Botany Publications

Freeman, C.C. 2021. Coefficients of Conservatism for Kansas vascular plants (2021) and selected life history attributes. Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas.

Morse, C.A. and D. Ladd. 2021. A new species of Reichlingia (Arthoniaceae) from the grasslands of central North America. The Bryologist 124: 33–38.

Quedensley, T.S., D.A. Kruse, and C.A. Morse. 2001. An inventory of a private property illustrates diverse cryptogam floras in north central Texas. Castanea 82: 245–265.

Tippery, N. P., D. H. Les, K. J. Appenroth, K. S. Sree, D. J. Crawford, and M. Bog. 2021. Lemnaceae and Orontiaceae are phylogenetically and morphologically distinct from Araceae. Plants 2021, 10: 2639. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10122639

Cho M.-S., S.-H. Kim, J. Y. Yang, D. J, Crawford, T. F. Stuessy, P. López-Sepúlveda, and S.-C. Kim. 2020. Plastid phylogenomics of Dendroseris (Cichorieae; Asteraceae): Insights into structural organization and molecular evolution of an endemic lineage from the Juan Fernández Islands. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: 594272. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.594272

Gibson, M. J. S., D. J. Crawford, M. T. Holder, M. E. Mort, B. Kerbs, M. Menezes de Sequeira, and J. K. Kelly. 2020. Genome-wide genotyping estimates mating system parameters and paternity in the island species Tolpis succulenta. American Journal of Botany 107: 1190-1197. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1515

Kerbs, B., D. J. Crawford, G. White, M. Moura, L. Borges Silva, H. Schaefer, K. Brown, M. E. Mort, and J. K. Kelly. 2020. How rapidly do self‐compatible populations evolve selfing? Mating system estimation within recently evolved self‐compatible populations of Azorean Tolpis succulenta (Asteraceae). Ecology and Evolution 2020, 10: 13990-13999. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6992

Morse, C. A. and J. W. Sheard. 2020. Rinodina lecideopsis(Teloschistales, Physciaceae) a new endemic species from the central United States related to R. bischoffii. The Bryologist 123: 31–38.

Beach, T., S. Luzzadder-Beach, T.H. Guderjan, F. Valdez Jr., S. Eshlemna, C. Doyle, and S. Bozarth. 2019. Ancient Maya wetland management in two watersheds in Belize: soils, water, and paleoenvironmental change. Quatern. Int. 502: 280–295.

Crawford, D. J., M. Moura, L. Borges Silva, M. E. Mort, B. Kerbs, H. Schaefer, and J. K. Kelly. 2019. The transition to selfing in Azorean Tolpis (Asteraceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 305: 305–317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-019-01573-7

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Chionophila (Plantaginaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 61–62). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Dasistoma (Orobanchaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols. (Vol. 17, pp. 560). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Gratiola (Plantaginaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 264–269). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Leucospora (Plantaginaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 270–271). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Misopates (Plantaginaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 36–37). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Nuttallanthus (Plantaginaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 40–42). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Paulownia (Paulowniaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 454–455). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Penstemon (Plantaginaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 82–255). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Scoparia (Plantaginaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 276–277). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Sophronanthe (Plantaginaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 277–278). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Tonella (Plantaginaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 256–257). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2019. Veronicastrum (Plantaginaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 322–323). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. and C.A. Morse. 2019. New and interesting plant records for the central United States. Missouriensis 37: 16–38. 

Freeman, C.C., R.K. Rabeler, and W.J. Elisens. 2019. Plantaginaceae. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 11–15). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C., R.K. Rabeler, and W.J. Elisens. 2019. Orobanchaceae. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 456–459). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C., R.K. Rabeler, and W.J. Elisens. 2019. Paulowniaceae. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 453). New York and Oxford.

Haddock, M.J. and C.C. Freeman. 2019. Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines in Kansas, Revised and Expanded Edition. University Press of Kansas.

Lewis, D.Q., C.C. Freeman, R.K. Rabeler, and W.J. Elisens. 2019. Linderniaceae. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 18+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 353–353). New York and Oxford.

Morse, C.A. and D. Ladd. 2019. Staurothele nemorum sp. nov. (Ascomycota: Verrucariaceae), with a revised key to North American Staurothele sensu lato. Lichenologist 51: 495–506.

Rabeler, R.K., and C.C. Freeman. 2019. Chaenorhinum (Plantaginaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 17–18). New York and Oxford.

Rabeler, R.K. and C.C. Freeman. 2019. Mazaceae. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 363). New York and Oxford.

Rabeler, R.K. and C.C. Freeman. Tetrachondraceae. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 8–9). New York and Oxford.

