North American Prairies Province
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The North American Prairies Province is a large grassland floristic province lying between the Appalachian Province and the Rocky Mountains and including the prairies of the Great Plains. It is bounded by the Canadian coniferous forests on the north and the arid semideserts to the southwest. The province itself is occupied by temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands (including such ecoregions as the Flint Hills tall grasslands, Sand Hills, High Plains). Endemism is rather limited in this province, and its boundaries are vague. During the Pleistocene much of the province was glaciated.
This province is within the North American Atlantic Region, a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom.
Endemic taxa
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- Endemics of the North American Prairies Province
- Species and lower taxa
- Phlox oklahomensis - Oklahoma Phlox[1]
- Lespedeza leptostachya - Prairie Bush-Clover[2]
- Eustoma russellianum - Texas Bluebell[3]
- Andropogon gerardi - Big Bluestem[4]
- Bouteloua gracilis - Blue Grama[5]
- Bouteloua dactyloides - Buffalo Grass[6]
- Erigeron philadelphicus - Philadelphia Fleabane[7]
- Sorghastrum nutans - Yellow Indiangrass[8]
- Asclepias curassavica - Tropical Milkweed[9]
- Echinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower[10]
- Urtica dioica - Stinging Nettle[11]
- Species and lower taxa
References
- ↑ https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PHOK
- ↑ http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/prairie-bush-clover
- ↑ http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=EUEXR
- ↑ http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/big_bluestem_grass.htm
- ↑ http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/blue_grama-grass.htm
- ↑ http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/buffalo_grass.htm
- ↑ http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/fleabane2.htm
- ↑ http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/indian_grass.htm
- ↑ http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/milkweed.htm
- ↑ http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/coneflower_purple.htm
- ↑ http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/stinging_nettle.htm
- Incomplete lists from August 2008
- Floristic provinces
- Grasslands of the United States
- Flora of the Great Plains (North America)
- Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands in the United States
- Great Plains
- Flora of the Plains-Midwest (United States)
- Flora of the Canadian Prairies
- Native grasses of the Great Plains region
- Grasslands of the Great Plains (U.S.)
- Grasslands of Canada
- Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
- Ecoregions of the United States
- Prairies
