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HARPER'S BEAUTY

This photo was taken during a Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS) 2010 conference field trip in the Apalachicola National Forest. This year's FNPS conference will be held May 17-20 in Plant City with field trips all around west central Florida.

Harper's beauty is a small endangered perennial is found only in Franklin and Liberty Counties of the Florida panhandle, occurring in wet prairies, seepage slopes, pitcherplant bogs and transition zones into scrub habitat.
Harperocallis flava is named for Roland MacMillan Harper (1878-1966), a botanist and geographer working at various times for Georgia, Alabama and Florida during his career. He was fond of windshield botanizing while riding in trains or automobiles, and was known to take long solitary treks to note the smaller plants. During a two hour train stop at Tifton Georgia, he found 'a sloping bog' where he discovered two new species: a beaksedge and purple-disk honeycomb-head. He studied the bogs of the Apalachicola area, documenting the pitcher plants found there. Harper's observations of the coastal plain landscapes led him to become one of the early advocates of the use of fire to maintain the ecosystems, then strongly opposed by the US Forest Service. Sidney McDaniel, a young botanist and student of Robert Godfrey at Florida State University - in his dissertation on Sarracenia -noted Harper's work on pitcher plants. A year after Harper's death, McDaniel discovered a new species of tiny lily-like plant along Hwy 65 near Sumatra, and named it Harper's beauty.
Originally considered a member of the Lily family, Harperocallis flava has recently been reclassified into the newer Tofieldiaceae family.
See the Wild Florida Photo Harperocallis flava page for a detailed description and more photos.
For more information on Harper's beauty visit the Center for Plant Conservation or see the Florida Natural Areas Inventory Field Guide page(pdf) for this species.

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