[ Reprinted from Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences for ls«»5. Vol. Ill 1 



MOTES ON THE FLORA OP WESTERN IOWA. 



BY L. H. PAMMEL. 



The iiora of the loess in western Iowa is unique, in many 

 respects. While it may be said that many parts of the state 

 have a typical prairie flora, certain species being common from 

 Texas to British America, east to Wisconsin, Illinois and 

 Indiana, only occasionally do we find plants of the great plains 

 in our own state. Western species are somewhat unequally 

 distributed in cur state; they occupy a larger area in north- 

 western Iowa than in southern and western. In northern 

 Iowa a few prominent types appear, as in Emmet county. Of 

 these I may mention Bouteloua oligostachya, Agropyrum caninum, 

 A. caesium, Orindelia squarrosa, Helianthus Maximiliani. The 

 latter is not, however, a typical western plant, though intro- 

 duced in central Iowa. It crosses our western border on the 

 loess and extends south to Texas. 



The loess of western Iowa is peculiar so far as the flora is 

 concerned, nothing like it in Iowa. A number of American 

 writers have written upon the peculiarities of its plant life. B. 

 F. Bush 1 has given us a complete catalogue of the flora of 

 northwestern Missouri. 



A. S. Hitchcock 1 has reported a few of the plants occurring 

 near Sioux City, and in general touches on the flora of western 

 Iowa. 



J. W. McGee considers the loess flora of northeastern Iowa. 

 The two regions are however not similar from a botanical 

 standpoint. It may be well to speak of the formation in this 



'Notes on tiic mound flora of Atchison county, Missouri. Reprint, Sixth Ann. Rep. 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, 1886, pp. 191-181. 



bhe Bora <>f Iowa. Hot. Gazette 'Vol. XIV, p. 127 



