Plant Parasitic Fungi of Ten Tallgrass Prairies of Iowa: Distribution and Prevalence

Authors

Lois H. Tiffany, Iowa State UniversityFollow
George Knaphus, Iowa State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Research

Keywords

prairie plant disease fungi, smut fungi, plant rusts, leaf spot fungi

Abstract

During the 1980s and 1990s, collections of fungal parasites on above ground parts of prairie plants in Iowa were made throughout the growing seasons. This report presents the fungi recorded from three groups of Iowa tallgrass prairies. The western group was composed of Dinesen, Steele and Stinson Prairie State Preserves, a Loess Hills group of collecting sites in Five Ridge and Runkel Prairie State Preserves and prairies at Waubonsie State Park. 180 species of fungi were collected on 116 hosts from these prairies. A central Iowa group of prairies associated with the Des Moines Lobe landform, Anderson, Doolittle, Kalsow and Ames High (Pohl) Prairie State Preserves, yielded 162 species of fungi from 91 hosts. Two sand prairie state preserves, Cedar Hills and Marietta, provided 78 fungi on 54 hosts. 116 of the species encountered in the current study were not reported in a previous 1990 study of four northern Iowa prairies.

Publication Date

March-June 2004

Journal Title

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

111

Issue

1-2

First Page

1

Last Page

42

Copyright

© Copyright 2004 by the Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

EN

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Tiffany, Lois H. and Knaphus, George (2004) "Plant Parasitic Fungi of Ten Tallgrass Prairies of Iowa: Distribution and Prevalence," Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS, 111(1-2), 1-42.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/jias/vol111/iss1/3