Family: Rubiaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida and the northern Bahamas.
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: This native herb is currently known in South Florida only from pine rocklands on the Miami Rock Ridge and the lower Florida Keys. Using modern NatureServe criteria, we re-ranked this as Imperiled in South Florida in April 2020.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
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Synonyms:
Hedyotis nigricans var. floridana; Houstonia filifolia, misapplied.
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Present
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
Native
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
Critically Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys
Florida Keys History and Distribution: Reported in
1913 by John Kunkel Small for pinelands and sandy places in the lower Keys. We consider this native and extant only on Big Pine Key in the lower Keys.
