Listed and Sensitive Plants along the Buffalo River

Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission

• Tools for Teaching• The Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission offers a wide variety of educational

resources, such as lesson plans, a classroom guide to Arkansas natural history, and more. Our educational resources make the technical data interesting and easy to understand. Lesson plans and activity guides include correlations to Arkansas Science Curriculum Frameworks and resource lists for additional information.

While many of the resources are designed with teachers and students in mind, they are also enjoyed by life-long learners who want to know more about their Arkansas heritage. We invite feedback on the effectiveness of our outreach materials. Please email us or call 501.324.9619.

• Theo Witsell is contact for plants

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Species Rank and Status Global rankings are assigned by a consensus of international conservation organizations to designate the range-wide rarity of a species. The rankings range from G-1 (extremely rare) to G-5(very common and secure globally), with additional rankings tied to historical data and possible extinction.

State ranks are assigned in a similar manner to global rankings, with designations ranging from S-1 to S-5, but consider only factors within the boundaries of Arkansas. For example, a species that is endemic to Arkansas (found nowhere else in the world) would have the same global and state ranks, whereas a species that may be common in the western U.S. but only known from a few occurrences in Arkansas will have global and state ranks that differ.

Panax quinquefoliusGensing

• Jim Corbin South Carolina Dept. of Agriculture developed a marking system for ginseng

• The trace material has three prong defense1. Color dye –Buffalo River is powder blue2. Has chips that are fluorescent3. Has magnetic chips

Finding Ginseng plant

Digging down to expose top of root

Exposed root

Spray root with adhesive and sprinkle with trace material

Hydrastis canadensisGoldenseal

Caulophyllum thalictroidesBlue Cohosh

Global-G4G5 State S2

Penstomen cobeaShowy beardtongue

G4 S3

Callirhoe bushiiBush’s poppy mallow

G3 S3

Stylophorum diphyllumcelandine poppy

G5 S3

Trandescantia ozarkanaOzark spiderwort

G3 S3

Delphinium newtonianumMoore’s larkspur

G3 S3

Cypripedium calceolusyellow ladies slipper

Cypripedium kentuckiensisSouthern ladies slipper

G3 S3

Veratrum WoodiiFalse Hellebore

G5 S3

Heuchera villosa var. arkansanaAlumrootG5T3Q S3

Ozark CornsaladVallerianella ozarkana

G3-S3

Ozark Chinquapin

• The Chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica) was introduced on the East coast by Chinese chestnuts.

• It wiped out the Chestnut tree• By the 1950-60 it was affecting the Ozark

Chinquapin

Ozark ChinquapinCastanea ozarkana

• Yellville-Summit • Valley Springs• Currently involved in rearing chinquapins in an

orchard and a campus tree setting

The Ozark Chinquapin Foundation

• Steve Bost• Internet site • History of Chinquapin• How to sprout and grow chinquapin trees

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