Herbarium: Holyoke Range Checklist
Updated checklist (January 2009) of vascular plants from the Greater Mount Holyoke Range, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts
This checklist is an update of the flora of the Mount Holyoke Range (K. B. Searcy. 2008. Vascular Flora of the Greater Mount Holyoke Range, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts, Special Publication, New England Botanical Club, Cambridge, MA). In addition to an annotated checklist, the published flora includes information on land use, geology, soils, climate, vegetation, plant communities and a brief history of botanical collection in the Range. As of this update, Asclepias purpurescens, Epilobium angustifolium, Ambrosia trifida, and Echinocystis lobata were added to species found in the Range. Solidago macrophylla, a specimen with no recent collections, and Carex folliculata were dropped from the flora, the former because of a reinterpretation of the locality information and the latter because of misidentification. The flora of the Range now totals 865 species.
Most of the taxa are documented by recent collections deposited at the University of Massachusetts Herbarium (MASS). Thirty-seven species are known only from specimens in the following herbaria: Amherst College (AC), Gray Herbarium (GH), New England Botanical Club Herbarium (NEBC), Smith College Herbarium (SCHN), and the University of Massachusetts Herbarium (MASS). Searches for these species are on going.
For the purposes of the flora, the Mount Holyoke Range is broadly defined. It includes primarily state or other public land between Route 47 at Connecticut River on the west and Harris Mountain Rd. on the east. The northern boundary is Chmura Rd. in Hadley or Bay Rd. in Amherst. The southern boundary is approximately Bachelor Rd. in Granby and Elmer Brook in South Hadley.
Nomenclature follows Gleason, H.A. and A. Cronquist (1991) or "The Flora of North America" Vols. 2-5 and 19-26.
For more information or for a copy of the flora contact:
Karen B. Searcy
Herbarium,
Biology Department
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Email: ksearcy@bio.umass.edu
