BIOL 325
Plant Systematics (Syllabus)

Lecture Topics.
Topic 01 - Introduction to Plant Systematics (Outline, Powerpoint)
Topic 02 - Overview of Plant Taxa (Outline, Powerpoint)
Topic 03 - Taxonomy & the Botanical Code of Nomenclature (Outline, Reading)

Tree Project Support.
Assignment Document with group arial photos  

A Website containing information and photos of some non-native plants in and around Pennsylvanian woodlands.	An interactive checklist of Lancaster County plants with links to illustrations. Searchable by habit plus federal and state conservation, wetland, and nativity designations.	An authoritative informatics website providing just about everything one could ever want to know about the 31 species of woody vines in Pennsylvania.

An interactive checklist of MD plants with links to illustrations. Searchable by habit plus federal and state conservation, wetland, and nativity designations.	An interactive checklist of woody PA plants with links to illustrations. Searchable by habit, conservation status, and taxonomic class.	For Manuel.

A 22x28" poster-version of an illustrated glossary of botanical terminology.	A 22x28" poster-version of a photographic guide to plants invasive to Mid-Atlantic woodlands	A 24x36" poster-version of a photographic guide to lawn weeds

2008

Hardy CR, NW Hardy (in press) Simple biodiversity mashups for non-tech-savvy biologists: a demonstration using the liana flora of Pennsylvania, USA. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.

Hardy CR, P Moline, HP Linder (2008) A Phylogeny for the African Restionaceae, and New Perspectives on Morphology's Role in Generating Complete Species Phylogenies for Large Clades. International Journal of Plant Sciences 169: 377-390.
(Please contact Keeper for pdf of article; click here for supporting electronic appendices, matrices, and cladograms)

2007

Hardy CR, HP Linder (2007) Phylogeny and historical ecology of Rhodocoma (Restionaceae) from the Cape Floristic Region. Aliso 23: 213-226.
(pdf available)

2006

Hardy CR (2006) Reconstructing ancestral ecologies: challenges and possible solutions. Diversity & Distributions 12: 7-19.
(pdf available)

Davis JI, G Petersen, O Seberg, DW Stevenson, CR Hardy, MP Simmons, FA Michelangeli, DH Goldman, LM Campbell, CD Specht, JI Cohen (2006) Are mitochondrial genes useful for the analysis of monocot relationships? Taxon 55: 857-870.

Petersen G, O Seberg, JI Davis, D Goldman, DW Stevenson, LM Campbell, FA Michelangeli, CD Specht, MW Chase, MF Fay, JC Pires, JV Freudenstein, CR Hardy, MP Simmons (2006) Mitochondrial data in monocot phylogenetics. Aliso 22: 52-62.
(pdf available)

2005

Hardy CR, HP Linder (2005) Intraspecific variability and timing in ancestral ecology reconstruction: A test case from the Cape flora. Systematic Biology 54 (2): 299-316.
(pdf available)

Linder HP, CR Hardy (2005) Speciation in the Cape flora: A macroevolutionary and macroecological perspective. Pp. 46-73 in F. T.
Bakker, L. W. Chatrou, B. Gravendeel and P. B. Pelser, eds. Plant species-level systematics: new perspectives on pattern & process. Koeltz, Königstein
(pdf available)

Linder HP, CR Hardy, F Rutschmann (2005) Taxon sampling effects in molecular clock dating: An example from the African Restionaceae. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 35: 569-582.
(pdf available)

2004

Hardy CR, RB Faden (2004). Commelinaceae. Pp 425-427 in Smith N, S Mori, A Henderson, DW Stevenson, SV Heald (eds.) Flowering Plants of the Neotropics. Princeton University Press.

Hardy CR, RB Faden (2004) Plowmanianthus, a new genus of Commelinaceae with five new species from tropical America. Systematic Botany 29 (2): 316-333.
(pdf available)

Hardy CR, JI Davis, DW Stevenson (2004) Floral organogenesis in Plowmanianthus (Commelinaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 165 (4): 511-519.
(pdf available)

Davis JI, DW Stevenson, G Petersen, O Seberg, LM Campbell, JV Freudenstein, DH Goldman, CR Hardy, FA Michelangeli, MP Simmons, CD Specht, F Vergara-Silva, MA Gandolfo (2004) A phylogeny of the monocots, as inferred from rbcL and atpA sequence variation, and a comparison of methods for calculating jackknife and bootstrap values. Systematic Botany 29 (3): 467-510.
(pdf available)

Linder HP, CR Hardy (2004) Evolution of the species-rich Cape flora. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 359 (1450): 1623-1632.
(pdf available)  

2003

Hardy CR (2003) Malawi . Natural History 112 (travel issue, supplement 4A): 75.

