Dodecatheon in Eastern North America

Abstract

This paper treats the Shooting Stars, Dodecatheon, of the region east of the 100th meridian, i.e., from Minnesota to eastern Texas, and eastward. It is based on field studies in a dozen states, and on material in the following herbaria: the University of Arkansas, the herbarium of Miss Lena Artz, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Carnegie Museum, the herbarium of C. C. Deam, the Field Museum, the Gray Herbarium, Iowa State College, Louisiana State University, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the New York Botanical Garden, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Pennsylvania, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the University of Tennessee, the University of Texas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, West Virginia University, and the University of Wisconsin. To those to whom I am indebted for loans I wish to express my appreciation, as well as to those who have responded to many letters of inquiry regarding the plants in the field. Some of those who have contri'buted valuale information concerning Shooting Stars in various regions are: Dr. Edgar Anderson, Dr. C. E. Allen, Mr. E. F. Bean, Prof. E. Lucy Braun, Prof. Clair A. Brown, Dr. W. H. Camp, Dr. P. L. Core, Dr. J. T. Curtis, Dr. C. C. Deam, Mrs. James L. Dormon, Dr. W. B. Drew, Dr. B. M. Duggar, Dr. R. I. Evans, Miss Flora Fender, Dr. M. L. Fernald, Dr. F. A. Gilbert, Mr. Charles Gore, Dr. J. M. Greenman, Dr. E. M. Gress, Dr. R. M. Harper, Dr. Milton Hopkins, Mr. J. F. Macbride, Dr. A. B. Massey, Dr. Frank T. McFarland, M. R. Metman, the late Mr. C. Z. Nelson, Miss Ruth D. Sanderson, Dr. G. L. Stebbins, Dr. J. A, Steyermark, Miss Alice Strickler, Mr. Hugh E. Stone, Dr. H. K. Svenson, Dr. B. C. Tharp, Dr. E. T. Wherry, and Dr. T. G. Yuncker. A number of others who have assisted materially in the gathering of field data are listed in Appendix I.