A Floristic Inventory of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s Lexington Wildlife Management Area, Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Abstract

This paper reports the results of a vascular plant inventory at the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s Lexington Wildlife Management Area in Cleveland County, Oklahoma. Five hundred and six specific and infraspecific taxa in 90 families were collected. Two-hundred and ninety-six genera, 487 species, and 19 infraspecific taxa were identified. The largest families were the Poaceae with 86 taxa and the Asteraceae with 82 taxa. Sixty-eight taxa were non-native to the U.S. (13.4 % of the flora). Four species tracked by the Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory were found.