Help - vascular plants in Antartica

[Susan B. Farmer]

This is from a colleague who is not a subscriber to Taxacom.  He worked
on Fungi in Antartica.

>
>Poa annua is not native to Antarctica.  It was introduced, I believe, as
>part of a series of experiments to see how some northern species would
>survive in the Antarctic - and as Alex writes, some plants do survive in
>disturbed ground around some of the bases.   These experiments occurred in
>the late 50's or early 60's and have since ceased, of course, with the
>institution of regulations banning the introduction of foreign species to
>Antarctica.
>
>Rick
>
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>Richard Weinstein Ph.D.
>Instructor
>Department of Botany
>University of Tennessee
>Knoxville, TN 37996-1100
>e-mail: rweinste at utk.edu
>

Susan
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Susan Farmer
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Botany Department, University of Tennessee
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium