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Iresine diffusa Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
Juba’s bush, Bloodleaf

Copyright by: James Johnson, 2014
In habitat, Everglades National Park, Florida
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Family: Amaranthaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Herb

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Southeastern United States, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America.

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Secure

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Native

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

Comments: Visit our Natives For Your Neighborhood website for more information and images. See also a 2022 post on the Treasure Coast Natives blog on the naming history of Iresine diffusa and tips for distinguishing between male and female flowers.

Synonyms: I. paniculata, Celosia paniculata.

Other data on Iresine diffusa available from :

	Occurrence	Native Status
Iresine diffusa has been found in the following 97 conservation areas :
A.D. Doug Barnes Park	Present	Native
Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Atlantic Dunes Park	Present	Native
Big Cypress National Preserve	Present	Native
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park	Present	Native
Biscayne National Park	Present	Native
Biscayne National Park, Florida Keys Section	Present	Native
Blazing Star Preserve	Present	Native
Blowing Rocks Preserve	Present	Native
Caloosahatchee Creeks Preserve	Present	Native
Cape Romano - Ten Thousand Islands Aquatic Preserve	Present	Native
Cayo Costa State Park	Present	Native
Collier-Seminole State Park	Present	Native
Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW)	Present	Native
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary	Present	Native
County Line Scrub, Miami-Dade County	Present	Native
Crandon Park	Present	Native
Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge	Reported
Curry Hammock State Park	Present	Native
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park	Reported
Deering Estate at Cutler	Present	Native
Delray Beach Municipal Beach	Present	Native
Delray Oaks Natural Area	Present	Native
Dolphin Center and Dolphin Center Addition	Present	Native
Dove Creek Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
Dupuis Reserve	Present	Native
Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Everglades National Park	Present	Native
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Florida Atlantic University Ecological Site	Present	Native
Frenchman's Forest Natural Area	Present	Native
Fuchs Hammock Preserve	Present	Native
Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association tract A
Gopher Tortoise Preserve	Present	Native
Greynolds Park	Present	Native
Gulfstream Park	Present	Native
Hickey Creek Mitigation Park Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
High Ridge Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
Highlands Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
Hillsboro Pineland Natural Area	Present	Native
Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Hobe Sound Sandhill	Present	Native
Holey Land Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park	Present	Native
J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
John D. MacArthur Beach State Park	Present	Native
Jonathan Dickinson State Park	Present	Native
Juno Dunes Natural Area	Present	Native
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area	Present	Native
Jupiter Ridge Natural Area	Present	Native
Kendall Indian Hammocks Park	Present	Native
LaBelle Nature Park	Present	Native
Lake Okeechobee Marshes	Present	Native
Lake Okeechobee Ridge	Present	Native
Larry and Penny Thompson Park	Present	Native
Loggerhead Park	Present	Native
Long Key Natural Area & Nature Center	Present	Native
Long Key State Park	Assumed to be Present	Native
Loxahatchee Slough Natural Area	Present	Native
Matheson Hammock Park	Present	Native
Military Trail Natural Area	Present	Native
Miramar Pineland	Present	Native
Mound Key Archaeological State Park	Present	Native
National Key Deer Refuge	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
Nicodemus Slough	Present	Native
Nixon Smiley Pineland Addition	Present	Native
Nixon Smiley Pineland Preserve	Present	Native
Ocean Ridge Hammock Park	Present	Native
Pal-Mar	Present	Native
Peck Lake Park	Present	Native
Phipps Ocean Park	Present	Native
Picayune Strand State Forest	Present	Native
Pine Island Ridge Natural Area	Present	Native
Prairie Pines Preserve	Present	Native
R. Hardy Matheson Preserve	Present	Native
Red Reef Park, including Gumbo Limbo Nature Center	Present	Native
Rocky Point Hammock	Present	Native
Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve	Present	Native
Rosemary Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
San Carlos Bay - Bunche Beach Preserve	Present	Native
Savannas Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Seabranch Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Seacrest Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Stump Pass Beach State Park	Present	Native
Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Tigertail Beach County Park	Present	Native
Tree Tops Park	Present	Native
Twin Rivers	Present	Native
Warbler Wetland Natural Area	Present	Native
Wild Turkey Strand Preserve	Present	Native
Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park	Assumed to be Present	Native
Yamato Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
Yellow Fever Creek Preserve	Assumed to be Present	Native

	Occurrence	Native Status
Iresine diffusa has been found in the following 11 counties :
Broward County		Native
Charlotte County		Native
Collier County		Native
Glades County		Native
Hendry County		Native
Lee County		Native
Martin County		Native
Miami-Dade County		Native
Monroe County (Keys)		Native
Monroe County (Mainland)		Native
Palm Beach County		Native