Guide to the littoral zone vascular flora of Carolina bay lakes (U.S.A.)

This checklist does not represent a complete inventory of this locality, but rather serves as a baseline for future research. Taxa are arranged by major groups (i.e., gymnosperms, magnoliids, monocotyledons, and eudicotyledons), then alphabetically by family, genus, and species. Basal angiosperms and pteridophytes were not represented by vouchers, observations, or reports and are therefore not included in the following checklist. Brackets around a taxon indicate that it is unvouchered (i.e., it has been reported by outside agencies or has been observed by the present author, but has not been collected). Status and rank designations are also provided for rare taxa monitored by the NC Natural Heritage Program (Robinson and Finnegan 2014)