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Welcome to the Pineywoods Plants Digital Gallery! (Version 10.10)The "Pineywoods" represent the forested eastern edge of Texas along with the the ecologically-similar forests of adjacent northwestern and central Louisiana. Markedly different from most of Texas, tall stands of pines and broad-leaved deciduous trees cover much of the gently rolling landscape. There is a rich variety of natural habitats: dry sandy upland pine-oak communities, remnants of once-extensive longleaf pine woodlands, pine-deciduous mixed forests, vast "bottomland hardwood" forests on the floodplains of the region's numerous rivers, baldcypress swamps, and much more. The climate is warm and humid; some areas experience as much as 50" (1270 mm) of rainfall a year. Timber, poultry, and ranching are some important local industries and much of the Pineywoods remains relatively free from urbanization. Public lands such as Kisatchie National Forest (Louisiana), the National Forests & Grasslands of Texas, and the Big Thicket National Preserve enable one to easily explore the rich and varied flora which includes more than 2100 species. In this gallery you will find pictures of native and naturalized vascular plants from this fascinating, and to many, little known, part of North America. The gallery, a product of more than eight years of photographic field excursions, currently contains about 5,080 photographs representing nearly 1,000 native and naturalized species, almost half of the local vascular plant flora. Nearly all species that a causal observer is likely to encounter during a typical walk in the woods are represented along with most habitat-type indicator species. For ferns, lycophytes, gymnosperms, and monocots, nomenclature and family circumscriptions follow the newly-published Volume I of the Illustrated Flora of East Texas (Diggs et al. 2006) which mostly corresponds to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) system (APG 1998, 2003, 2009)-- the main exception being that the Agavaceae and related families are not combined into an expanded Asparagaceae as in APG. For eudicotyledons, species nomenclature follows the Flora of North America (FNA 1993+) series where possible and Kartesz (1999) for groups not yet published in FNA. Eudicot family circumscriptions follow APG. Bryophyte nomenclature follows the Bryoflora of North America website. Diggs et al. (1999), Correl and Johnston (1979), and the USDA PLANTS Database were among the many additional sources consulted for taxonomy and species identification.
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