| 0 | NA 89088 | 2024RM-TK-001 | Viburnum acerifolium L. | Alabama, United States | NA | | | 2024 | COLLECTED | 09/19/2024 | Haines Island Park. Follow Ferry Road to the top of the hill entering the park where a picnic shelter is located. Plants are growing along trails to the north of the picnic shelter. | 31.72132026, -87.46408910 | 81 | Plants are growing from part-sun to full shade in the understory of a mixed deciduous and coniferous forest on very dry upland habitat. Slope: 10 to 20 percent. Aspect: North. Geology: The underlying geology of this area is probably of Eocene age and characterized as the Claiborne Group: Tallahatta Formation. It is comprised of white to very light-greenish-gray thin-bedded to massive siliceous claystone; interbedded with thin layers of fossiliferous clay, sandy clay, and glauconitic sand and sandstone. White to light-greenish-gray fine to coarse sand and fine gravel occur at the base of the formation in southwest Alabama (Meridian Sand Member). (Source: USGS Alabama Geologic Map Data). Soils: The area of this occurrence is characterized as Arundel Series Loam, 8 to 35 percent slopes (ArF). The Arundel series consists of moderately deep, well drained, very slowly permeable soils on dissected uplands of the Southern Coastal Plain Major Land Resource Area (MLRA 133A). They formed in marine deposits consisting of acid clays underlain by horizontally bedded sandstone, buhrstone and siltstone. Slopes range from 2 to 60 percent. (Source: California Soil Resource Lab/NRCS Official Soil Series Descriptions). EPA Ecoregion (Level III): Southeastern Plains (65). EPA Ecoregion (Level IV): Buhrstone/Lime Hills (65q). | Wild material | | 2169052 | NA 89088 |
| 1 | WLP 2670 | RJL2022PA-016 | Acer negundo L. | Pennsylvania, United States | NA | | | 2022 | COLLECTED | 10/21/2022 | Plants growing in woodlands above a small unnamed creek that dumps into the Middle Branch White Clay Creek in Goddard Park, West Grove Pennsylvania, off of Wickerton Road, Chester County. Plants are found regularly but scattered in the understory of the woodlands. | 39.80426000, -75.82609300 | 105 | Plants growing in a mesic, well-drained habitat of deciduous woodlands along streams and above the riparian zone that drains toward a small unnamed creek that feeds into the Middle Branch White Clay Creek. Plants generally grow in part shade to full sun, but perform best and fruit more heavily in full sun where there is abundant access to moisture. The remnant woodlands exist mostly along the steep slopes, wetlands and seeps of seasonal and year-round creeks flowing into the Middle Branch White Clay Creek. The woodlands are bordered by numerous housing developments and land converted to meadows; hence there is significant first order edge that is heavily impacted by invasive plant intrusion. Despite this fact, Acer negundo is highly competitive and competes well.
Soils: The underlying geology of this area is the Glenarm Wissahickon Formation of lower Paleozoic origin and lithologically similar to oligoclase-mica schist of the Wissahickon Formation (PZw), but also includes lenticular amphibolite bodies having ocean-floor basalt chemistry.
Source: USGS Pennsylvania Geologic Map Data (https://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/sgmc-unit.php?unit=PAPZgw%3B0)
The primary soil type in the area of this collection is classified as Glenelg silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes. This series consists of very deep, well drained soils formed in residuum weathered from micaceous schist on uplands of the Blue Ridge and the Northern Piedmont. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high in the subsoil and moderately high to high in the substratum. This upper horizon of this soil is undifferentiated, mostly poorly drained sandy bottomland soils intermingled with decomposing organic litter and eroded silts and clays due to erosion.
