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The Tennessee Native Plant Society (TNPS), founded 1977, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Nashville for preservation and education about the native flora of Tennessee including the Great Smoky Mountains. [2] TNPS supports the Tennessee-Kentucky Plant Atlas, an online database of plant distribution records, maps, and images.
Conservation of the Old Forest began in 1901, when Overton Park was created when the 342 acres (1.38 km 2) Lea Woods was purchased by the City of Memphis. 172 acres (0.70 km 2) of its original climax oak-hickory cover was preserved as the Old Forest. In 1912, the area was described as follows: More than thirty kinds of native timber are found ...
67 cities use a mayor-aldermanic charter under Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) §6-1-101 et seq. Hendersonville is the largest city using this type of charter. 49 cities use a uniform city manager-commission charter under TCA §6-18-101 et seq. Brentwood is the largest city operating with a uniform manager-commission charter.
Name (by alphabetical order) Location (of main entrance) Bledsoe State Forest: Bledsoe County: Cedars Of Lebanon State Forest: Wilson County: Chickasaw State Forest: Hardeman County: Chuck Swan State Forest: Union County: Franklin State Forest: Marion County: John Tully State Forest: Lauderdale County: Lewis State Forest: Lewis County: Lone ...
The following is a partial listing of Tree Cities USA. [1] To be a Tree City, the community must meet four standards set by the National Arbor Day Foundation and the National Association of State Foresters: The community must have a tree board or department. The community must have established a community ordinance for tree care.
The Tennessee Invasive Plant Council has identified the following invasive plants in Tennessee. The plants are all widely established across the state and have been reported in more than 10 counties.
Venango - An eastern Native American name in reference to a figure found on a tree, carved by the Erie. Waco - Named after Waco, Texas, which is the name of one of the divisions of the Tawokoni whose village stood on the site of Waco, Texas. Wahoo; Winnebago; Wyoming - Derived from a corrupted Delaware word meaning "large plains" or "extensive ...
This category contains the native flora of Tennessee as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic. Include taxa here that are endemic or have restricted distributions (e.g. only a few countries).