Rabeler, R.K., C.C. Freeman, and W.J. Elisens. 2019. Pedaliaceae. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 360–361). New York and Oxford.

Rabeler, R.K., G.L. Nesom, C.C. Freeman, and W.J. Elisens. 2019. Phrymaceae. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 365–366). New York and Oxford.

Rabeler, R.K., C.C. Freeman, and W.J. Elisens. 2019. Scrophulariaceae. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 17, pp. 324–326). New York and Oxford.

Tripp, E.A., C.A. Morse, K.G. Keepers, C.A. Stewart, C.S. Pogoda, K.H. White, J.R. Hoffman, N.C. Kane, C.M. McCain. 2019. Evidence of substrate endemism of lichens on Fox Hills Sandstone: Discovery and description of Lecanora lendemeri as new to science. The Bryologist 122: 246–259.

Freeman, C.C. and Goddard, S.H. 2018. Catalogue 71–78. In S. H. Goddard, Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World (pp. 148–151). Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas.

Ladd, D. and C.A. Morse. 2018. A new lichenicolous species of Toninia (Ramalinaceae) on Dermatocarpon in central North America. The Bryologist121: 214–220.

Morse, C.A. and J.C. Lendemer. 2019. A new Biatoridium from eastern North America, with comments on the disposition of species of Biatorellasensu Magnusson. The Bryologist 122: 1–9.

Archibald, J. K., J. Cook, B. Anderson, S.D. Johnson, and M.E. Mort. 2017. A reassessment of the phylogeny and circumscription of Zaluzianskya (Scrophulariaceae). Molec. Phylog. Evol. 112: 194–208.

Crawford, D.J. and J.K. Archibald. 2017. Island floras as model systems for studies of plant speciation: Prospects and challenges. J. Syst. Evol. 55: 1–15.

Freeman, C.C. 2017. A new combination in Penstemon (Plantaginaceae). J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 11: 287.

Freeman, C.C. 2017. Review of the book Steyermark's Flora of Missouri. Volume 3, revised edition. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 116: 104–105.

Freeman, C.C. 2017. Nomenclatural novelties and notes in Penstemon (Plantaginaceae). Phytokeys 80: 33–39. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.80.12962.

Huggins, D., J. Kastens, D. Baker, and C.C. Freeman. 2017. Development of Missouri Reference Wetlands. Kansas Biological Survey. Final report to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for Contract G14-WET-01, KUCR project STE72795.

Huggins, D., J. Kastens, D. Baker, and Freeman, C.C. 2017. Conversion of existing farm ponds to wetlands in agricultural landscapes for mitigation, land use treatment and conservation with a perspective toward climate change. Kansas Biological Survey. Final report to the Kansas Water Office for Contract 15-111, KUCR project 72845.

Advaita, M.K., C.A. Morse, and D. Ladd. 2016. Lichens, lichenicolous fungi, and allied fungi of Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota, revisited. Opuscula Philolichenum 15: 56–81.

Freeman, C.C. 2016. Carpenteria (Hydrangeaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 12, pp. 485). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2016. Hydrangea (Hydrangeaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 12, pp. 486–489). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2016. Hydrangeaceae. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 12, pp. 462–463). New York and Oxford.

Freeman, C.C. 2016. Jamesia (Hydrangeaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 20+ vols (Vol. 12, pp. 464–466). New York and Oxford.

Morse, C.A. 2016. Two new species of Thelenella and new reports from the Great Plains of central North America, with a world-wide key to the genus. Opuscula Philolichenum 15: 22–36.

Morse, C.A. and D. Ladd. 2016. Lecanora inaurata, a new member of the L. subfusca group from central North America. The Lichenologist 48: 377–385.

Wessinger, C.A., C.C. Freeman, M.E. Mort, M.D. Rausher, and L.C. Hileman. 2016. Multiplexed shotgun genotyping resolves species relationships within the North American genus Penstemon. Amer. J. Bot., 103: 912–922. 

Appenroth, K., D.J. Crawford, and D.H. Les. 2015. After the genome sequencing of duckweed – how to proceed with research on the fastest growing angiosperm? Pl. Biol. 17 (suppl. 1): 1–4.

Archibald, J.K., S.R. Kephart, K.E. Theiss, A.L. Petrosky, and T.M. Culley. 2015. Multilocus phylogenetic inference in subfamily Chlorogaloideae and related genera of Agavaceae-informing questions in taxonomy at multiple ranks. Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 84: 266–283.

