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Volume 90— Issue 1 (May 2025)

The Richard and Minnie Windler Award recognizes the authors of the best systematics and ecology papers published in Castanea during the previous year. For 2025, authors of two articles were selected as winners: Edward R. Schilling, Aaron Floden, Jordan Reed, Cory Hale, Todd Crabtree, and Caitlin Elam for their article, “Molecular barcoding the rare plants of Tennessee.” (Castanea 89[2]:149–168), and David L. Phillips and Justin L. Hart for their article, “Twenty years of structural change, including tornado damage, in southern disjunct eastern hemlock stands” (Castanea 89[2]:169–181).

Both aquatic flora and Mississippi flora are underrepresented in herbarium collections. This paper reports nine noteworthy collections of 6 aquatic and wetland taxa in Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi. These taxa include 5 angiosperms and 1 charophyte. Two of these taxa are introduced to the United States, while the rest are presumed native. Lychnothamnus barbatus, Utricularia tenuicaulis, and Vallisneria ×pseudorosulata are new to the flora of Mississippi and Cyperus blepharoleptos is new to the flora of Arkansas.