Family: Fabaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Shrub
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Endemic to South Florida.
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
NatureServe Global Status:
G5T1
United States Federal Status:
Endangered
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Critically Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Critically Imperiled
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: For a review of
Dalea floridana throughout its range, see the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Species Profile. See also IRC’s book
Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann et al. 2002), pages 408-411, and report
Vascular plant species of management concern in Everglades National Park (Gann 2015), page 25. In January 2018, Susan Kolterman rediscovered this in Everglades National Park, near Mahogany Hammock, which was subsequently photographed by Roger Hammer who reported that he had observed that population before (email comm. 2018). This is near a locality previously reported for this as collected in 1951 by Ellsworth P. Killip (
41210 US), but that report was based on a database error at the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian (the collection is actually of
Aeschynomene pratensis).
See also Florida Natural Areas Inventory's
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida page (Chafin 2000).
Synonyms: Dalea carthagenensis var.
floridana.
