-going support and encouragement, helped with
identifications,
and reviewed several earlier drafts of the list. Mike Oldham, Natural Heritage
Information
Centre,
Peterborough, reviewed earlier drafts of the list, provided many records over
the years, and made
available the
database of Lanark County records from the herbarium of Queen’s University. Mike
also
checked the
identification of over 100 of my voucher specimens of grasses and sedges. Stephen
Darbyshire,
Agriculture Canada,
Ottawa, reviewed the grass family, provided a number of records, and helped
locate
relevant
literature. Don Cuddy, formerly with the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR),
Kemptville, made
field notes
available and reviewed several early drafts of the list.
I would like to
thank several former colleagues (all now retired) from the Canadian Museum of
Nature,
Ottawa. Albert
Dugal provided many records and helped with identifications. Mike Shchepanek
made field
notes available,
provided printouts of records from the Museum’s plant database, and helped
locate some
references. George
Argus helped with identification of some Willow (Salix) collections and reviewed that
section of a draft
of the list. Jim Soper provided access to his site records and data files of
Ontario shrubs.
Patsie Rothschild
(formerly of Sheridans Rapids) made many important discoveries, took me to
special
places, and also
reviewed several early drafts of the list. The late Adolf Vogg, Arnprior,
explored much of
the northern
portion of the county and contributed many records to this list. Adolf's
enthusiasm for botanizing
new places and
finding new plants helped to keep me interested in the checklist project during
the early
years. Eleanor
Thomson, Merrickville, provided numerous records of new and significant species—based
on her recent
inventory work in several parts of the county—and took the author to several
special locations.
Graham Page of
Ottawa and Kristl Walek (formerly of North Gower) contributed many recent
county records
and Graham has
taken me to many interesting locations he has found in the county. Jean
Griffin, Perth,
provided a number
of new records and took the author to several special locations. Howard
Clifford of the
(now-closed) Alba
Wilderness School, Flower Station, took the author to a number of diverse areas
on his
extensive property.
I would also like to thank several people who contributed one to a few records
each:
Heather Patterson
of Kitchener, Ken Allison of Ottawa, Ron Hepworth of Brantford, Nora Mansfield
of
Perth, and Dawson
Girdwood of Perth.
Joyce and Allan
Reddoch, Ottawa, supplied the records from the Native Orchid Location Survey
and
reviewed the orchid
section of the draft list. The late Clarrie Frankton, formerly of Agriculture
Canada,
Ottawa, reviewed an
early draft of the list and helped with some identifications. Ted Mosquin,
Fallbrook,
provided many
records and took the author to several interesting areas. Tobi Kiesewalter,
Murphys Point
Provincial Park,
provided park observations and helped the author relocate several old records. Bill
Crins,
Ontario Parks,
Peterborough, helped with several identifications, mainly in the genus Carex. Cathy and Paul
Keddy, Carleton
Place, provided several important records and took the author to a number of
diverse areas
on their large
property.
Kathy Sauvé, former
Park Superintendent for Murphys Point and Silver Lake Provincial Parks, Mike
Ogilvie,
Park Superintendent
for Murphys Point Provincial Park, and John Immerseel, Ontario Parks
Southeastern
Zone Manager,
allowed the author to conduct plant studies in the two parks. I would also like
to thank the
curators and
collection managers of the Ottawa-Hull herbaria of Agriculture Canada and the
Canadian
Museum of Nature
for helping with access to Lanark County specimens. Alice White helped with
editing
and data checking,
and Katy (Williams) White helped on several field trips.
Finally, I would
like to thank Shaun Thompson, MNR, Kemptville, who arranged funding in 1998 to
enable
my rough draft list
to progress to a useable—albeit preliminary—state. Without the help and encouragement
of the
above-mentioned people, this list would be little more than a pile of field
notes and several boxes of
file cards.
Cover photo: Water
Smartweed (Persicaria
amphibia).
