Eurytaenia (Apiaceae) Louisiana. Phytoneiron 2015-51: 1-2. Published 21 September i r i i EURYTAENIA TEXANA (APIACEAE) NATIVE TO LOUISIANA Guy Nesom L. 2925 Hartwood Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76109 guynesom@sbcglobal .net & T Eurytaeni texana orr. Gray is relatively widespread, though not abundant, through central T exas to north-central Oklahoma, not quite reaching Kansas. It occurs mostly in sandy habitats from abandoned fields, pastures, roadsides, sandy prairies, mesquite savannas, and floodplains to oak- juniper and live oak-post oak woodlands (Nesom 2012). The present note documents the native occurrence ofthe species in a prairie remnant in northwestern Louisiana (Fig. 1). Louisiana. Caddo Par.: Shreveport, North Lakeshore Drive at Roy Road, prairie remnmant, margin of elm-oak forest, hard clay, common biennial-perennial, 21 Apr 1998, S.R. Hill 30040 (MO); ca. 4 mi SE of Blanchard, S ofLa Hwy 173, roadbanks ofNorth Lakeshore Drive, 29 May 1979, Thomas 65016 (MO-2 sheets). The two localities are described differently but both collections appear to be from the very same place, on the west-northwest perimeter of Shreveport, about 2.3 Hwy miles from Interstate 20, slightly north ofCross Lake, southeast of Lakeview Park. Figure 1. Distribution ofEurytaenia texana. Solid dots from Nesom (2012), open symbols from Haimick et al. (2013) and Turner et al. (2003); blue-filled symbol represents new record from Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Nesom: Eurytaenia\u Louisiana 2 LITERATURE CITED Nesom, G.L. 2012. Taxonomy ofEurytaenia (Apiaceae). Phytoneuron 2012-67: 1-7. Hannick, V.C., J.N. Mink, J.R. Singhurst, and W.C. Holmes. 2013. Annotated checklist of the McLennan vascular flora of County, Texas. Phytoneuron 2013-29: 1-37. Turner, B.L., H. Nichols, G. Denny, and O. Doron. 2003. Atlas of the Vascular Plants of Texas. Vol. I-Dicots. Sida, Bot. Miscell. 24.