A Comparison and Reconciliation of the Checklist and Atlas of Tennessee Vascular Plants with Published Volumes of the Flora of North America

The current checklist of Tennessee vascular plants, published in 1993, and the two-volume atlas of distribution maps of the state’s flora, published in 1993 and 1997 (and now available electronically), were compared and reconciled with volume 2 (pteridophytes and gymnosperms, published 1993) and volume 3 (dicots: Magnoliophyta: Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae, published 1997) of the Flora of North America (FNA). Numerous differences were found, including: (1) 18 taxa documented in the checklist/atlas that were not credited to Tennessee by FNA; (2) 15 FNA-listed taxa that apparently are additions to the Tennessee flora; (3) seven checklist/atlas taxa that were reduced to synonymy by FNA; (4) 40 checklist/atlas taxa that, in FNA, were changed taxonomically or nomenclatorially, transferred to another family, or some other discrepancy occurs. All changes are presented in tabular form.