Chapman, A. W. Flora of the Southern United States: 2nd ed. New York: American Book Company, 1884.	Eliza Frances Andrews (1840-1931), a botanist, and author of "A Practical Course in Botany" had a family in Floyd County, and in 1918 she moved in Rome, Georgia. © Copyright: State Of Alabama, Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama

Harold Charles Jones (1903-1994), a professor at Woman's College in Milledgeville, Georgia studied the plant ecology of the Berry College Campus, from 1937-1941. Jones recorded 604 species and 124 families of vascular plants. Some of his ferns’ records were: Ophioglossum engelmannii Prantl, Limestone Adderstongue, Ophioglossum vulgatum L., Southern Adderstongue, Botrychium dissectum Spreng., Cutleaf Grapefern, Dryopteris marginalis (L.) Gray, Marginal Woodfern, Asplenium bradleyi D.C. Eat, Bradley's spleewort, Woodwardia areolata (L.) T. Moore, Netted Chainfern, Cheilanthes tomentosa Link, Woolly Lipfern, and Cheilanthes lanosa (Michx.) D.C. Eat. Hairy Lipfern. Jones also collected Carex brunnescens (Pers) Poir., Brownish Sedge, Chamaelirium luteum (L.) Gray, Fairywand, and on April 9, 1939 Viola pubescens Ait. var. pubescens, (Syn. Viola eriocarpa Schwein.), Downy Yellow Violet at the property of the Berry Schools, Mount Berry, Georgia.
Duncan, Wilbur H. “ Preliminary Reports on the Flora of Georgia-4. Notes on the Distribution of Flowering Plants Including Species New to the State.” Castanea, Vol. 15, No.4 (1950): 155.
Data obtained from Dr Dayle E. Saar, Curator of the Murray State University Herbarium, (MU), Murray, KY 42071 on July 28, 2006.
Hermann, F. J. “ Addenda to North American Carices” American Midland Naturalist Vol. 51, No. 1 (1954) : 266-267.
Jones, Harold C. "Plant Ecology Of The Berry Schools Property, Floyd County, Georgia: 1940 " Diss. George Peabody College, Nashville, 1941.
Herbarium collections from Floyd County, Georgia at Georgia Herbarium (GA) University Of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

George Andrew Dorsey (1907-1991) was a naturalist, a botanist, and the president of the Floyd County Audubon Society. From 1943 he was a science teacher at Darlington School until his retirement. In 1960 Dorsey collected Ilex longipes Chapman ex Trel., Georgia Holly, and Dicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh., Dutchman’s Breeches in Floyd County. In his "Preliminary list of Floyd County Trees and Shrubs" (1959) some of Dorsey’s records were: Quercus muehlenbergii Engelm., Chinkapin Oak, Castanea pumila (L.) P. Mill., Chinkapin, Castanea dentate (Marsh.) Borkh., American chestnut, Magnolia tripetala (L.) L., Umbrella-Tree, Hydrangea quercifolia Bartr., Oakleaf Hydrangea, and Hydrangea cinerea Small, Ashy Hydrangea.
Dorsey, George Andrew. " Preliminary list of Floyd County Trees." 1959.

Wilbur Howard Duncan (1910-2005), was an eminent botanist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia and the author of numerous guides about the plants of Georgia and other Southeastern states. Duncan botanically observed this area on many occasions. In October of 1952, he collected Calycocarpum lyonii (Pursh) Gray, Cupseed, Dicliptera brachiata (Pursh) Spreng., Branched Foldwing, and Sicyos angulatus L. Duncan also made collections of : Osmorhiza longistylis (Torr.) DC., Longstyle Sweetroot, Danthonia spicata (L.) Beauv. ex Roemer & J.A. Schultes, Poverty Oatgrass, and Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh., Bulblet Bladderfern, and Festuca obtuse Biehler (Festuca subverticillata (Pers.) Alexeev, Nodding Fescue in May of 1953.
Duncan, Wilbur H." New Records for Georgia Ferns." American Fern Journal 45 (1955): 6.
Duncan, Wilbur H., and John T. Kartesz. Vascular Flora of Georgia. An Annotated Checklist. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1981.

