Wood Forest Botanical Preserve, Jones Co.
Explanatory Notes

1) The Wood Forest Botanical Preserve (also known as the Cone Property) was bequeathed to the University of Iowa Botany Department by Mrs. Avis Cone.

2) This list is based mainly on specimens collected by Dr. Jeffry Schabilion in 1988, and determined by Thomas F. Cady (primarily), Iowa City, Iowa and Diana Horton, University of Iowa Herbarium, Iowa City, IA, in 1998. Voucher specimens are in the University of Iowa Herbarium. Funding for field work (Schabilion) and identifications (Cady) was provided from the Cone Foundation and is gratefully acknowledged. The list also includes species recorded in a 1965 list, most likely prepared by Dr. Robert Thorne.

3) Latin names of vascular plants generally follow Eilers & Roosa (1994), The Vascular Plants of Iowa, and/or Gleason and Cronquist (1991), Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (2nd edition).

4) Total species recorded and percentage of alien species are at the end of the list.

Last Updated: 04/08/2002

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