Dwarf-Shrub Bogs of the Southern Catskill Mountain Region of New York State : Geographic Changes in the Flora of Peatlands in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York

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KARLiN, E. F. (Inst. Environ. Stud., Sch. Theor. & Appl. Sci., Ramapo Coll. of N.J., Mahwah, NJ 07430) AND L. M. LYNN (Div. Nat. Sci. Math., Bergen Comm. Coll., Paramus, NJ 07652). Dwarf-shrub bogs of the southern Catskill Mountain region of New York State: Geographic changes in the flora of peatlands in northern New Jersey and southern New York State. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 115: 209-217. 1988.-The vegetation of six dwarf-shrub bogs in the southern Catskill Mountain region was quantified using phytosociological methods. Four of these peatlands were weakly minerotrophic ecosystems and two were moderately minerotrophic. The dominant vascular plant was Chamaedaphne calyculata, with Kalmia angustifolia, Kalmia polifolia and Vaccinium oxycoccus also being prominent. In comparison to the flora of dwarfshrub bogs found in northern New Jersey, several northern species were either limited to the southern Catskill sites or were more abundant there. Rhododendron canadense (a rare plant in New York) is reported for the first time from this part of the state.