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These endangered and threatened plants are found in
the midwestern United States:
Cumberland sandwort (Arenaria cumberlandensis)
- Is a tiny herbaceous perennial
- Grows under cool, shady, damp rock overhangs
- Found in the Cumberland mountains of Tennessee
.
Lucy braun's eupatorium (Eupatorium luciae-brauniae)
- Is a shade-loving herbaceous perennial
- Grows under rock overhangs in Kentucky and Tennessee
.
The Ofer hollow reed grass (Calamagrostis porteri
ssp. insperata)
- Grows in the Missouri Ozarks, Ohio, and Illinois
- Found in rocky, wooded ravines or along sandstone bluffs
.
The Ouachita mountain goldenrod (Solidago ouachitensis)
- Is found in Oklahoma and Arkansas
- It is restricted to mesic, north-facing slopes
.
Ouachita mountain indigo (Amorpha ouachitensis)
- Is endemic to the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma and Arkansas
- This shrub is 1 to 2 meters tall
- It is found on rocky bluffs or banks along rivers and streams.
Pondberry (Lindera melissifolia )
- Is an aromatic deciduous shrub
- Is found in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, the Carolinas and
Georgia
- It grows in swampy areas
- Is threatened by land drainage for agriculture and development.
Pyne's ground-plum (Astragalus bibullatus
)
- Endemic to central Tennessee
- Is a limestone glade species that was described in 1987.
Price's groundnut (Apios priceana)
- Is a tuberous, perennial vine of open, mixed-oak forests, forest
edges and clearings on river bottoms and ravines
- Approximately 25 sites are known in 15 counties of Alabama,
Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee
- Most of the sites consist of fewer than 25 individuals
.
Running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum)
- Is a stoloniferous perennial
- Found in West Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky
Short's goldenrod (Solidago shortii)
- Is endemic to Kentucky
- Is a perennial herb
The Spring Creek bladderpod(Lesquerella perforata
)
- Found only in Tennessee
- It is a small annual found in glades
.
The Stones River bladderpod (Lesquerella stonensis)
- Is a small annual
- Found only on the floodplain of the Stones River Tennessee.
The Tennessee coneflower (Echinacea tennesseensis)
- Is a perennial composite
- Found in limestone glades near Nashville, Tennessee.
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