Haskell Venard (1909-1975), was born in Ontario, Canada. With his family he moved to Chicago. Venard attended Princeton University where he graduated with A.B. in 1930. For most of his life he lived in Atlanta, Georgia. As an amateur botanist, Venard collected plants throughout Georgia, and in 1953 he made collection of Caulophyllum thalictroides (L.) Mich., Blue Cohosh, at the Cliffs along the Coosa River, Floyd County, Georgia. In the 1950s, with cooperation of the libraries of Emory University in Atlanta and the University of Georgia, Venard compiled a reference list of scientific literature reporting collections of plant species from Georgia. In addition, Venard made a bibliography of the botanical explorations of Georgia.
Duncan, Wilbur H., and John T. Kartesz. Vascular Flora of Georgia. An Annotated Checklist. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1981.: Introduction
Herbarium Collections from Floyd County, Georgia at Louisiana State University Herbarium (LSU), Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Data obtained from Aaron Pickett, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 ( March 9, 2006)
Venard, Haskell " Bibliography of Georgia Botany" Castanea 34(3) ( September 1969) : 267-307.

Emma Lewis Lipps (1919-1996) was a Professor of Biology, an ecologist, and a paleontologist. Lipps came to Rome in 1944 to join the biology faculty at Shorter College. In 1966, Lipps completed, for her doctoral dissertation, a study of the plants in Marshall Forest, a virgin forest in Rome. With the help of botany and ecology students from Shorter College, Lipps recorded 300 species of vascular plants in Marshall Forest. In the distinct tree communities of pine-oak, chestnut oak, and mixed hardwood, Lipps found 55 different tree species. In those communities the dominant tree species were: Pinus echinata P. Mill., Shortleaf Pine, Quercus velutina Lam., Black Oak, Quercus stellata Wangenh., Post Oak, Quercus prinus L., Chestnut Oak, Quercus rubra L., Northern Red Oak, Quercus alba L., White Oak, Carya alba (L.) Nutt. ex Ell., Mockernut Hickory, (Syn. Carya tomentosa (Lam. ex Poir.) Nutt.), Carya ovata (P. Mill.) K. Koch, Shagbark Hickory, Carya pallida (Ashe) Engl. & Graebn., Sand Hickory, Pinus taeda L., Loblolly Pine, Pinus palustris P. Mill., Longleaf Pine, Oxydendrum arboreum (L.) DC., Sourwood, Acer rubrum L., Red Maple, and Liriodendron tulipifera L., Tuliptree. Under Dr Lipps's leadership, Marshall Forest was preserved as a National Landmark in 1966. Dr. Emma L. Lipps also initiated the preservation of the Black’s Bluff Preserve and its oak-hickory forest.
Lipps, Emma, Lewis., and H. R. De Selm. " The Vascular Flora of the Marshall Forest, Rome, Georgia." Castanea 34 (1969) : 414-432.
Lipps, Emma, Lewis. (Archive papers, Shorter College Library, Rome)

Philip F-C Greear was: a botanist, a college professor, head of Biology and Earth Sciences Department, a pioneer of ecology, a president of Georgia Academy of Science in 1974, and a poet. He came to Shorter College in Rome in 1961 and remained until his retirement in 1994. Together with Emma L. Lipps Greer worked on the identification of plants and the conservation of the Marshall Forest's natural area and Black's Bluff. Greer also recorded the sagponds' plant community in Floyd County.
Philip F-C Greear. (Archive papers, Shorter College Library, Rome)

Elizabeth A. Dutton was a student of Emma L. Lipps’s at Shorter College in Rome in 1964 when she recorded plants species and created a collection of more than 100 plants from Black’s Bluff in Floyd County.
Elizabeth A. Dutton. (Archive papers, Shorter College Library, Rome)

Hal R. De Selm, was a Professor of Botany, and a Professor in the Graduate Program of Ecology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, until his retirement in 1990. Emma L. Lipps completed her degree in Ecology under his direction. Professor De Selm was very supportive and helpful in the preservation of Marshall Forest and Black's Bluff. De Selm botanically observed Black's Bluff (also known as Cliffs of the Coosa) in July of 1979. In 1984, Professor DeSelm wrote an ecological report for the potential National Natural Landmarks of the Appalachian Parks and he enumerated the Black's Bluff as a possible site.
Hal R. De Selm. Personal interview. November 29, 2004.
De Selm, Hal R. "Potential National Natural Landmarks Of The Appalachian Ranges Natural Region." Ecological Report Prepared for the U.S. Department of Interior National Park Service in fulfillment of Contact No. CX-0001-10079. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, September, 1984.
Lipps, Emma, Lewis., and H. R. De Selm. " The Vascular Flora of the Marshall Forest, Rome, Georgia." Castanea 34 (1969) : 414-432.

