| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Phylogeography and Mating System of Spiraea Virginiana Britton: A Multi-Scale Exploration of the Biology of a Threatened Species |
2010 |
1849 |
This thesis explores the genetic structure and reproductive biology of Spiraea virginiana, a threatened shrub endemic to 2nd and 3rd order drainages in the southern Appalachians and Cumberland Plateau. I analyzed a dataset created with eight Inter S... |
| Developing New Morphological, Geographic, and Molecular Tools to Circumscribe Hexastylis naniflora |
2013 |
2466 |
Hexastylis Rafinesque is a genus of 11 species that is broken down into three groups. The Hexastylis Heterophylla subgroup contains three closely related species: H. heterophylla Small, H. minor Blomquist, and H. naniflora Blomquist. Hexastylis nanif... |
| Using cpDNA to Assess Species Delimitation between Liatris helleri Porter (Asteraceae) and Liatris turgida Gaiser |
2013 |
971 |
Liatris helleri is a federally-threatened perennial species endemic to nine populations in Western North Carolina. Evidence suggests that L. helleri is morphologically indistinguishable from L. turgida, and thus should be subsumed into a single speci... |