Hardy CR, DL Lipscomb, KC Nixon, H Ochoterena (2003) WinClada ver. 1.0, a basic users manual. Available upon request from Kevin C. Nixon, Bailey Hortorium, 462 Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.  

2001

Hardy CR (2001) Systematics of Cochliostema, Geogenanthus, and an undescribed genus in the spiderwort family Commelinaceae. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY .  

2000

Dyer AF, JC Parks, S Lindsay (2000) Historical review of the uncertain taxonomic status of Cystopteris dickieana R.Sim (Dickie's bladder fern). Edinburgh Journal of Botany 57 (1): 71-81.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

Hardy CR, DW Stevenson (2000) Floral organogenesis in some species of Tradescantia and Callisia (Commelinaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 161 (4): 551-562.
(pdf available)

Hardy CR, DW Stevenson (2000) Development of the flower, gametophytes, and floral vasculature in Cochliostema odoratissimum (Commelinaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (1): 131-157.
(pdf available)

Hardy CR, DW Stevenson, HG Kiss (2000) Development of the flower, gametophytes, and floral vasculature in Dichorisandra thyrsiflora (Commelinaceae). American Journal of Botany 87 (9): 1228-1239.
(pdf available)

Parks JC, AF Dyter, S Lindsay (2000) Allozyme, spore and frond variation in some Scottish populations of the ferns Cystopteris dickieana and Cystopteris fragilis. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 57 (1): 83-105.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

Parks JC (2000). Lycopodiaceae. Pp 64-70 in Rhoads AF, TA Block (eds.) The plants of Pennsylvania: an illustrated manual. University of Pennsylvania Press.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

Parks JC, JD Montgomery (2000). Ferns. Pp 71-106 in Rhoads AF, TA Block (eds.) The plants of Pennsylvania: an illustrated manual. University of Pennsylvania Press.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

Stevenson DW, JI Davis, JV Freudenstein, CR Hardy, MP Simmons, CD Specht (2000) A phylogenetic analysis of the monocotyledons based on morphological and molecular character sets, with comments on the placement of Acorus and Hydatellaceae. Pp 17-24 in Wilson KL and DA Morrison (eds.) Monocots: systematics and evolution. CSIRO Publishing: Australia.

1998

Parks JC, KA Mosser (1998) A morphological and allozymal study of a Cystoperis tennesseensis (Dryopteridaceae) population: first report of the species in Lancaster County, PA. Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences 71 (2): 78-83.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

1989

Parks JC (1989) Distribution of gametophytic populations of Vittaria and Trichomanes in Pennsylvania. Rhodora 91: 201-206.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

1985

Parks JC (1985) Erigenia bulbosa in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Bartonia 51.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

Stober SS, JC Parks (1985) Chromosomal studies of Physalis virginiana var. subglabrata and Physalis heterophylla. Bartonia 51: 65-68.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

1984

Parks JC (1984) A first report of the fern genus Vittaria in New York. Rhodora 86 (848): 421-423.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

Parks JC (1984) New Pennsylvania locality of Cryptogramma stelleri. Bartonia 50: 63.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

1983

Parks JC (1983) The fern genera Vittaria and Trichomanes in the Northeastern United States. Rhodora 85 (841): 83-92.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

1973

Parks JC (1973) A revision of North American and Caribbean Melanthera (Compositae). Rhodora 75: 169-210.
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

1969

Parks JC (1969) Simple technique for demonstrating chromosomal coils using Tradescantia pollen mother cells. Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 43: 61-63.  
(Millersville Library Bibliography)

1968

Parks JC (1968) A revision of the genus Melanthera Rohr (Compositae): in North America and the Caribbean. Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University.  
(Millersville Library Bibliography)