Beach, T., S. Lazzadder-Beach, J. Flood, S. Houston, T.G. Guderjan, E. Roman, S.R. Bozarth, and J. Doyle. 2015. A neighborly view: water and environmental history of the El Zotz Region. Pp. 258–279. In: Tikal: Paleoecology of an Ancient Maya City.  D.L. Lentz, N.P. Dunning, and V.L. Scarborough (eds.).

Crawford, D.J., G.J. Anderson, L. Borges Silva, M. Menezes de Sequeira, M. Moura, A. Santos-Guerra, J.K. Kelly, and M.E. Mort. 2015. Breeding systems in Tolpis (Asteraceae) in the Macaronesian islands: the Azores, Madeira and the Canaries. Plant Syst. Evol.301: 1981–1993.DOI 10.1007/s00606-015-1210-5 

Freeman, C.C. 2015. Final report on an assessment of the status of blowout beardtongue (Penstemon haydenii S. Watson, Plantaginaceae) using molecular and morphometric approaches. R.L. McGregor Herbarium, University of Kansas.

Haddock, M.J., C.C. Freeman, and J.E. Bare. 2015. Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds. University Press of Kansas.

Lira-Noriega, A., O. Toro- Núñez, J.R. Oaks, and M.E. Mort. 2015. The roles of history and ecology in chloroplast phylogeographic patterns of the bird-dispersed plant parasite Phoradendroncalifornicum Nutt. (Viscaceae) in the Sonoran Desert. Amer. J. Bot. 102: 149-164. 

López-Sepúlveda , P., K. Takayama, J. Greimler, D.J. Crawford, P. Peñailillo, M. Baeza, E. Ruiz, G. Kole, K. Tremetsberger, A. Gatica, L. Letelier, P. Novoa, J. Novak, and T.F. Stuessy.  Progressive migration and anagenesis in Drimys confertifolia of the Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Chile. J. Plant Res.128: 73–90.

López-Sepúlveda, P., K. Takayama, J. Greimler, D.J. Crawford, P. Peñailillo,  M. Baeza, E. Ruiz, G. Kohl, K. Tremetsberger, A. Gatica, L. Letelier, P. Novoa, J. Novak, and T. F. Stuessy.  Speciation and biogeography of Erigeron (Asteraceae) in the Juan Fernández Archipelago, Chile, based on AFLPs and SSRs. Syst. Bot. 40: 888–899.

Morse, C.A. and D. Ladd. 2015. Lichenes Exsiccati Magnicamporum Fascicle 1, with comments on selected taxa. Opuscula Philolichenum14: 66–81.

Mort, M.E., D.J. Crawford, J.K. Kelly, A. Santos-Guerra, M. Menezes de Sequeira, M. Moura, and J. Caujape-Castells. 2015. Multiplexed-shotgun-genotyping data resolve phylogeny within a very recently derived insular lineage. Amer. J. Bot. 102: 634–641.

Takayama, K., P. López-Sepúlveda, J. Greimler, D.J. Crawford, P. Peñailillo, M. Baeza, E. Ruiz, G. Kohl, K. Tremetsberger, A. Gatica, L. Letelier, P. Novoa, J. Novak, and T.F. Stuessy. 2015.  Genetic consequences of cladogenetic vs anagenetic speciation in endemic plants of oceanic islands. AoB Plants 7: plv102; doi:10.1093/aobpla/plv102.

Takayama, K., P. López-Sepúlveda, J. Greimler, D.J. Crawford, P. Peñailillo, M. Baeza, E. Ruiz, G. Kohl, K. Tremetsberger, A. Gatica, L. Letelier, P. Novoa, J. Novak, and T.F. Stuessy.  2015. Relationships and genetic consequences of contrasting modes of speciation among endemic species of Robinsonia (Asteraceae, Senecioneae) of the Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Chile, based on AFLPs and SSRs. New Phytologist205: 415–428.

Tippery, N.P., D.H. Les, and D.J. Crawford. 2015. Evaluation of phylogenetic relationships in Lemnacaeae using nuclear ribosomal data. Plant Biology17 (suppl. 1): 50–58.

Toro-Núñez, O., M.E. Mort, and I.A. Al-Shehbaz. 2015. Phylogenetic study with nuclear and chloroplast data and ecological niche reveals Atacama (Brassicaceae), a new monotypic genus endemic from the Andes of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Plant Syst. Evol. 301: 1377–1396.

Crawford, D.J., J.J. Doyle, D.E. Soltis, P.S. Soltis, and J.F. Wedel. 2014. Contemporary and future studies in plant speciation, morphological/floral evolution and polyploidy: honouring the scientific contributions of Leslie D. Gottlieb to plant evolutionary biology. Philos. Trans. Royal  Soc. B 369 : 20130341.

