Abstract
In the short time that he spent in Kentucky during 1793–1796, André Michaux visited five of the state's six geographic regions. The majority of his time, however, was spent in the Bluegrass, Knobs, and Pennyroyal Regions where his plant lists and landscape descriptions are the most thorough. Unfortunately, Michaux was acting more in the capacity of an agent for France than as a botanist while he was in Kentucky. Only when Michaux's plant lists are combined with the comments and landscape descriptions of other early naturalists can a partial description of the vegetation of Kentucky around the time of statehood in 1792 be achieved.
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Claim · model-written summary
Michaux's plant lists and landscape descriptions are most thorough in the Bluegrass, Knobs and Pennyroyal Regions.
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e1“spent in the Bluegrass, Knobs, and Pennyroyal Regions where his plant lists and landscape descriptions are the most thorough”
Claim · model-written summary
A partial description of Kentucky vegetation around statehood in 1792 is achievable only by combining Michaux plant lists with other early naturalists comments.
Verbatim
e2“Only when Michaux's plant lists are combined with the comments and landscape descriptions of other early naturalists can a partial description of the vegetation of Kentucky around the time of statehood in 1792 be achieved”