Source: NRCS Web Soil Survey (https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/WebSoilSurvey.aspx) | Wild material | | 2139661 | WLP 2670 |
| 2 | Ames 32758 | Fallen Rock | Pinus strobus L. | Iowa, United States | NC7 |  | | 2014 | COLLECTED | 08/21/2014 | Fallen Rock State Preserve and adjacent private property just north of Eldora, T88N R19W SW ¼ Sec. 28 and N ¼ Sec. 32 and also T87N R19W N ½ Sec. 5. | 42.39548900, -93.09165200 | 311 | Cool moist woods. Slopes averaging 60 degrees. Northern and eastern aspects. Localized to bluffs above Iowa River. | Wild material | The native range of Pinus strobus is concentrated in the northeastern United States extending south into the northern edge of Georgia and west to central Minnesota. In Iowa, scattered native populations exist in a few northeastern counties as well as small disjunct populations in central and southeastern counties (Little, 1971). This accession includes genetics from legacy mother trees located in Fallen Rock State Preserve and nearby private property to the south. This area is near Pine Lake State Park, which in 2009 was devastated by a severe hailstorm of "supersized softballs" resulting in significant cambial damage to many species of trees. Damage to the majority of P. strobus specimens throughout the area was so severe that losses occurred immediately. Additional losses in subsequent years continued to occur likely due to additional stress by drought and destruction by bark beetles. The loss of approximately 75% of the P. strobus specimens at Pine Lake State Park was attributed to the 2009 hailstorm prompted efforts to preserve genetics of the white pines here. In 2014, specimens in parts of Pine Lake State Park and also one specimen at Fallen Rock State Preserve were sampled (Carstens, J.) as seeds from specimens ranging in size from 9.25 inches to 31.75 inches d.b.h. However, in 2021, it was determined (Place, A. pers. comm. 24 February 2021 and Carstens, J. & Sherwood, A., pers. observations 1 March 2021) that likely most if not all of the specimens in Pine Lake State Park are planted specimens of unknown origin because P. strobus specimens located at the far east end of Lower Lake (south side) were noted (Carstens and Sherwood, pers. observations 1 March 2021) growing with uncharacteristic associated taxa including Acer saccharinum and Gymnocladus dioicus. Two documents that support these observations includes: 1. Letter signed by Louis H. Pammel (March 25, 1925) to G.B. McDonald of the Iowa State University Forestry Department asking for 200 white pine to be planted at Pine Lake. 2. "Trees to Be Set Out by CCC Workers" in the Eldora Herald (May 9, 1935) referencing the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) to plant “1,000 white pines at Pine Lake State Park". Therefore, if obtained, increment borer measurements of specimens that are 94 years of age at present (2014) or older would suggest those as being true, native remnants. Documents that supports the position of remnant specimens at Fallen Rock State Preserve includes: 1. "Picturesque Drives About Eldora", in the Eldora Herald (December 8, 1910) by Clara Estabrook stating "Miss Stoddard of the Iowa Falls school says these (only 11 trees left) are the only native pines (those restricted to the sandstone cliffs) found in Hardin County" and suggested a movement to have them preserved. 2. Forest Flora of Hardin County (1899) by L. H. Pammel stating that the Iowa valley serves as the western limits for white pine and also refers to David D. Owen's geological report from 1839 indicating the occurrences of white pines on the summits of the hills along the Iowa River. In addition, a photo of white pines growing at Steamboat Rock taken by L. H. Pammel was featured on the front page of the 1919 report of the State Board of Conservation titled "Iowa Parks: Conservation of Iowa Historic, Scenic and Scientific Areas." Due to the significant presence of planted specimens of unknown origin in Pine Lake State Park and surrounding private properties, samples collected in 2014 as seeds may likely contain genetics (pollen donors) from specimens of unknown origin. This resulted in the resampling of specimens in 2021 (USFS - IAHA#'s) and 2023 as dormant scions that are from locations known to be untouched by the CCC and thus represent true, remnant specimens. To date (2021), there are only eight legacy specimens left in this population (four specimens at Fallen Rock State Preserve and four specimens at the nearby private property). The largest specimen of P. strobus (Ames 32758) is #IAHA-08 located at (42.395489, -93.091652) measuring (13 May 2018) 35.65" DBH with a height of 78.33' and a spread of 26' totalling 197 points (Rouw, M., personal communication, 8 February 2023). This germplasm represents the southwestern most population of native P. strobus in Iowa and one of the western most populations in North America. Germplasm likely is adapted to Midwestern climatic extremes and potentially very drought tolerant in comparison to other provenances from the eastern or northeastern U.S. | 1921270 | Ames 32758 |