Center for Cedar Glade Studies
at Middle Tennessee State University

The Tennessee Purple Coneflower was officially delisted from endangered to threatened status on September 2, 2011. (Click this link to read more)
To view videos about the coneflower, visit these two links:
Celebrate the Coneflower
The Coneflower in the Cedar Glades

Please join us Spring, 2012 for the following events:

Friday, April 27 - Cedar Glade Research Roundtable & Evening Program
Saturday, April 28 - Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade Wildflower Festival
Cedars of Lebanon State Park
(Click here for last year's 2011 schedule of events)

Limestone cedar glades are globally unique and fragile habitats found primarily in Middle Tennessee. Viewed historically as wastelands, they support a plant community of highly specialized species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world.

What are the cedar glades?

Research on the cedar glades

Teaching from the cedar glades

Preserving the cedar glades

What is the Center for Cedar Glade Studies?

Video and Media

 


Site Last Updated: 11/19/2011