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Buchnera americana L.
American bluehearts

Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer

Family: Orobanchaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Herb

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Eastern North America, the West Indies, southern Mexico, Central America and South America (Trinidad).

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

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Other data on Buchnera americana available from :

	Occurrence	Native Status
Buchnera americana has been found in the following 99 conservation areas :
Alice C. Wainwright Park	Present	Native
Babcock Ranch Preserve	Present	Native
Bahia Honda State Park	Present	Native
Big Cypress National Preserve	Present	Native
Big Torch Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park	Present	Native
Bill Sadowski Park	Present	Native
Biscayne National Park	Reported
Caloosahatchee Creeks Preserve	Assumed to be Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer	Present	Native
Camp Owaissa Bauer Addition	Present	Native
Castellow Hammock Park	Present	Native
Cayo Costa State Park	Present	Native
Cedar Point Environmental Park	Present	Native
Cholee Park	Present	Native
Collier-Seminole State Park	Present	Native
Coral Reef Park	Present	Native
Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW)	Present	Native
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary	Present	Native
Curry Hammock State Park	Present	Native
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park	Present	Native
Danforth Park	Present	Native
Deering Estate at Cutler	Present	Native
Delray Oaks Natural 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
Florida Atlantic University Ecological Site	Present	Native
Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Fred C. Babcock-Cecil M. Webb Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Frenchman's Forest Natural Area	Present	Native
Frog Pond/L-31 N Transition Lands	Present	Native
Gasparilla Island State Park	Present	Native
George N. Avery Pineland	Present	Native
Gold Coast Railroad Museum	Present	Native
Gomez	Present	Native
Grassy Waters Preserve	Present	Native
Halpatiokee Regional Park	Present	Native
Hawk's Hammock Park	Present	Native
Hillsboro Pineland Natural Area	Present	Native
Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park	Present	Native
Ingram Pineland	Present	Native
J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge	Present	Native
J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park	Present	Native
Jonathan Dickinson State Park	Present	Native
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area		Native
Koreshan State Historic Site	Present	Native
Larry and Penny Thompson Park	Present	Native
Loxahatchee River Natural Area	Present	Native
Loxahatchee Slough Natural Area	Present	Native
Lucille Hammock	Present	Native
Ludlam Pineland	Present	Native
Luis Martinez United States Army Reserve Station, Richmond Pine Rocklands	Present	Native
Matheson Hammock Park	Present	Native
Middle Torch Hammocks Parcel 3063, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Milton E. Thompson Park	Present	Native
National Key Deer Refuge	Possibly Extirpated	Possibly Extirpated
Navy Wells Pineland Preserve	Present	Native
Ned Glenn Nature Preserve	Present	Native
Nicodemus Slough	Present	Native
Nixon Smiley Pineland Preserve	Present	Native
Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest, Okaloacoochee Slough Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Okaloacoochee Slough Wildlife Management Area - FWC, Okaloacoochee Slough Wildlife Management Area	Present	Native
Oleta River State Park	Present	Native
Pal-Mar	Present	Native
Picayune Strand State Forest	Present	Native
Pine Jog Environmental Sciences Center	Present	Native
Pine Ridge Sanctuary	Present	Native
Pine Shore Preserve	Present	Native
Pond Apple Slough Natural Area	Present	Native
Porter-Russell Pineland	Present	Native
Prairie Pines Preserve	Present	Native
Railhead Scrub Preserve	Present	Native
Rock Pit 39	Present	Native
Rockdale Pineland	Present	Native
Ron Ehmann Park	Present	Native
Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve	Present	Native
Royal Palm Beach Pines Natural Area	Present	Native
Savannas Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Scrub Oak Park	Present	Native
Seabranch Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Secret Woods Nature Center	Present	Native
Seminole Wayside Park	Present	Native
Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve	Present	Native
SOCSOUTH	Present	Native
South Dade Wetlands	Present	Native
Sugarloaf Hammocks, Florida Keys Wildlife and Environmental Area	Present	Native
Tigertail Beach County Park	Present	Native
Tree Island Park	Present	Native
Tropical Park	Present	Native
West Biscayne Pineland	Present	Native
Wild Turkey Strand Preserve	Present	Native
Yamato Scrub Natural Area	Present	Native
Yellow Fever Creek Preserve	Present	Native
Zoo Miami	Present	Native

	Occurrence	Native Status
Buchnera americana 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