Vascular Plant Research

A photo of a pink lady slipper growing in Acadia National Park from the park's digital archives

NPS Photo

Rand and Redfield (1894) conducted a complete floristic inventory on Mount Desert Island, a culmination of 15 seasons of field work involving many botanists. Davis (1961) studied the spruce-fir forests of the coast of Maine from 1958-1960, including 6 stands in Acadia National Park. He included a description, synthesis of data collected, and qualitative observations for each stand as well as quantitative tree data. Wise (1970) conducted a 2-year (1968-1969) field inventory of Isle au Haut’s flora and notes 724 plant species on the island.

• Rand, E.L., and J.H. Redfield. 1894. Flora of Mount Desert Island, Maine : a preliminary catalogue of the plants growing on Mount Desert and the adjacent islands. Cambridge University Press, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2178902
• Wise, D.A. 1970. The flora of Isle au Haut, Maine. Rhodora 72(792):505-32. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2178285
• Davis, R.B. 1961. The spruce-fir forests of the coast of Maine. Dissertation., Cornell University. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2179790
• Wise, D.A. 1970. The vascular flora of Isle au Haut, Knox County, Maine. Dissertation., University of New Hampshire. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2179861

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