North American Atlantic Region
The North American Atlantic Region is a
Korea, and the east of China) and sometimes Southeast Asia. R. F. Thorne counted at least 74 genera restricted to eastern North America and Asia (mostly eastern and southeastern Asia). The fossil record indicates that during the Tertiary period a warm temperate zone extended across much of the Northern Hemisphere
, linking America to Asia.
Subdivisions
Franklinia alatamaha, endemic species of Georgia, now extinct in the wild
The North American Atlantic Region is subdivided further into three
floristic provinces
: the Appalachian Province, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Province, and North American Prairies Province.
Appalachian Province
The
Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Province
The
Atlantic coastal plain.[3]
North American Prairies Province
The
glaciated
.
Endemic taxa
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- Endemics of the Appalachian Province
- Families
- Genera
- Cymophyllus
- Galax
- Rugelia
- Amphianthus
- Jamesianthus
- Nestronia
- Rugelia
- Species and lower taxa
- Cardamine flagellifera
- Cardamine clematitis
- Convallaria majuscula
- Clematis albicoma
- Shortia galacifolia
- Pinus pungens
- Oncophorus raui
- Gymnocarpium appalachianum
- Cimicifuga americana
- Seymeria cassioides
- Pyrularia pubera
- Chrysogonum virginianum
- Liatris helleri
- Diphylleia cymosa
- Galium arkansanum
- Echinacea paradoxa
- Delphinium treleasei
- Scutellaria bushii
- Hamamelis vernalis
- Abies fraseri
- Picea rubens
- Magnolia fraseri
- Phlox buckleyi
- Trifolium virginicum
- Senecio antennariifolius
- Paxistima canbyi
- Endemics of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Province
- Families
- Leitneriaceae
- Genera
- Species and lower taxa
- Taxodium ascendens
- Magnolia macrophylla subsp. ashei
- Magnolia pyramidata
- Magnolia grandiflora
- Harperocallis flava
- Families
- Endemics of the North American Prairies Province
- Species and lower taxa
- Endemics of the Appalachian Province and the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Province
- Endemics of the Appalachian Province and the North American Prairies Province
- Genera
- Species and lower taxa
- Endemics of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Province and the North American Prairies Province
- Genera
- Species and lower taxa
- Endemics of the Appalachian Province, the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Province and the North American Prairies Province
- Genera
- Species and lower taxa
See also
- Flora of Arkansas
- Flora of Connecticut
- Flora of Door County, Wisconsin
References
- ^ Thorne, Robert F. (2009-07-16). "Chapter 6: Phytogeography of North America North of Mexico". Flora of North America. Vol. Volume 1: Introduction. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
{{cite book}}: External link in|volume= - ^ Slattery, Britt E., Kathryn Reshetiloff, and Susan M. Zwicker (2003). "Native To (Where To Use) - States and Physiographic Regions". Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping: Chesapeake Bay Watershed. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Chesapeake Bay Field Office, Annapolis, MD.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ W. Henry McNab and Peter E. Avers (compilers) (July 1994). "Ecological Subregions of the United States (WO-WSA-5)".
Bibliography
- Thorne, Robert F. Phytogeography of North America North of Mexico. Flora of North America, Vol. 1, Ch. 6.