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Floristic Inventory of the Florida Keys Database Online

Abutilon hirtum (Lam.) Sweet
Florida Keys Indian mallow

Abutilon hirtum

Family: Malvaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Shrub

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Native to the Old World tropics; widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere.

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Not Cultivated

Comments: For images, click on the USDA PLANTS link below.

FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence: Presumed Extirpated

FLORIDA KEYS Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys

Florida Keys History and Distribution: Not reported for the Florida Keys by John Kunkel Small in 1913, but reported by Small for the Keys in 1933. Possibly never well established. A specimen at FLAS needs to be examined.

Other data on Abutilon hirtum available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants





Abutilon hirtum has been reported for the following habitat in THE FLORIDA KEYS :
Disturbed Upland


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Abutilon hirtum