Vascular flora of Bark Camp Barrens WMA, Coffee County, Tennessee

A vascular plant inventory of Bark Camp Barrens Wildlife Management Area, Coffee County, Tennessee was performed over the 2023 and 2024 growing seasons. The site is a 1,395-ha area located 10km east of Manchester, Tennessee in the Barrens region of the Eastern Highland Rim. A total of 698 species and lower taxa from 349 genera and 127 families were inventoried. Two species were G1 or G2, 35 species were listed on the Tennessee Rare Plant List, and 209 species were S1 or S2. Additionally, all known digitized herbarium specimens from the nearby May Prairie State Natural Area were cataloged, creating a preliminary vascular plant checklist of 387 species. Furthermore, a list of 128 species believed to reside in the May Prairie State Natural Area, were identified for targeted specimen collection. Most rare species were found to reside in geographically isolated wetlands, which are under imminent threat of deregulation in Tennessee.