Delzie Demaree (1889-1987), a botanist, author of the catalog of the vascular plants of Arkansas, and well known plant collector was in Rome in May, 1965. Demaree and Emma L. Lipps botanized along the creek banks in Livingston, and Demaree collected Carex normalis Mack. It was his 50,102nd plant collection.
Herbarium Collections from Floyd County, Georgia at University of North Carolina Herbarium (http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/)., University of North Carolina Herbarium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280

Robert Kral a botanist and professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee discovered a small population of Xyris tennesseensis Kral, Tennesee Yellow-Eyed Grass in Gordon County in 1973. In Floyd County Kral observed the effect of quarrying dolomitic limestones along the Coosa River on locality of Viburnum bracteatum Rehd., Southeastern Viburnum, and Aureolaria patula (Chapman) Pennell, Spreding Yellow Foxglove. Kral revisited Floyd County in 1980 and in 1995. In May of 1980 he collected Carex digitalis Willd., Slender Woodland Sedge and in April 1995 Carex gracillima Schwein., Graceful Sedge and Carex styloflexa Buckl., Bent Sedge.
Kral, Robert. A Report on Some Rare, Threatened, or Endangered Forest-Related Vascular Plants of the South. Vol. I and II. Technical Publication R8-TP 2 Atlanta: USDA Forest Service, 1983: 1035-1036, 1082-1083.
Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST: (http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html). Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63110

Charles H. Wharton (1923-2004), was a Professor at Georgia State University, an eminent conservationist, field biologist, botanist, and the author of several publications. In the 1970’s Wharton studied the environment of Floyd County for his survey "The Natural Environments of Georgia" which was published in 1977.
Wharton, Charles H. The Natural Environments of Georgia Georgia Department of Natural Resources: Atlanta 1977.

Frederick G. Meyer, a botanist at U.S. National Arboretum, Agricultural Research Service, visited the Berry College Campus in 1977 and collected voucher herbarium specimens of cultivated woody plants.
U.S. National Arboretum Herbarium, Washington,D.C

Rob Nicholson, a botanist at Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, in October of 1987 collected a living specimen of Viburnum bracteatum Rehder, Limerock Arrow-Wood, and the seeds of Ilex longipes Chapman ex Trel., Georgia Holly, and Carya ovata (P. Mill.) K. Koch, Shagbark Hickory, from Black’s Bluff in Floyd County, Georgia.
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University (http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/plants/inventory.html)., 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

James B. Phipps, an authority on the Crataegus species, was a Director of the Sherwood Fox Arboretum in Western Ontario, Canada. Dr. Phipps is a committee member for the Flora of North America. In the mid-1980’s, Dr. Phipps visited Floyd County many times and researched Hawthorn species of the region. In that time he collected Crataegus spathulata Michx., Littlehip Hawthorn from Horseleg Mountain. Phipps revisited Floyd County in April 2006 and made some collections at the Flatwoods of the Berry College Campus. He also collected Crataegus triflora Chapman, Three-flower Hawthorn, and Crataegus tristis Beadle, Minute Hawthorn. Currently, Dr. Phipps has been exploring the Crategus species of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Phipps, James B. Personal interview. September 10, 2004; April 18, 2006
Phipps, J.B. "Synopsis of Crataegus Series Apiifoliae, Cordatae, Microcarpae, and Brevispinae (Rosaceae Subfam. Maloideae)." Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85. 3 (1998): pp. 487.
Phipps, J. B. “Crataegus (Maloideae, Rosaceae) of the Southeastern United States, I. Introduction and Series Aestivales.” Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 69. (1988): 401-431