Crawford, D.J., M. Tadesse, R.T. Kimball, P. Carrillo-Reyes, I. Sanchez-Vega, and M.E. Mort. 2014. Coreopsis sect. Pseudoagarista (Asteraceae: Coreopsideae): molecular phylogeny, chromosome numbers, and comments on taxonomy and distribution. Taxon63: 1092–1102.

Stuessy, T.F., D.J. Crawford, D.E. Soltis, and P.S. Soltis. 2014. Plant Systematics: The origin, interpretation, and ordering of plant biodiversity. Koelz Scientific Books. 425 pp.

Stuessy, T.F., K. Takayama, P. Lopez-Sepulveda, and D.J. Crawford. 2014. Interpretations of patterns of genetic variation within endemic plant species of oceanic islands. Bot. J. Linnean Soc.174: 276–288.

Tadesse, M. and D. J. Crawford. 2014. The phytomelanin layer in traditional members of Bidens L. and Coreopsis L. and phylogeny of the Coreopsideae (Compositae). Nordic J. Bot. 32: 80–91.

Crawford, D.J., M.E. Mort, and J.K. Archibald.2013. Tolpis santosii (Asteraceae: Cichorieae), a new species from La Palma, The Canary Islands. Vieraea 41: 163–169.

López-Sepúlveda, P.G, K. Takayama, J. Greimler, P. Peñailillo, D.J. Crawford, M. Baeza, E. Ruiz, G. Kohl, K. Tremetsberger, A. Gatica, L. Letelier, P. Novoa, J. Novak, and T. F. Stuessy. 2013. Genetic variation (AFLPS and nuclear microsatellites) in two anagenetically derived endemic species of Myrceugenia (Myrtaceae) on Juan Fernández Islands, Chile. Amer. J. Bot. 100: 722–734.

Morse, C.A. 2013. A new lichenicolous Enterographa (Arthoniales, Roccellaceae) from central North America. Opuscula Philolichenum12: 233–240.

Morse, C.A. and D. Ladd. 2013. A new species of Fellhanera (lichenized Ascomycota: Pilocarpaceae) from central North America. The Lichenologist 45: 341–346.

Soltis, D.E., M.E. Mort, M. Latvis, E.V. Mavrodiev, B.C. O'Meara, P.S. Soltis, J.G. Burleigh, and R. Rubio de Casas. 2013. Phylogenetic relationships and character evolution analysis of Saxifragales using a supermatrix approach. Amer. J. Bot.100: 916–929.

Soto-Trejo, F., J.K. Kelly, J.K. Archibald, M.E. Mort, A. Santos-Guerra, and D.J. Crawford. 2013. The genetics of self-compatibility and associated floral characters in Tolpis (Asteraceae) in the Canary Islands. Int. J. Pl. Sci. 174: 171–178.

Subramaniam, S., A.K. Pandey, R. Geeta, and M.E. Mort. 2013. Molecular systematics of Indian Crotalaria (Fabaceae) based on ITS sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Pl. Syst. Evol. 299: 1089–1106.

Toro-Nuñez, O., M.E. Mort, E. Ruiz-Ponce, and I.A. Al-Shehbaz. 2013. Phylogenetic relationships of Mathewsia and Schizopetalon (Brassicaceae) inferred from nrDNA and cpDNA regions: taxonomic and evolutionary insights from an Atacama Desert endemic lineage. Taxon 62: 343–356.

Crawford, D.J. 2012. Oceanic islands: evolutionary laboratories. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2012.  Pp. 166–169.

Delisle, J.D. and C.C. Freeman. 2012. Vegetation survey and mapping of the Fort Riley Military Reservation, Kansas. Open-file Rept. No. 174, Kansas Biological Survey.

Esslinger, T.L., C.A. Morse, and S.D. Leavitt. 2012. A new North American species in the lichen genus Hyperphyscia. The Bryologist 115: 31–41.

Ladd, D. and C.A. Morse. 2012. Endemism lost: Lecanora pallidochlorina (Lecanorales, lichenized Ascomycota) in the Great Plains, U.S.A. Opuscula Philolichenum 11: 60–63.

Maraner, F., M.S. Rosabelle, T. Stuessy, D.J. Crawford, J. Crisci, A. Pandey, and M.E. Mort. 2012. Molecular phylogeny of Nassauvia (Asteraceae, Mutisieae) based on nrDNA ITS sequences. Pl. Syst. Evol. 298: 399–408.