The Journal of The Southern Appalachian Botanical Society
Castanea Journal began publication in 1936.
In 1993 we added the Chinquapin Newsletter as a quarterly publication for our members.
Generations of botanists and supporters have made possible an 83 year legacy of contributions to scientific literature.
Castanea serves professional and amateur botanists by reviewing and publishing scientific papers related to botany in the Eastern United States
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Castanea and the Chinquapin newsletter are publications of our sponsor organization, the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Castanea takes its name from the genus of the American Chestnut tree, Castanea dentata. This now critically endangered tree once made up 35% of the Eastern forests before being devastated by a blight that destroyed up to 4 billion American Chestnut trees.
Our archives provide members digital access to Castanea, Chinquapin (the SABS newsletter), and Occasional Papers in Eastern Botany.
Castanea was first published in 1936 by The Southern Appalachian Botanical Club and is now in its 84th volume.
In 1993 the Society began publishing Chinquapin, which carries letters to the editor, endowment news, wild ideas, botanical gardens, notes on specific plants, botanical excursions and other exciting topics.
Delmarva Lichens: An Illustrated Manual, by James Lendemer and Nastassja Noell, is a much-welcomed contribution that highlights the lichen and allied fungal diversity of the
Apocynaceae display highly complex and diverse floral morphologies. Pollen dispersal units include monads (single pollen grains; e.g. Plumeria), tetrads (Apocynum), and pollen packaged in pollinia,
Hypotrachyna oprah is described as new to science from collections made at locations in southeastern North America (Alabama, Florida, North Carolina). The species is considered
Endemic to the mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia, piratebush (Buckleya distichophylla, Santalaceae) is a rare, dioecious, hemi-parasitic shrub with a scattered and isolated
A second population of Phemeranthus calycinus (Montiaceae, large-flowered rock pink) was confirmed for southwestern Illinois. This is the second site known east of the Mississippi
Clematis fremontii, Hamilton County. Significance. This is the second known population of C. fremontii in Tennessee, where it is an S1, listed endangered species. The
Lamium galeobdolon (L.) L. (Lamiaceae) – Rockingham County This is the first report of L. galeobdolon (yellow archangel) in Rockingham County. Prior to these collections,
New state records or clarifications of state distribution are presented for twenty taxa of vascular plants growing in West Virginia. These include twelve species considered
SYSTEMATICS Quilling with (left to right) Lytton Musselman, Peter Schafran, and Carl Taylor. ECOLOGY Peter W. Schafran Elizabeth A. Zimmer W. Carl Taylor Lytton J.
ABSTRACT: The ability of seeds to persist long term and still germinate readily with substantial seedling survival are characteristics shared by many invasive plants, often
Woody plant composition, trees per ha, basal area, are provided for both units of the W. L. Giles Bur Oak Preserve, in the Black Belt
Taxonomists have traditionally distinguished two very similar Southern Appalachian endemic herbs, Micranthes careyana and M. caroliniana, by differences in four floral characters: sepal orientation, filament
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