Gordon C Tucker
Office: 3027 - Life Sciences
Phone: 217-581-6240
Email: gctucker@eiu.edu
Dr. Tucker's Web Site
A vascular plant systematist, Dr. Tucker is a specialist on the sedge family. He serves as curator of the Stover-Ebinger Herbarium. He has strong interests in field botany and has conducted inventories for The Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources and other agencies. His teaching interests include Plant Taxonomy, Dendrology, Wetland and Aquatic Plants, Economic Botany and Ethnobotany. He co-teaches a study abroad course, Ethnobotany in China, with Dr. Zhiwei Liu. He has recently published papers and monographs on the sedges of North America, Venezuela, and Brazil. Current projects include studies of the sedge genera Cyperus, Fuirena, and Carex for the Flora of China, in collaboration with the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Chinese National Academy of Sciences.
Publications
Tucker, G.C. 2009 onwards. Cleomaceae. In: Neotropikey. Version 1 (Aug. 2009). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.kew.org/science/tropamerica/neotropikey.htm
Tucker, G.C., B. Edgin, J.E. Ebinger, & N. Owens. 2009. Botanical Inventory of Wildcat Hollow State Forest, Effingham County, Illinois. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 101: 167-185.
Zhang, M. L. & G.C. Tucker. 2008. Capparaceae. In: Wu, C. Y., Raven, P. H. & Hong, D. Y. (eds.), Flora of China 7: 433-450. Science Press, Beijing and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
Tucker, G.C. 2008. Cyperus alvesii (Cyperaceae), a new species from northeastern Brazil. Harvard Papers in Botany 13: 237-240.
Tucker, G.C. 2007. Helictotrichon Besser. in Barkworth, M.E., K.M. Capels, S. Long, & M.B. Piep (eds.), Flora of North America, north of Mexico. Poaceae, part 1: 701-702. New York and Oxford.
Yang, Q. E. & Tucker, G. C. 2007. Elatinaceae. Pp. 55-56 in: Wu, Z. Y., Raven, P. H. & Hong, D. Y., (eds.), Flora of China vol. 13 (Clusiaceae through Araliaceae). Science Press, Beijing and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
Tucker, G.C. 2007. Systematics of Cyperus L. section Diffusi Kunth (Cyperaceae) in the Neotropics. in Barbosa, L.M. and N.A. Santos (eds.), A botânica no Brasil: pesquisa, ensino e políticas públicas ambientais. Soc. Bot. Bras. Bull. 238A: 311-314. São Paulo.
Conference Presentations
Botanical Inventory of Prairie Ridge State Natural Area, Jasper County, Illinois. 2007
Gordon Tucker
Systematics of Cyperus L. (Cyperaceae) in Brazil. 2007
John Ebinger, Gordon Tucker, Nick Owens and William McClain
Glacial Drift Hill Prairies of the Prairie Peninsula. 2006
Bob Edgin, Gordon C. Tucker and John E. Ebinger.
Vegetation and Flora of American Beech Woods Nature Preserve, Clark County, IL. 2003
