later, three of those ecologists discovered a wild population of the plant while conducting a botanical inventory of the Blue River watershed in Indiana. Prior to this, there were only five known natural populations of the plant; all were near the junction of Robertson, Nicholas, and Fleming counties in Kentucky, within a radius of Blue Licks Battlefield State Park. , the number of above-ground stems was listed at 73,620. References shortii Flora of Indiana Flora of Kentucky Plants described in 1842