Notes and News: Geranium bicknellii Extant in Ohio

Geranium bicknellii Britt. was added to the indigenous Ohio flora based on a 1929 specimen from the Oak Openings of Lucas County, northwestern Ohio (Cooperrider 1982). McCready and Cooperrider (1984) reported a 1916 collection from Wood County, and Cooperrider (pers. comm.) has seen specimens collected in Erie and Lorain Counties in the 1880’s. The species was presumed extirpated until June 1984, when I found a single plant of the species on a parcel adjacent to The Nature Conservancy’s Schwamberger/Kitty Todd Memorial Preserve in Lucas County