Coastal Plain Plants

Coastal Plain Plants provides current knowledge about the ecology and life history of plant species in the southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain with an emphasis on the Greater Red Hills Region of northern Florida and southern Georgia. Content is provided and updated by expert contributors in the region.

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  Plant Species Pages
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  Contributors
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  Guidelines for Contributors

Background

Coastal Plain Plants seeks to compliment existing plant databases by providing a forum for sharing information that is not limited to published literature. A great wealth of knowledge is carried by the numerous experts and enthusiasts who observe, record, photograph, and study plants and their particular habitats and life history characteristics, including seed dispersal, pollinators, herbivores, response to fire, pathogens, competitive interactions, and sensitivity to human disturbance. Potential contributors include plant ecologists, entomologists, plant pathologists, horticulturalists, wildlife biologists, soil scientists, herbalists, and others with knowledge of plant species that occur in the region.

The initial emphasis of the website is on the portion of the Coastal Plain centered on the Red Hills Region of northern Florida and southern Georgia and including the surrounding area, roughly east of the Apalachicola and Flint rivers and west of the Suwanee River, and from the Gulf of Mexico to Albany Georgia. This area is geographically and biologically diverse, including "clayhill", sandhill, and flatwoods pine communities, upland and ravine hardwood forests, depression swamps, alluvial forests, wet prairies, marshes, coastal scrub, limestone glades, and other natural community types.

Consider becoming an expert contributors and help add to the knowledge of plants in the region.

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