Botanical Research Institute of Texas: Flora diversity of the LBJ National Grasslands - Fort Worth

Part of BRIT's Brown Bag Speaker Series. 

Robert O'Kennon & Kim Norton Taylor present “Flora diversity of the LBJ National Grasslands.”

The LBJNGL is a U.S. Forest Service preserve totaling more than 20,000 acres that has diverse soils and habitats that has produced over 1,000 species of plants. It has over 1,000 ponds, each being unique in floral diversity. Properties obtained in the 1930s and 1950s following the worst dust-bowl droughts in U.S. history were cattle ranches with stock tank ponds built to supply water for the livestock. Through the years, these man-made ponds have collected seeds from various sources and the resulting plants, some quite rare, have been protected and allowed to survive. Some unusual and rare plants and details on pond flora diversity will be discussed.