Carol C. Baskin, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1968

Jerry M. Baskin, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1967


Research Interests

Plant geography of Kentucky


Historical occurrence of barrens (black) in the Big Barrens Region of Kentucky and Tennessee (modified from Baskin et al. 1994). Subsections (or section) of the Interior Low Plateaus Physiographic Province are: 1=Knobstone Escarpment and Knobs; 2=Elizabethtown Plain; 3=Brush Creek Hills; 4=Greensburg Upland; 5=Pennyroyal Plain; 6=Central Basin (a section); 7=Western Highland Rim; 8=Marion; 9=Mammoth Cave Plateau; 10=Ohio River Hills and Lowlands; and 11=The Dripping Spring Escarpment. Barrens on the Kentucky portion of the KKP are from Dicken (1935) and those on the Tennessee portion from Transeau (1935). Used with permission from the southern Appalachian Botanical Society.

Map of historical occurrence of barrens  

Little bluestem-dominated barren  

A little bluestem-dominated barren on the Fort Campbell Military Reservation, Montgomery County, Tennessee.