Coastal Interdunal Swale
There are 45 taxa reported for the Coastal Interdunal Swale habitat
in the Florida Keys
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A short description of the Coastal Interdunal Swale community from The Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) is “linear wetlands between dunes on sandy barrier islands; inundated by local rainfall events; Panhandle to central peninsula; herbaceous or shrubby; sawgrass, hairawn muhly, broomsedge, seashore paspalum, Baker’s cordgrass, saltmeadow cordgrass, wax myrtle, coastalplain willow.” A full description can be found in FNAI's 2010 Guide to the Natural Communities of Florida.
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Habitats:
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Common Name: |
Florida Keys Native Status: |
| Acrostichum danaeifolium |
Giant leather fern |
Native
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| Agalinis maritima |
Saltmarsh false foxglove |
Native
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| Alternanthera flavescens |
Yellow joyweed |
Native
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| Andropogon glomeratus var. pumilus |
Common bushy bluestem |
Native
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| Baccharis halimifolia |
Saltbush, Groundsel tree, Sea-myrtle |
Native
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| Bacopa monnieri |
Water hyssop, Herb-of-grace |
Native
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| Batis maritima |
Saltwort, Turtleweed |
Native
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| Borrichia arborescens |
Green sea-oxeye-daisy, Tree seaside oxeye |
Native
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| Borrichia frutescens |
Silver sea-oxeye-daisy, Bushy seaside oxeye |
Native
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| Buchnera americana |
American bluehearts |
Native
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| Cenchrus incertus |
Coastal sandbur |
Native
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| Centella asiatica |
Coinwort, Spadeleaf |
Native
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| Chrysobalanus icaco |
Coco-plum |
Native
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| Cladium jamaicense |
Saw-grass, Jamaica swamp sawgrass |
Native
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| Conocarpus erectus |
Buttonwood |
Native
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| Cyperus ligularis |
Swamp flatsedge |
Native
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| Cyperus odoratus |
Fragrant flatsedge |
Native
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| Cyperus planifolius |
Flatleaf flatsedge |
Native
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| Eleocharis geniculata |
Canada spikerush |
Native
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| Eustachys petraea |
Common fingergrass, Pinewoods fingergrass |
Native
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| Eustoma exaltatum |
Marsh gentian, Seaside gentian, Catchfly prairie-gentian |
Native
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| Fimbristylis cymosa |
Hurricane sedge, Hurricanegrass |
Not Native, Naturalized
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| Funastrum clausum |
Whitevine, White twinevine |
Native
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| Kosteletzkya pentacarpos |
Virginia saltmarsh mallow |
Native
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| Ludwigia octovalvis |
Mexican primrosewillow |
Doubtfully Native
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| Mikania scandens |
Climbing hempweed, Climbing hempvine |
Native
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| Muhlenbergia capillaris |
Muhlygrass, Hairawn muhly |
Native
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| Opuntia stricta |
Erect pricklypear |
Native
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| Paspalum vaginatum |
Seashore paspalum |
Native
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| Phyla nodiflora |
Turkey tangle fogfruit, Capeweed, Frogfruit |
Native
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| Pluchea odorata |
Sweetscent |
Native
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| Rhabdadenia biflora |
Mangrove rubbervine, Mangrovevine |
Native
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| Rhizophora mangle |
Red mangrove |
Native
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| Rhynchospora colorata |
Starrush whitetop |
Native
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| Sabal palmetto |
Cabbage palm |
Native
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| Sabatia stellaris |
Rose-of-Plymouth |
Native
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| Sagittaria lancifolia |
Bulltongue arrowhead, lance-leaved arrowhead |
Possibly Extirpated
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| Samolus ebracteatus |
Water pimpernel, Limewater brookweed |
Native
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| Schinus terebinthifolius |
Brazilian-pepper |
Not Native, Naturalized
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| Serenoa repens |
Saw palmetto |
Native
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| Sesuvium portulacastrum |
Perennial sea-purslane, Shoreline seapurslane |
Native
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| Sporobolus virginicus |
Seashore dropseed |
Native
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| Symphyotrichum tenuifolium |
Brace’s aster |
Native
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| Thelypteris kunthii |
Southern shield fern |
Native
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| Typha domingensis |
Southern cat-tail |
Native
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