Journal of the Oklahoma Native Plant Society, Volume 5, Number 1, December 2005


Oklahoma Native Plant Record   
Journal of the Oklahoma Native Plant Society   

2435 South Peoria          
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 

Volume 5, Number 1, December 2005 

ISSN 1536-7738 

Managing Editor:  Sheila Strawn  
Technical Editor:  Patricia Folley  

Technical Advisor:  Bruce Hoagland 
CD-ROM Producer:  Chadwick Cox

Website: http://www.usao.edu/~onps/ 

The purpose of ONPS is to encourage the study, protection, propagation, appreciation 
and use of the native plants of Oklahoma. Membership in ONPS shall be open to any 
person who supports the aims of the Society.  ONPS offers individual, student, family, 
and life memberships.  

2005 Officers and Board Members

President: Constance Murray 
Vice-president: Kim Shannon 
Secretaries:  

Lou Duke & Tina Julich 
Treasurer: Mary Korthase  
Past President: Jim Elder 

Board Members: 
Paul Buck
Kay Gafford 
Melynda Hickman 
Monica Macklin 
Elfriede Miller 
Stanley Rice 

Central Chapter Chair: Marilyn Stewart 
Cross-timbers Chapter Chair:  

Paul Richardson 
Mycology Chapter Chair: Clark Ovrebo 
Northeast Chapter Chair: Sue Amstutz 
Historians: Irene McKee  
Ann Long Award Chair: Patricia Folley  
Harriet Barclay Award Chair: 

Constance Taylor  
ONPS Service Award Chair: Sue Amstutz 
Nominating Committee: Paula Shryok

Conservation Chair: Chadwick Cox
Publicity Chairs: 

Kim Shannon & Marilyn Stewart 
Publications Chairs:  

Paul Buck & Constance Taylor 
Marketing Co-chairs:  

Lawrence Magrath 
Susan Chambers 

Photo Contest Co-chairs: 
Patricia and Chadwick Cox 

Gaillardia Editor: Chadwick Cox  
Librarian: Bonnie Winchester  
Website Manager: Chadwick Cox
Mailing Committee Chair: Karen Haworth 
Color Oklahoma Committee Chair:        

Kim Shannon
Wildflower Workshop Chair: Larry Magrath 
Photo Poster Curators: 

Sue Amstutz & Marilyn Stewart    
Cover photo: Passiflora incarnata L., 
Passionflower by Kim Shannon. “Nature 
does nothing uselessly.” Aristotle (384 BC-
322 BC).

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Journal compilation (c) Oklahoma Native Plant Society
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Volume 5, Number 1 

Table of Contents

Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 

Relationship of Forest Vegetation to Soils on Geological  
Formations of the Oklahoma Gulf Coastal Plain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 

Dr. Raymond John Taylor 

A Vegetation Analysis of a Pimpled Prairie in Northeastern Oklahoma . . 39 
Dr. Constance Lucile Murray 

Vascular Flora of a Site along the Arkansas River, 
Pawnee County, Oklahoma . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 

Dr. Bruce W. Hoagland and Amy Buthod 

Additions to the Flora of Garvin County, Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 
Dr. Phillip T. Crawford and Ms. Priscilla H.C. Crawford 

Editorial: Tribute to John Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98