Ron W. Lance, a native plant specialist, an author, and Senior Naturalist at Balsam Mountain Preserve from North Carolina has been studying species of Crataegus, Hawthorn, in Floyd County since 1990. In April 2005 he led the search in Floyd County for Crataegus tristis Beadle, Minute Hawthorn and he rediscovered it in South Rome. His other collections from Floyd County were: Amorpha nitens F. E. Boynt, Shining Indigo-bush, Crataegus triflora Chapman, Three-flower Hawthorn, Crataegus sargentii Beadle, Sargent's Hawthorn, Crataegus aemula Beadle, Rome Hawthorn, Crataegus spathulata Michx., Littlehip Hawthorn, Crataegus marshallii Egglest., Parsley Hawthorn, Crataegus crus-gallii L., Cockspur Hawthorn, and Crataegus iracunda Beadle, Stolonbearing Hawthorn.
Lance, Ron W. Personal interview. August 19, and September 2004; April and September 2005; April 2006
Lance, Ron . "The Hawthorns (Crataegus) of Georgia." Tipularia (2006): 15-39.

James Robert Allison, a former botanist from Georgia Natural Heritage Program, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, discovered the Coosa Valley Prairies on the Temple-Inland Inc. property in 1991. Same year Allison made first Georgia collection of Marshallia mohrii Beadle & F.E. Boynton, Coosa Barbara Buttons, an endeared species, in Floyd County. Since Allison discovered a few additional state records, such as the first Georgia collections of: Juncus filipendulus Buckl, Texas Plains Rush, Oligoneuron riddellii Frank ex Riddell, Riddell's goldenrod, Callirhoe digitata Nutt., Finger poppy-Mallow, Erigeron strigosus var. calcicola J. Allison, Glade Daisy Fleabane, Myosotis scorpioides L., "True" Forget-me-not, Carex careyana Torr. ex Dewey, Ivory Sedge, Baptisia australis (L.) R. Br. ex Ait. f. var. australis, Streamside Blue Wild Indigo, Jamesianthus alabamensis Blake & Sherff, Jamesianthus, Carex eburnean Boott, Ivory Sedge, and Spartina pectinataBosc ex Link, Prairie Cordgrass,. "Floyd County has been very good to me!"- James R. Allison.
Allison, James R. Personal interview. September 26, 2003.
Matthews, James F., James R. Allison, Richard T. Ware, Sr., and Carl Nordman. " Helianthus verticillatus Small (Asteraceae) Rediscovered and Redescribed." Castanea 67(1) (2002) : 13-24

Richard T. Ware, a local botanist from Rome in 1994 made rediscovery of the 100 years lost Helianthus verticillatus Small, in wet prairie of Coosa Valley, and Allison identified the specie. Ware and his wife Teresa also discovered in the Floyd County the first Georgia's records of: Amelanchier alabamensis Britt., Alabama Serviceberry, Asclepias purpurascens L., Purple Milkweed, Clematis fremontii S. Wats. , Fremont's Leatherflower, Clematis socialis Kral, Alabama Leatherflower, Lilium michiganense Farw. , Michigan Lily, Prenanthes barbata (Torr. & Gray) Milstead, Prairie Lion's Foot, Carya myristiciformis (Michx. f.) Nutt., Nutmeg Hickory and Quercus imbricaria Michx., Shingle Oak.
Matthews, James F., James R. Allison, Richard T. Ware, Sr., and Carl Nordman. " Helianthus verticillatus Small (Asteraceae) Rediscovered and Redescribed." Castanea 67(1) (2002) : 13-24
Ware, Richard T. Personal interview. October 6, 2003.
Ware, Richard T. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Floyd County Georgia. Richard T. Ware, 1999.

Malcolm Hodges, a conservation ecologist and Nate Thomas, a field representative at Nature Conservancy have been active in botanical management efforts of the Conservancy’s sites in Floyd County, Northwest Georgia.
Hodges, Malcolm. Personal interview. October 10, 2003.

INTRODUCTION:	PLANT COLLECTIONS FROM FLOYD COUNTY AT:
FLOYD COUNTY, GEORGIA	TYPE SPECIMENS (1871-1902)
FLATWOODS: FLOYD COUNTY	OTHER SPECIMENS (1869-1970's)
FLATWOODS: BERRY COLLEGE CAMPUS	WOODY SPECIMENS (1977)
A.W. CHAPMAN	LIST OF PLANTS (1872, 1881, & 1891)
HAWTHORNS: LIST (1872-2006)	HAWTHORNS: TYPE SPECIMENS (1897-1910)

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